Faraj, Sultan
Farhi, Haim, 34.1, 35.1, 35.2
Farouk, King of Egypt, 37.1, 50.1, 52.1
Farran, Major Roy
Farrukh
Fast Hotel, 43.1, 44.1, 45.1, 46.1, 46.2, 49.1
Fatah, 53.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
al-Fatat
Fatima (daughter of the Prophet), 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 45.1
Fatimid dynasty, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4
Fausta, Empress, 15.1, 15.2
Felix, Antonius, 12.1, 12.2
Fellowes, Cornelius
Ferdinand, King of Aragon
Field of Blood, 11.1, 16.1
Filastin, 44.1
Final Solution, 32.1, 48.1, 49.1, 49.2
Finn, James, 37.1, 37.2, 37.3, 37.4, 39.1, 48.1
First Wall, 8.1, 11.1
Firyal, Princess, 52.1, 53.1
Fiscus Judaicus, 14.1, 14.2
Fisk, Pliny
flagellation, 11.1, 11.2
Flaubert, Gustave, 37.1, 37.2
Fleming, James
Florence
Flourishing Edifice
Foley, Major, 43.1, 43.2
Ford, Henry
Forster, E. M.
France, 32.1, 32.2, 33.1, 34.1, 36.1, 37.1, 37.2
and division of Middle East, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 47.1, 47.2
fall of
and Suez crisis
and Zionism
Francis I, King of France
Frankish customs
Franklin, Benjamin
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
Franz Joseph, Emperor
Frederick Barbarossa, Emperor
Frederick II, Emperor, King of Sicily, 28.1, 46.1, 51.1
Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, 39.1, 42.1
Frederick of Regensburg
Frederick of Swabia, Duke
French Revolution, 33.1, 34.1, 37.1, 42.1
Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden
Fuad Pasha, Grand Vizier
Fulcher of Chartres
Fulk the Black, Count of Anjou, 20.1, 23.1
Fulk, Viscount of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2
fundamentalism, 10.1, 29.1, 48.1, 50.1, epl.1
Gabriel, Archangel
Galen
Galerius, Emperor
Gallipoli
Gallus Caesar
Galveston Plan
Gamaliel VI
Ganzak
Garabedian, Yessayi, Armenian Patriarch
Garden of Eden
Garden of Gethsemane, 11.1, 16.1, 53.1
Garden Tomb
Gate of the Chain, 14.1, 28.1, 29.1, 29.2, 31.1
Gate of the Cotton-Merchants
Gate of the Divine Presence
Gath
Gaul, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1
Gaza, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 17.1, 24.1, 28.1, 32.1, 33.1, 45.1, 46.1, 47.1, 48.1, 50.1
and Hamas and Intifada, 48.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
and Israeli war, 51.1, epl.1
Geba
Gedaliah, 5.1, 33.1
Gehenna, 4.1, 29.1
Gemaraiah, son of Shaphan
Gemellus
Geneva
Genghis Khan, 15.1, 29.1, 30.1, 42.1
Genseric, King of the Vandals
St George, 20.1, 25.1
St George’s Cathedral
St George’s School, 43.1, 48.1
George V, King, 35.1, 40.1, 46.1
George II, King of Greece
Georgia
Georgians, 11.1, 29.1, 30.1, 32.1
Ger court, 52.1, epl.1
Germanicus
Germany, 28.1, 42.1, 42.2, 45.1, 46.1
Nazi Germany, 48.1, 49.1, 49.2
Gerold, Patriarch
Gessius Florus
Gezer, 3.1, 3.2
al-Ghadiya, Abdel Latif
al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid
Ghosh, Jaber Abu
Gibeon (Tell al-Ful), 2.1, 3.1
Gihon Spring, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
Gladstone, William
Glaphyra
Glubb, General Sir John (Glubb Pasha), 51.1, 52.1, 53.1
Gnostic Gospels, 11.1, 14.1
God-fearers, 12.1, 12.2
Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lorraine, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 23.1, 26.1, 35.1
Goedsche, Hermann
Gogol, Nikolai, 37.1, 37.2
Goitein, S. D.
Golan, prl.1, 8.1, 14.1
gold, 3.1, 4.1
Golden Calf
Golden Gate, 16.1, 16.2, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2, 43.1, epl.1
Goldsmith, Frank
Golgotha, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 40.1
Goliath
Goliath’s Spring
Goodman, Alan
Gordon, General Charles ‘Chinese’
Goren, Rabbi Shlomo, 53.1, epl.1
Gort, Field Marshal Viscount, John
Gospel of Judas
Gospel of Peter
Gospel of Philip
Goths
Government House, 47.1, 48.1, 48.2, 49.1, 50.1, 51.1, 53.1
Grabar, Oleg, 52.1, epl.1
Graham, Stephen, 41.1, 43.1
Grammar School
Granada, 20.1, 30.1
Grand Mufti, see Husseni, Amin
Grand New Hotel
Grant, President Ulysses S.
Gray, Colonel Nicol
Greece, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 36.1, 49.1, 49.2
Greek Fire, 21.1, 21.2
Greek language
Greek love
Greeks, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
see also this page
Greenberg, Raphael
Gregory IX, Pope
Gregory of Nyssa, Saint, 15.1, 15.2
Grodno
Gulf of Aqaba
Gur, Colonel Motta
Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1
Habiru
Hadassah Hospital, 48.1, 50.1, 51.1, 53.1
hadith, 18.1
Hadrian, Emperor, 14.1, 41.1
Hafiz Pasha
Haganah, 47.1, 48.1, 49.1, 49.2, 50.1, 50.2, 50.3, 51.1, 52.1, epl.1
Haggai, prophet
Haifa, 48.1, 50.1, 51.1
Hajim Bey
al-Hakim, Caliph, 20.1, 20.2
Halevi, Judah
Hama
Hamas, 48.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
hammam bathhouses
Hammurabi
Hamza
Handel, George Frideric, 8.1, 46.1
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Hannibal, 7.1, 7.2
Hanukkah, 8.1, 11.1, 46.1
Haram al-Sharif, 10.1, 17.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 39.1, 48.1, 52.1, 53.1
archives
daily rituals
Husseini burials
and Islamic sultanate, 26.1, 27.1, 28.1
negotiations and access
and Parker fiasco
al-Harawi, Ali
Haredim
Harel Brigade, 50.1, 51.1
Harff, Arnold von
al-Harizi, Judah
Harold, King
Haroun al-Rashid, Caliph
Harris, Air Marshal Sir Arthur
Hasan bin Ali, 18.1, 45.1
Hasidic Jews, 7.1, 11.1, 40.1, 40.2, 42.1, 44.1, 51.1, 52.1, 52.2
Hatikvah, 46.1, 51.1
Hazael, King of Damascus
Hazor, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Hebrew University, 44.1, 45.1, 46.1, 48.1, 49.1
Hebrews
Hebron, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 14.1, 28.1, 30.1, 36.1, 37.1, 37.2, 48.1, 49.1, 52.1
Heine, Heinrich
Hejaz, 44.1, 45.1, 45.2, 46.1
Helena, Empress, 15.1, 15.2
Helena, Queen of Adiabene
Henry VI, Emperor
Henry II, King, 24.1, 25.1,
27.1
Henry III, King, 28.1, 46.1
Henry IV, King
Henry V, King
Henry VIII, King, 15.1, 29.1, 31.1, 32.1
Henry of Champagne, King of Jerusalem, 27.1, 28.1
Henry, King of the Romans
Hensmans Hotel
Heraclius, Emperor, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 19.1, 23.1
Heraclius, Patriarch, 22.1, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3
Hermann of Salza
Herod the Great, King, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 18.1
his death
and massacre of the innocents
rebuilding of Jerusalem
Herod Agrippa I, King, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Herod Agrippa II, King, prl.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
Herod Antipas, Tetrarch, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1
Herod Archelaus, Ethnarch, 10.1, 10.2
Herod Philip, Tetrarch, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1
Herod, King of Chalcis
Herod’s Gate, 21.1, 21.2, 50.1
Herod’s Palace, prl.1, 10.1, 10.2
Herod’s Tomb
Herodias, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Herodium fortress, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1
Herodotus, 6.1, 6.2
Hershell, Rabbi David
Herzl, Theodore, 42.1, 51.1, epl.1
Hess, Moses
Hess, Rudolf
Hethoum II, King of Armenia
Hezekiah, King, 4.1, 39.1
Hezekiah’s Wall
Higher Arab Committee
Hilkiah
Hill of Evil Counsel
Hillel
Himmler, Heinrich, 49.1, 51.1
Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von
Hindenburg (Allenby’s horse)
Hindu Kush
Hippicus tower, 10.1, 14.1
Hippocrates
Hiram, King of Tyre
Hirsch, Baron Maurice de
Hitler, Adolf, 8.1, 28.1, 43.1, 44.1, 46.1, 48.1, 48.2, 49.1, 49.2, 49.3
meeting with Grand Mufti
rise to power
Hittites, 1.1, 3.1
Hoess, Rudolf
Hoffenstahl, Captain
Holland
Holocaust, 7.1, 44.1, 44.2, 45.1, 48.1, 49.1, 49.2, 50.1, 52.1
survivors
Yad Vashem memorial, 45.1, 52.1
Holy Lance, 15.1, 16.1, 21.1
Holy of Holies, prl.1, prl.2, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, epl.1
and Arab conquest, 17.1, 18.1
Holy Sepulchre, see Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Holy War Army, 49.1, 50.1
Homer
Homs
Hood, Lord
Horn, Father Eleazar
Horns of Hattin, 25.1, 26.1
Hoshayahu
House of Wisdom, 19.1, 20.1
Hugh, Count of Jaffa
Hungary
hunting
Hurcombe, Sergeant Fred
Hurva Synagogue, 33.1, 36.1, 38.1, 38.2, 51.1, epl.1
Hussars of Israel
Hussein, bin Ali (grandson of the Prophet)
Hussein, King of Hejaz (Sherif Hussein), 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 47.1
his tomb, 51.1, 52.1
Hussein, King of Jordan, 51.1, 52.1, 52.2, epl.1, epl.2
and Six Day War
Hussein, Saddam, 26.1, 52.1
Husseini family, 33.1, 36.1, 40.1, 40.2, 44.1, 46.1, 47.1, 47.2, 48.1, 52.1, 52.2, 53.1
Abd al-Kadir al-Husseini, 49.1, 50.1, epl.1
Adnan al-Husseini
Faisal al-Husseini, 50.1, epl.1, epl.2
Hussein Effendi al-Husseini, 43.1, 43.2, 44.1, 44.2, 46.1, 46.2
Ismail al-Husseini
Jamal al-Husseini
Kamal al-Husseini, Grand Mufti
Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Husseini
Musa al-Husseini
Musa Kazem al-Husseini, 46.1, 47.1, 47.2, 48.1, 49.1
Rabah Effendi al-Husseini
Rafiq al-Husseini
Said al-Husseini
Umar al-Husseini
Uthman al-Husseini
al-Husseini, Grand Mufti Haj Amin, 46.1, 47.1, 48.1, 48.2, 48.3, 48.4, 50.1
and Arab revolt
meeting with Hitler
political decline, 51.1, 51.2, 52.1
Huxley, Aldous
Hyrcanus the Tobiad, 7.1, 7.2
Hyrcanus II, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Ibn al-Arabi, 20.1, 21.1
Ibn al-Qaysarani
Ibn Asakir
Ibn Battutah
Ibn Ishaq
Ibn Khaldun, 18.1, 18.2, 30.1
Ibn Killis, Grand Vizier, 20.1, 20.2
Ibn Shaddad, Baha al-Din, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1
Ibn Taymiyya
Ibn Tulun, Ahmed
Ibn Unain
Ibn Wasil, 28.1, 28.2
Ibrahim Pasha ‘the Red’, 36.1, 37.1
Idumeans, 9.1, 13.1
al-Ikhshid, Muhammad Ibn Tughi
Ikhshid tombs
Il-Ghazi, 20.1, 22.1
Imad al-Din, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 27.1
Imperial Hotel, 48.1, epl.1
Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, 41.1, 43.1
India, 6.1, 32.1, 33.1, 45.1
Indus, river, 7.1, 7.2
Industrial Revolution
Intifadas, epl.1, epl.2
Iran, 9.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 49.1
Jewish community, 4.1, 6.1
Iraq, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 18.1, 18.2, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 43.1, 45.1
and Arab conquest, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2
and Arab Revolt, 45.1, 45.2
and division of Middle East, 47.1, 48.1, 49.1, 50.1
and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 49.1, 49.2
and Islamic sultanate, 25.1, 26.1, 26.2, 27.1
and Israeli wars, 51.1, 53.1
Jewish community, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1, 52.1
and Persian conquest, 16.1, 16.2
Iraq War, 21.1, 45.1
Ireland
Ireneos, Patriarch
Irgun Zvai Leumi, 48.1, 49.1, 49.2, 49.3, 50.1, 50.2, 50.3, 51.1, 51.2, epl.1
Isaac, son of Abraham, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1
Isaac Angelus
Isabella, Queen of Castile
Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem, 27.1, 28.1
Isaiah, prophet, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Isfahan
Ishbosheth
Islam, prl.1, 52.1
early, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
and offers of conversion
Ismail, Imam
Ismail, Shah
Israel
and Assyrian conquest
coinage, 13.1, 14.1
and dysfunctional democracy
founding of modern state, 36.1, 51.1
and the Maccabees
revolt against Romans, 13.1, 14.1
and Six Day War
and Suez crisis
union and split with Judah, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
war of independence
Israel Defence Forces, 49.1, 53.1
Israelites, 1.1, 3.1
Lost Tribes, 4.1, 32.1, 35.1, 37.1
Israelovsky Regiment
Israfil, Archangel of Death
Israiliyyat, 17.1
Istanbul, 31.1, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 33.1, 34.1, 36.1, 37.1, 37.2, 39.1, 40.1, 41.1, 42.1, 43.1, 43.2, 44.1, 45.1
, 45.2, 46.1, 49.1
Italy, 9.1, 9.2, 15.1, 28.1, 28.2, 32.1
Italian Jews
Iturea
Ivan the Terrible
ivory
Izzat Bey
Jabiya
Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 46.1, 46.2, 47.1, 48.1, 50.1, epl.1
Jacob (Israel)
Jacob Baradeus
Jacobson, Eddie, 50.1, 51.1
Jaffa, 28.1, 28.2, 33.1, 36.1, 37.1, 39.1, 40.1, 44.1, 46.1, 49.1, 49.2
and Crusades, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2
and Jerusalem railway
and Napoleonic invasion, 33.1, 34.1
and Parker fiasco
see also Joppa
Jaffa Gate, 11.1, 21.1, 28.1, 30.1, 31.1, 35.1, 37.1, 37.2, 38.1, 39.1, 40.1, 42.1, 43.1, 44.1, 44.2, 46.1, 46.2, 48.1, 48.2, 49.1, 50.1, 50.2, 51.1, epl.1
Jaffa Road, 39.1, 40.1, 43.1, 46.1
St James, 12.1, 12.2
St James the Just (James, brother of Jesus), 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1
St James’s Cathedral, 24.1, 30.1, 34.1
St Jameses Cathedral, 12.1, 16.1, 29.1
James I, King
James, King of Aragon
James, brother of Jesus, see St James the Just
Jameson Raid
Jamra
Jaqmaq, Sultan, 30.1, 30.2
al-Jarallah, Sheikh Husam, see Jarallah
Jason
Jawhariyyeh, Wasif, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3, 44.1, 44.2, 46.1, 46.2, 47.1, 48.1, 48.2, 49.1, 49.2, 50.1
Jawhar al-Siqili
Jazzar Pasha, Ahmet
Jebusites, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Jefferson, Thomas, President
Jeharah, King of Judah
Jehoash, King
Jehoiakim, King, 5.1, 5.2
Jehoshaphat Gate
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jehu, King
Jem Sultan, Crown Prince
Jemal Pasha, 44.1, 44.2, 45.1, 45.2, 45.3, 46.1, 46.2, 52.1
Jeremiah, prophet, 5.1, 5.2, 11.1, 11.2, 32.1
Jericho, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1, 16.1, 21.1, 29.1, 40.1, 50.1, 51.1
Jeroboam
St Jerome, 15.1, 16.1
Jerusalem
Albanian conquest
American obsession with, 36.1, 37.1
Arab conquest, 17.1, 18.1
and archaeology, 39.1, 43.1
and Assyrian threat
Babylonian destruction, prl.1, prl.2, 5.1
British conquest
British withdrawal
Byzantine city
canine pogrom
Christian pilgrims, 20.1, 23.1, 30.1, 36.1
Crusader city, 23.1, 24.1
Crusader conquest
David’s conquest
divided city
earthquakes, 15.1, 15.2, 18.1, 20.1
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