Jerusalem: The Biography

  Megiddo, 26, 29n, 31, 41

  Megiddo, Battle of, 426

  Mehmet IV, Sultan, 304, 400

  Mehmet V Rashid, Sultan, 395

  Meir, Golda, 478, 491

  Melania, 151

  Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount, 332

  Melchizedek, 16, 152n

  Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem, 221–5, 228–30, 232–4, 236

  Melisende Psalter, 223n

  Melville, Herman, xix, xxiv, 334, 338, 344–5, 347, 349

  Menasseh ben Israel, Rabbi, 302

  Mendel, Menachem, 343

  Menelaos, 61–3, 66

  Menelik, King, 157n

  Mengele, Dr Josef, 487

  menorah, 130n

  Merneptah, pharaoh, 18

  Merrill, Selah, 365–6

  Merv, 202n

  Mesha, King of Moab, 31–2n

  Meshal, Khaled, 512n

  Mesopotamia, 13

  Messalina, 116n

  Messina, 257

  Micah, prophet, 38

  St Michael, 502

  St Michael’s Chapel, 518

  Michal, 20, 22

  Michmas, 66

  Mickiewisz, Adam, 343n

  Mihrimah, 292

  mikvah, 95

  Milford Haven, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquis of, 444n

  Miller, William, 337n

  Milton, John, 39n

  Mir Mehmed, 292

  Mishnah, 27n, 86n, 139

  Mishneh, 35n

  Mithraism, 144

  Mithridates, King of Pontus, 70

  Mizpah, 44n

  Moab, 70

  Moabites, 19, 31–2n

  Modestos, Patriarch, 163, 165

  Modin, 63, 66, 458

  molok, 39n

  Molotov, Vyecheslav, 440n

  Monastery of the Cross, 106n, 296n

  Mongols, 272, 275, 277–9

  Monophysites, 156–7, 174, 519

  Montagu, Edwin, 414

  Montefiore, Sir Abraham, 357n

  Montefiore, Claude, 414

  Montefiore, Sir Francis, 375

  Montefiore, Judith, 323–4, 332, 349, 351, 357n

  Montefiore, Sir Moses, 323–4, 325n, 332–3, 335–6, 348–51, 354, 357, 374, 421

  Montefiore Quarter, 351–2, 357, 384, 438, 467–9, 470

  Montesquieu, Baron de, 326

  Montgisard, 243

  Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard, 1st Viscount, 452–4, 459, 464–6

  Montjoie, 204, 260

  Morgan, J. P., Jr., 423

  Morganthau, Henry, 398n

  Morley, Edmund Parker, 4th Earl of, 388

  Morley, John Parker, 6th Earl of, 393

  Mormons, 338

  Morocco, 180n, 255, 283

  Morphia, Queen of Jerusalem, 218

  Morris, Benny, 471

  Moscow, 369, 386n, 444n, 454, 462n, 489, 492–3, 515

  Moses, 17, 40, 86n, 110, 170, 276, 410, 520

  Mosque of Omar, 264

  mosque (the word), 171n

  Mossad, 488, 505

  Mosul, 217, 427

  Motol, 350n, 412

  Mount Ararat, 389n

  Mount Gerizim, 53, 110, 509

  Mount Gilboa, 20

  Mount Hermon, 248

  Mount Herzl, 487, 507

  Mount Moriah, 3, 7, 16, 24–5, 27, 35n, 179, 182

  Mount Nebo, 17

  Mount of Olives, 86–7, 139, 195, 236, 240, 323, 409, 434, 517, 521

  and Christianity, 99, 108, 117, 153

  churches, 147, 162, 368

  and crucifixions, 1–2

  and Crusaders, 210–11

  and European visitors, 332, 363n and Islamic sultanate, 260, 265

  Jewish cemetery, 139, 338, 479

  and Mamluk sultanate, 286

  and Ottoman sultanate, 295

  and Providence, 10, 132

  and Second Coming, 500

  see also Augusta Victoria fortress

  Mount Scopus, 3, 174, 394, 425, 434, 473, 481–83, 494, 496

  Mount Zion, xxi – xxii, 69, 120n, 132, 139, 148, 156, 200, 211, 338, 379n, 449, 463

  and Albanian conquest, 329

  Cenacle (David’s Tomb), 25n, 69, 103, 109, 239, 240n, 254, 255n, 260, 281, 286, 292n, 295, 327, 329, 400

  and Islamic sultanate, 254, 255n

  and Israeli wars, 480, 495, 497

  and Mamluk sultanate, 281, 286–7

  and Ottoman sultanate, 292n, 299

  synagogue, 139, 148

  Mourners of Zion, 195

  Moussaieff family, 375

  Movement for the Establishment of the Temple, 503

  Moyne, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron, 382n, 441, 459

  Muawiya ibn Abi Sufayan, caliph, 177–81

  Muazzam Isa, Sultan, 265–7

  Mubarak, Hosne, 505

  Mufti of Jerusalem, see Husseini, Amin

  Muhammad, Prince of Jordan, 488, 491

  Muhammad, Prophet, 10, 44, 165, 174, 176, 184–5, 187, 246, 259, 291, 303, 403n, 520

  his life, 169–72

  his Night Journey, 169–70, 182, 200, 259, 437

  relics of, 229

  Muhammad, son of Farrukh, 297

  Muhammad Ali, 326–7, 329, 333–4, 350

  Muizz, Caliph, 193–4

  Mujir al-Din, 288

  mulberry trees, 295

  Munich Agreement, 452

  Munich Olympics, 502

  Munster, 297n

  Munqidh, Usamah bin, see Usamah

  al-Muqaddasi, 182, 191n, 195–7

  Muscovy, 340

  Muslim Brotherhood, 445, 477, 506, 508

  Muslim Quarter, 276, 281, 356, 357n, 438, 506, 507–8, 520

  Mussolini, Benito, 430–1, 454

  Mustansir, Caliph, 200n

  Mustasim, Caliph, 190

  Mycenae, 14–15

  Nabataea, 88n

  Nabataeans, 81

  Nabi Daoud, 295

  Nabi Musa festival, 276, 308n, 361, 388, 391–2

  Nabi Musa riots, 429–31, 435

  Nabi Samuel, 416–17

  Nablus, 236, 246, 270, 318, 327, 329, 365, 391, 417, 447, 449, 484

  Nabonidus, King of Babylon, 46

  Nabopolassar, 39

  Nachmanides, Ramban, 278–9

  al-Nadim, 190n

  Nahalavat Shiva, 364

  Nahum, prophet, 36

  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor, 311–12, 315–18, 320–1, 323, 326, 374, 427, 446

  Napoleon III, Emperor, 342–3, 348, 355, 380n

  al-Naqashibi, Nasir al-Din, 435n

  Narkiss, General Uzi, 494–7

  Nashashibi family, 435n, 438–9, 442, 489

  Fakhri Bey al-Nashashibi, 449

  Nassereddin al-Nashashibi, 435, 443, 463, 484–5

  Ragheb al-Nashashibi, 385, 394, 399, 422, 435–6, 439, 441, 448–9, 453, 478, 483

  Nasi, Joseph, 295, 297

  Nasir Daud, Sultan, 268, 270–1

  Nasir Muhammad, Sultan, 278, 279–81, 344n

  Nasir-i-Khusrau, 200–1

  Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdul, President, 485, 489–90, 492–8, 506, 519

  Nathan, prophet, 23, 25

  Naumov, Bishop Cyril, 386

  Navarino, Battle of, 327

  Nazarenes, 109–10, 115

  Nazareth, 95, 275, 416

  Nea Church, 159–60, 162

  Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, xix, 9, 41–6, 59, 65, 374, 388–9

  Nebuzardan, 43–4

  Necho, pharaoh, 41

  Negev, 481, 493, 516

  Neguib, General Muhammad, 482

  Nehemiah (cup-bearer), 51, 54, 56n

  Nehemiah (Jewish leader), 162–3

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 312, 494

  Nero, Emperor, 2, 60, 116, 118–21, 124, 126

  Nerva, Emperor, 133

  Nestorians, 157

  Nestorius, Patriarch, 156

  Netanyahu, Binyamin, 507–8, 514

  Netzer, Ehud, 92n

  New Jerusalem Monastery, 340n

 
New Salem, Illinois, 347n

  New York, 476, 489

  New York Times, 378, 392

  Newgate Prison, 322

  Nicanor, 66

  Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 339–43, 347, 350

  Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 369, 379, 382–3, 386, 387n, 413, 444n

  Night of the Bridges, 464

  Nikolai Hostel, 463, 475

  Nikolaus of Damascus, 82

  Nikon, Patriarch, 340n

  Nile, river, 135, 218, 271

  NILI, 407

  Nineveh, 31, 36, 38–9

  NKVD, 461

  Noah, 298

  Nob, 20

  Noble Sanctuary, 281

  North Korea, 489

  Northern Rhodesia, 436

  Notable Families, see Jerusalem Families

  Nottingham, 257n

  Nubia, 28

  Numrud, 32n

  Nur al-Din, Atabeg, 234–43, 251

  his minbar, 237, 254, 269, 502

  Nuremberg trials, 439n

  Nusaybah, 177n

  Nusseibeh family, 177n, 263, 298, 308n, 309, 361, 420, 442, 488, 491, 520

  Anwar al-Nusseibeh, 442, 465–6, 468–9, 475–6, 479, 481n, 488, 491

  Hazem al-Nusseibeh, 308n, 420n, 442, 444–5, 448, 456, 483, 488

  Obadah al-Nusseibeh, 520

  Sari al-Nusseibeh, 442, 483, 486–9, 491, 515, 518

  Wajeeh al-Nusseibeh, 517–20

  Obadiah of Bertinoro, Rabbi, 288

  Obama, Barack, President, 512, 516n

  Octavia, 82n

  Octavian, see Augustus, Emperor

  Odessa, 339, 353, 367, 383, 386, 421

  Officers Club, 442, 464

  Olivet, 288, 338, 365, 444n

  Olmert, Ehud, 508, 515–16

  Olympic Games, 124

  Omar, 172, 174–8

  Omar II, Caliph, 186, 255, 291, 304, 420n, 508, 520

  Onias II, 56, 61

  Onias IV, 66n, 67n, 70n

  Operation Agatha, 465

  Operation Nachshon, 471

  Operation Tariq, 494

  Ophel hill, 15, 21n, 22, 24, 355, 390, 393

  Orad II, King of Parthia, 73, 76n

  Order of Caroline, 323

  Order of St Lazarus, 242n

  Order of the Holy Sepulchre, 320

  Orient Express, 376

  Orient House, 364, 505

  Orleans, 238

  Orthodox Church, 157, 160, 189, 255, 486, 488

  and religious conflict, 201, 296, 299–300, 310, 320, 331, 339–40, 343, 348, 424, 488, 519–20

  Ortuq bin Aksab, 203

  Oslo peace talks, 506, 507n, 514

  Osorkon, pharaoh, 31

  ostraca, 42n

  Othman, 178, 181

  Ottoman Cossacks, 343n

  Ottoman empire, 296–7, 326–30, 333–4, 341, 343, 361–2, 380

  military defeat, 416–26

  and the Three Pashas, 394–401, 403, 415n

  Ottoman Land Law, 364n

  Outrejourdain, 243, 264

  Outremer, 215, 225–32, 249

  William’s history, 239, 245n

  Overcomers, 364–6

  Oxford, 333, 442, 445

  Oz, Amos, 438, 441, 444, 457, 465, 467, 483, 486–7, 516

  Pacorus, Prince, 76

  Pact of Omar, 177n

  Pahlavan knights, 76n

  Pakistan, 53–4

  Palace Hotel, 441

  Palaestina, 137, 149, 154, 165

  Palermo, 218, 266–7, 270n

  Palestine (nation and state), 19n, 380, 431, 453–4, 478, 504, 513

  British Mandate, 428, 431, 433, 465, 473

  partition, 466–7, 475

  Palestine Arab Party, 449

  Palestine Exploration Fund, 354–5, 363n

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 491, 503–4, 505–6, 508

  Palestine National Council, 478n

  Palestine Post, 457, 465, 469

  Palestine Society, 517n

  Palestinian Authority, 364, 507, 510

  Palestinian Christians, 218

  Palm Sunday, 191, 218, 227, 387

  Palmach, 456–7, 463, 469, 471, 474, 479

  Palmerston, Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount, xxv, 331–2, 334

  Palmyran empire, 140

  Paltiel, 194–5

  pan-Arabism, 486, 489, 504

  Pannychis, 89

  paradise, 48n

  Paris, 150, 207n, 238, 285, 339, 347n, 352, 373, 380n, 462

  Versailles peace talks, 426–8

  Parker, Monty, (later Earl of Morley), 388–93

  Parry, Sir Hubert, 321n, 426

  Parsons, Levi, 337

  Parthians, 68, 73, 75–8, 81, 130, 133, 139

  Pasargadae, 49

  Paschal II, Pope, 219

  Passfield, Lord (Sidney Webb), 438

  Passover, 35, 40, 50, 59, 159, 324n, 360, 363n, 369, 388, 471, 517

  and blood libel, 333, 336

  Jesus and, 98–102, 107–9, 148

  and longing for Jerusalem, 139, 374

  St Paul, 117–18, 121, 143

  Paul, Emperor of Russia, 342

  Paul VI, Pope, 491

  Paula, 151–2

  Paulinus, 155–6

  Peel, William, 1st

  Earl, 448

  Peel, Sir Robert, 334

  Pentecost, 103n, 109

  Pepys, Samuel, 304

  Peres, Shimon, President, 494, 506–7, 514, 515

  Pergami, Bartolomeo, 322–3

  Persephone, 385

  Persepolis, 50n

  Persia, 63, 181, 458

  Persian Gulf, 35

  Persians, 46–53, 73, 75, 139–40, 150, 161–4, 288

  Petah Tikvah, 374

  St Peter, 98, 102n, 104, 109, 115, 121, 151

  Peter, Bishop of Winchester, 270

  Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, 146n, 340

  Peter, King of Yugoslavia, 456

  Peter the Georgian, 156n

  St Petersburg, 339, 350, 368, 370, 380, 386, 415

  Petra, 71, 98

  Petronius, 112

  Pharisees, 70, 72, 98, 100, 102, 105

  Pharos lighthouse, 55

  Phasael, 74

  Phasael tower, 84, 93

  Pheroras, 81, 88n