Harold, King, 201
Haroun al-Rashid, Caliph, 189–90
Harris, Air Marshal Sir Arthur, 450
Hasan bin Ali, 180n, 403n
Hasidic Jews, 22, 64, 100n, 359, 375n, 364, 375n, 399, 479, 486, 487n
Hatikvah, 425, 474–5
Hazael, King of Damascus, 32n
Hazor, 22, 26, 29n
Hebrew University, 394, 410, 425, 440, 450
Hebrews, 15–17
Hebron, 16, 21, 24, 65, 137, 270, 288n, 329, 333, 346, 438, 449, 483
Heine, Heinrich, xx
Hejaz, 396, 403, 406, 422
Helena, Empress, 143, 145–7
Helena, Queen of Adiabene, 100–1
Henry VI, Emperor, 263n
Henry II, King, 235n, 245n, 257
Henry III, King, 269–70, 422n
Henry IV, King, 285n
Henry V, King, 285n
Henry VIII, King, 146n, 278n, 292, 297
Henry of Champagne, King of Jerusalem, 260n, 265n
Henry, King of the Romans, 270n
Hensmans Hotel, 457
Heraclius, Emperor, 163–5, 172–3, 179, 184, 189, 227
Heraclius, Patriarch, 219n, 244, 245n, 246, 249–50, 254, 256
Hermann of Salza, 270
Herod the Great, King, 3, 5, 9, 14, 27n, 67n, 71, 74–92, 111, 123, 146n, 185
his death, 90–2
and massacre of the innocents, 91
rebuilding of Jerusalem, 82–7
Herod Agrippa I, King, 91n, 111–16, 119, 126
Herod Agrippa II, King, 5–6, 9, 115–16, 119–24, 131–2
Herod Antipas, Tetrarch, 90, 92–6, 98–100, 104–5, 110–12, 119, 122
Herod Archelaus, Ethnarch, 91n, 92–3
Herod Philip, Tetrarch, 93, 96, 111–12
Herod, King of Chalcis, 115–16
Herod’s Gate, 208, 211, 468
Herod’s Palace, 8, 84, 93
Herod’s Tomb, 92n
Herodias, 95–6, 98, 111–12
Herodium fortress, 79n, 92, 136
Herodotus, 47, 49
Hershell, Rabbi David, 345
Herzl, Theodore, 373–82, 475, 503n
Hess, Moses, 374
Hess, Rudolf, 411n
Hethoum II, King of Armenia, 279
Hezekiah, King, 34–9, 355
Hezekiah’s Wall, 69n
Higher Arab Committee, 448
Hilkiah, 40
Hill of Evil Counsel, 440
Hillel, 149
Himmler, Heinrich, 456, 480
Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von, 439n
Hindenburg (Allenby’s horse), 419–20
Hindu Kush, 50
Hippicus tower, 84, 132
Hippocrates, 190n
Hiram, King of Tyre, 26
Hirsch, Baron Maurice de, 382
Hitler, Adolf, 65n, 270n, 382n, 400, 423n, 436, 447, 450, 452–5, 459, 461
meeting with Grand Mufti, 454–5
rise to power, 439–41
Hittites, 14–15, 23
Hoess, Rudolf, 408
Hoffenstahl, Captain, 389–90
Holland, 294–5
Holocaust, 59, 395, 400, 408n, 440n, 455n, 457, 463, 487
survivors, 463–4
Yad Vashem memorial, 454n, 483n
Holy Lance, 152, 162, 209
Holy of Holies, 3, 6–7, 27, 62, 72–3, 85–7, 112, 125, 129–30, 510
and Arab conquest, 175–6, 179
Holy Sepulchre, see Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Holy War Army, 448–9, 470
Homer, 45
Homs, 405
Hood, Lord, 322
Horn, Father Eleazar, 309–10
Horns of Hattin, 246, 248
Hoshayahu, 42n
House of Wisdom, 190, 196
Hugh, Count of Jaffa, 222
Hungary, 342
hunting, 233
Hurcombe, Sergeant Fred, 418
Hurva Synagogue, 308n, 330, 349, 352n, 480, 511
Hussars of Israel, 343n
Hussein, bin Ali (grandson of the Prophet), 180
Hussein, King of Hejaz (Sherif Hussein), 402–3, 405–6, 415, 432
his tomb, 479, 484
Hussein, King of Jordan, 477, 484–5, 488–90, 505, 507–8, 515
and Six Day War, 490–6
Hussein, Saddam, 251, 485
Husseini family, 308–9, 329, 360–2, 364, 394, 423, 429, 434, 439, 483, 489, 491
Abd al-Kadir al-Husseini, 449, 452, 468–71, 505n
Adnan al-Husseini, 519n
Faisal al-Husseini, 470, 506–7, 518n
Hussein Effendi al-Husseini, 385, 391, 399, 401, 417–18, 420
Ismail al-Husseini, 385
Jamal al-Husseini, 453
Kamal al-Husseini, Grand Mufti Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Husseini, 307–8
Musa al-Husseini, 481–2
Musa Kazem al-Husseini, 424, 430, 433, 445, 449
Rabah Effendi al-Husseini, 364–5
Rafiq al-Husseini, 518n
Said al-Husseini, 468
Umar al-Husseini, 362
Uthman al-Husseini, 385
al-Husseini, Grand Mufti Haj Amin, 418, 429–31, 435–9, 441, 443, 445–55, 468–9
and Arab revolt, 448–54
meeting with Hitler, 454–5
political decline, 478, 481, 484–5
Huxley, Aldous, xix
Hyrcanus the Tobiad, 56–7, 61n
Hyrcanus II, 70–2, 74–6, 79, 81
Ibn al-Arabi, 203, 213n
Ibn al-Qaysarani, 233
Ibn Asakir, 183
Ibn Battutah, 281
Ibn Ishaq, 172n
Ibn Khaldun, xviii, xxv, 179n, 186, 283–4
Ibn Killis, Grand Vizier, 193–4, 200n
Ibn Shaddad, Baha al-Din, 251n, 252, 261–4
Ibn Taymiyya, 281
Ibn Tulun, Ahmed, 190–1
Ibn Unain, 253
Ibn Wasil, 265, 270
Ibrahim Pasha ‘the Red’, 326–30, 333–4
Idumeans, 71, 125
al-Ikhshid, Muhammad Ibn Tughi, 191
Ikhshid tombs, 193n
Il-Ghazi, 203, 219–20
Imad al-Din, 247, 251n, 254, 258
Imperial Hotel, 444, 518
Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, 368, 386n
India, 50n, 304, 311, 403
Indus, river, 54, 57n
Industrial Revolution, 331
Intifadas, 503–4, 507
Iran, 73, 180n, 181, 186–7, 454
Jewish community, 34n, 48n
Iraq, 30, 36, 64, 73, 101, 134, 150, 180n, 186, 218, 234, 236, 382n, 404
and Arab conquest, 172, 178, 180–1
and Arab Revolt, 403, 405
and division of Middle East, 432, 446, 454, 467–8
and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 448, 454
and Islamic sultanate, 243, 251, 253, 262
and Israeli wars, 477, 494
Jewish community, 34n, 48n, 133, 486
and Persian conquest, 161, 163
Iraq War, 209, 406
Ireland, 409
Ireneos, Patriarch, 520–1
Irgun Zvai Leumi, 439, 450, 453, 457–60, 464–7, 470, 472, 475, 479, 503n
Isaac, son of Abraham, 16, 27n, 39n, 86
Isaac Angelus, 263
Isabella, Queen of Castile, 293–4
Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem, 256n, 265n
Isaiah, prophet, 33–5, 38, 95, 97, 100–1
Isfahan, 283
Ishbosheth, 21
Islam, 10, 483
early, 170–1, 174, 176, 178, 180–1, 184
and offers of conversion, 248–9
Ismail, Imam, 194
Ismail, Shah, 288
Israel
and Assyrian conquest, 31–4
coinage, 124, 136
and dysfunctional democracy, 511n
founding of modern state, xxiv, 326, 475–6
and the Maccabees, 65n
revolt
against Romans, 123–4, 136
and Six Day War, 492–8
and Suez crisis, 490
union and split with Judah, 21–2, 25, 30–1
war of independence, 458n, 476–82
Israel Defence Forces, 452, 491
Israelites, xviii, 15–20, 25–9
Lost Tribes, 34, 297n, 322, 337–8
Israelovsky Regiment, 311n
Israfil, Archangel of Death, 185n
Israiliyyat, 176
Istanbul, 293, 295–6, 302–3, 306, 311, 315n, 327, 330, 333–5, 342–3, 356, 360–1, 370, 377, 389, 393–4, 400, 402, 405n, 416n, 454n
Italy, 71, 73, 143, 269, 270n, 295
Italian Jews, 454
Iturea, 69
Ivan the Terrible, 146n
ivory, 28
Izzat Bey, 417
Jabiya, 174
Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 421, 423, 428–31, 437–9, 458–9, 499
Jacob (Israel), 16
Jacob Baradeus, 157n
Jacobs, Julius, 426n
Jacobson, Eddie, 461, 473
Jaffa, 268, 271, 310, 329, 339, 355–6, 363, 394, 418, 448, 450
and Crusades, 209–10, 215–16, 219, 249, 258, 262
and Jerusalem railway, 348–9
and Napoleonic invasion, 312, 316–18
and Parker fiasco, 391–2
see also Joppa
Jaffa Gate, 104, 208, 268, 288, 292n, 319, 343, 347, 349, 356, 363–4, 377, 384, 397, 400, 418–21, 424, 441, 444, 451–3, 469, 473, 479, 519
Jaffa Road, 356, 363, 384, 417–18
St James, 115, 119n
St James the Just (James, brother of Jesus), 107, 109–10, 115, 117–19, 124, 144
St James’s Cathedral, 233n, 285, 318n
St Jameses Cathedral, 119n, 162, 277
James I, King, 300
James, King of Aragon, 279
James, brother of Jesus, see St James the Just
Jameson Raid, 389n
Jamra, 188
Jaqmaq, Sultan, 286, 287n
al-Jarallah, Sheikh Husam, 481 see Jarallah
Jason, 61
Jawhariyyeh, Wasif, xxv, 384–5, 388, 390, 395, 397–401, 417, 419–20, 429, 435, 444–5, 449, 453, 456–7, 471–4
Jawhar al-Siqili, 193
Jazzar Pasha, Ahmet, 315–18
Jebusites, 15, 18, 21–2
Jefferson, Thomas, President, 336
Jeharah, King of Judah, 31
Jehoash, King, 32–3
Jehoiakim, King, 41, 45
Jehoshaphat Gate, 240
Jehovah’s Witnesses, 337n
Jehu, King, 32
Jem Sultan, Crown Prince, 288
Jemal Pasha, 395–8, 400, 403, 407–8, 414, 416, 419, 489
Jeremiah, prophet, 41–3, 44n, 100n, 101, 301
Jericho, 13–14, 17n, 43, 71, 79–80, 84n, 90–1, 125, 163, 210, 276, 363, 465, 479
Jeroboam, 29–30
St Jerome, 151–4, 160
Jerusalem
Albanian conquest, 326–30
American obsession with, 329n, 336–9
Arab conquest, 173–7, 181–6
and archaeology, 354–6, 390
and Assyrian threat, 36–8
Babylonian destruction, 1, 9, 42–4
British conquest, 416–26
British withdrawal, 465–71
Byzantine city, 159–60
canine pogrom, 307–8
Christian pilgrims, 200–1, 226–7, 284–5, 327–8
Crusader city, 225–32, 235–6
Crusader conquest, 203–20
David’s conquest, 21–23
divided city, 481–9
earthquakes, 149–50, 155, 187, 200
evangelists and visitors, 331–58
Fatimid conquest, 193–5
and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 448–54
Hadrian’s city, 135n
as heavenly city, 10, 33–4, 117, 133, 140, 197
Hellenization, 59–62
Herod’s rebuilding, 82–7
Hezekiah’s city, 35
Islamic city, 264–5
Islamic conquest, 249–50, 253–4
and Israeli rule, 503–23
Kaiser’s visit, 377–80
and life of Jesus, 98–106
Mamluk conquest, 271–2, 276–88
modern life, 515–20
modernist city, 440–5
and Mongol raids, 272, 275, 277–8
multiplicity of names, 176n, 521–2
nineteenth-century city, 359–66
Ottoman conquest, 291–3
Persian conquest, 161–4
Persian rebuilding, 49–51
riots, 429–30, 436–8, 506–7, 509–10
Roman destruction, 1–10
Roman restoration, 145–6, 149–50
Roman suppression, 134–9
and Russian pilgrims, 353, 369, 385–7, 392, 405n
security wall, 509, 512
situation and name, 13–14
and Six Day War, 492–5
Tartar conquest, 271–2
theocracy and power struggle, 58–9
and Three Pashas, 394–401
and Turkoman conquest, 202–3
Jerusalem Academy, 191n, 195
Jerusalem Brigade, 470, 497
Jerusalem Chapels, 285
Jerusalem Chess Club, 424
Jerusalem Emergency Committee, 474
Jerusalem Families, xxiv, 177, 316, 329, 351, 370, 384, 398–9, 420, 442, 472, 474, 508n, 518, 521
ascendancy of, 308–9, 360–1, 364, 385, 434–5
and Israeli war, 481, 483–4, 488
and land sales, 394, 437
Jerusalem Syndrome, xxi, 341–2, 437–8, 499, 501–2
Jesse, of Bethlehem, 19
Jesus, prophet, 120–1
Jesus Christ, 4, 10, 34, 48n, 87, 90, 135, 148n, 150, 165n, 427, 461
his circumcision, 222
and early Christians, 117–19, 122, 133–4, 136
and Gnostics, 140n
and icons, 229
and Islam, 170, 185, 519
his life, 91, 93–4, 96–110
and Manichaeanism, 144n
relics of, 146–7, 152, 162, 229
his tomb, 146–7, 165n, 271, 300, 320
and William Blake, 321n
Jewish Agency, 445, 457, 461–5, 475, 481, 503n
Jewish Auxiliaries, 452