Spartacus slave rebellion, 73, 106n
Special Night Squads, 451–2
Special Squads, 463
Springs of Cresson, 246
Stables of Solomon, 85, 150, 219, 226, 509
Stalin, Josef, 382n, 440n, 461, 462n, 463, 476, 489
Stanhope, Lady Hester, 321–2
Stanley, Dean Arthur, 353–4
Stations of the Cross, 106n
Stepashin, Stephan, 515n
St Stephen, 110, 152n
St Stephen’s Gate, 417
Stern, Abraham, 458
Stonehenge, 14
stoning, 59
Storrs, Sir Ronald, xxv, 404, 406, 417n, 422–4, 429–30, 434–6, 478
Strait of Tiran, 492–3
Strategos, 162
stylites, 154
Sudan, 26, 355n, 365, 402
Suetonius, 111
Suez Canal, 325, 355, 362, 397, 490, 504
Sufism, 197n, 276, 280–1, 303–4
suicide bombings, 507, 508, 513, 518n
Suleiman, Caliph, 186
Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan, 146n, 291–7, 343
Suleiman Pasha, the Just, 320, 322
Sulla, 73
Supreme Muslim Council, 436, 439
Suqman, 203
Susa, 50n, 51, 370
Swedish Evangelical Church, 365
Sweyn Godwinson, Earl, 201
Switzerland, 409
Sykes, Sir Mark, 405, 414–15
Sykes–Picot Agreement, 405–7, 415, 428
Syria, 22, 31, 33, 41, 57n, 82, 116, 140, 215, 218, 355, 442, 456, 492
and Albanian conquest, 327, 334
and Arab conquests, 173, 177–8, 181, 187, 190–1, 194
and archaeology, 354
and desert monks, 154
and division of Middle East, 403, 405–7, 415, 422, 424–8, 431–3, 454, 465–6
and Grand Mufti’s revolt, 448, 454
and Islamic sultanate, 243–4, 251, 265–6, 271, 272n
and Israeli wars, 474–5, 492, 504
and Mongol raids, 275, 277
Nur al-Din’s conquest, 236, 238, 241
and Persian conquesst, 161, 163–4
Roman occupation, 72, 74–6, 80
and Tamurlane’s conquest, 282–3
and the Three Pashas, 395–6
and UAR, 490–1
Syriac Orthodox Church, 157n, 310
al-Tabari, 172n
Tabernacles, 59n, 67–8, 70, 98
Tabor Mountain, Battle of, 316
Tacitus, 9, 99n, 116, 125, 130, 133
Taki al-Din, 247, 253, 259
Talaat Pasha, Mehmet, 395, 400, 414, 416n
Talal, King of Jordan, 484
Talbieh, 335, 346, 352, 400n, 443, 466
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice, Prince de, 312
Talmud, 83, 132, 136, 191
Talpiot, 444, 452, 467n
Tamar, 24
Tamara, Queen of Georgia, 296n
Tamurlane, 282–4
Tanakh, 16, 55
Tancred de Hauteville, 208, 210–12
Tankiz, Viceroy, 280–1
Tartars, 270–1
Tbilisi, 416n, 461n
Tegart forts, 450
Teima, 46
Tel Aviv, 383, 438, 452, 455, 463, 468, 470, 474, 487, 501, 511
Tel Dan stele, xxiv, 22, 32n
telegraph, 356
Tell al-Jahudiya, 66n
Temple
anti-Temple traditions, 99–100
Babylonian destruction, 44
Foundation Stone, 148, 508n, 509, 515
Herod’s Temple, 84–7, 183, 295, 354n
and Jewish commemoration, 374
and Jewish revolt, 1–10, 122–3, 125, 131–2
Julian’s rebuilding, 150
and life of Jesus, 99–102, 104, 109–10
and Maimonides’ grieving, 240–1
and PLO denial, 505–6, 508
Roman depredations, 72–3, 78
Second Temple, 49–50, 85
Solomon’s Temple, 7, 25–8, 50, 85, 159, 183
spoliation under Antiochus, 62–3
Third Temple, 437, 502, 505
treasures, 7–8, 31, 33, 51, 60, 129, 130n, 159
Temple Institute, 86n
Temple Mount, xix, xxi, 9, 16, 72, 122–3, 147–9, 195, 241, 361, 400, 420, 434, 488
and Albanian conquest, 327
and Arab conquests, 170, 175–9, 182–3, 185, 190–1, 200
and Arab Revolt, 448
and archaeology, 355, 379
and Crusaders, 211–12, 221, 227–9, 270
and European visitors, 322, 325, 348–9, 378–9, 422
Herod’s constructions, 67n, 71, 85
and Intifada, 503
and Islamic sultanate, 254, 268–9
and Israeli wars, 466, 492–5
and Jewish festivals, 153–4
Jewish picnics, 58n, 384
and Mamluk sultanate, 276, 280, 284, 286, 288
negotiations and access, 509–10, 514–16, 517
and Ottoman sultanate, 291–3, 295, 299n, 304, 307–8
and Parker fiasco, 389, 391–2
reconsecration, 162
Roman constructions, 134–6, 138
sacred status, 27–8, 152n and Second Coming, 502–4
and Seljuk conquest, 202
tomb of King Hussein, 479, 484
tunnel construction, 509
and World Islamic Conference, 439
see also Haram al-Sharif Temple Mount Faithful, 503
Temple of Amun, 31
Temple of Jupiter, 134, 135n, 138, 140
Temple of Solomon, see al-Aqsa Mosque Ten
Commandments, 17
Tennenbaum, Leah, 399–400
Tenth Legion, 9, 132, 136, 138, 363n
Tetragrammaton, 302
Teutonic Knights, 267–8, 270
Texas, 382
Thackeray, William, 336, 339, 345, 347
Theodora, Empress, 158–60
Theodora, Queen of Jerusalem, 237–8
Theodorich, 219, 239n
Theodosius I, Emperor, 148n, 151
Theodosius II, Emperor, 153–6
Thibault of Champagne, Count, 270
Third Wall, 114, 126
Thirty Years War, 300
St Thomas, 108
Thomas, Lowell, 404, 425–6, 433n
Thomas the gravedigger, 162n
Thomas the Presbyter, 172
Thompson, Archbishop William, 354
Thomson, William, 329, 337
Thousand and One Nights, 189, 363
Thrace, 50
Three Pashas, 394–401, 403, 415n
Tiberias, 95, 111, 115, 161, 164, 177, 246, 295
Tiberius, Emperor, 95, 98, 99n, 110–12
Tiferet Israel Synagogue, 352n
Tiglath-Pileser III, King of Assyria, 33–4
Tigris, river, 150
Tikrit, 251
Timberlake, Henry, 299–301
Titus, Emperor, 1–10, 38, 44, 66n, 84n, 87, 99, 124–6, 129, 131, 133, 134n, 136, 479
Tobiah the Amnonite, 56n
Tobler, Titus, 356
Tobruk, 459
Toldot Haron, 486
Tomb of Kings, 355
Tomb of Simon, 360
Tomb of the Abyss, 27n
Tomb of Zechariah, 132
Torah, 45n, 51, 61, 62, 70, 90, 190, 279, 298, 338
Torquemada, Tomás de, 294
Tosefta, 139
Touro, Judah, 352n
Tours, 186
Tours, Battle of, 65n
Tower of Babel, 42, 45n
Tower of David, 84n, 203, 214, 217, 225, 236, 243, 245, 249, 260, 269–70, 280, 288, 292, 307, 319, 356, 363, 378, 418, 420, 452
see also Citadel
Trajan, Emperor, 133–4, 160
Transjordan, 433, 446, 448
Transylvania, 304n
Treaty of Jaffa, 263
Treaty of Karlowitz, 305
Trieste, 513
Tripoli, 209, 215
Trojan Wars, 14–15
Trotsky, Leon, 383, 423n, 429n
True Cross, 146–7, 152, 162, 164–5
and Crusaders, 214, 217, 220, 223, 227, 236, 244, 247–9, 258–61, 263
Truman, Harry S., President, 410, 463–4, 476
Tunis, 506
Tunisia, 194, 251, 283
Turanshah, Sultan, 271
Turin Shroud, 108
Turjman, Ihsan, 422
Turkish Lions, 275
Tustari, Grand Vizier, 200
Twain, Mark, xxiv, 357–8
Twelve Apostles, 97, 99, 103, 109
Tyler, John, President, 336
Tyre, 22, 27, 53, 202, 220, 227, 236, 255
Tyropaean Valley, 35n
Ubadah ibn al-Samit, 177n
Ubayd Allah (al-Mahdi), 194
Uganda, 381–2, 410, 453
Uhuh, Battle of, 177
Ukraine, 50n, 301–3, 359n, 444, 486n
Umayyad dynasty, 178–87
Union of Zionist-Revisionists, 430
United Arab Command, 491
United Arab Republic (UAR), 490
United Nations, 48n, 466–7, 468–71, 478, 483, 492, 495–6, 514, 519
United Resistance Command, 462, 465
United States of America
American Civil War, 347n
American Constitution, 336
American Jews, 428, 500
early colonists, 300–2
and Jewish immigration, 370
and Six Day War, 494, 496
and Suez crisis, 490
and state of Israel, 467
Unur, Atabeg of Damascus, 224, 229, 233, 235
Ur, 16, 45n
Urban II, Pope, 208
Uriah the Hittite, 23, 363
US Zionist Federation, 428
Usamah bin Munqidh, xxv, 223–5, 229–31, 233, 237, 239, 241, 252
Ustinov, Baron Plato von, 366
Vagabond Café, 444
Valley of Hinnom, 40, 185n
Valley of Jehoshaphat, 227
Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 389
Varus, Publius Quinctilius, 93
Venice, 207n
Verdun, 408, 416
Versailles peace conference, 427–8
Vespasian, Emperor, 1–2, 5, 124–6, 129, 131–2
Vester, Frederick, 485
Via Dolorosa, 106n, 135n, 286, 300, 344n, 356, 497
Victoria, Queen, 324, 332, 341, 350, 354, 368, 454n
Vienna, 292, 304, 352, 373, 376, 398
Villiers, Captain Hyde, 389n
Vilna, 350n, 359n, 501
Vincent, Père, 390
Virgin Mary, see Mary, mother of Jesus
Virgin’s Tomb, see Church of Our Lady of Jehoshaphat
Vitruvius, 85n
Volney, Constantin, 310–11
von Papen, Franz, 396, 409, 416, 439n
Wagner, Richard, 423
Wahab, Muhammad ibn Abdul, 327n
Wahabis, 281, 327, 432
al-Wahrani, 252–3
Walid I, Caliph, 184, 186
Walter, Hubert, 263
Waqfs, 280n, 364n, 421, 498, 508
Ward, Hon. Cyril, 389n
warfare, laws of, 213n
Warren, Captain Charles, 21n, 355–6
Warren’s Gate, 186
Waterloo, Battle of, 323
Watson, Brigadier C. F., 418
Wauchope, Sir Arthur, 439–40, 450
Wavell, Sir Archibald, 1st Earl, 451
Wazzah, 421
Weidenfeld, George, Baron, 482, 487
Weizmann, Chaim, President, xxv, 351n, 374, 409–12, 414–15, 421, 423–31, 435, 444–6, 450, 453, 458, 478
and Buraq Uprising, 438–9
and El Alamein, 457
and Israeli presidency, 476, 480
and Nabi Musa riots, 429–30
and Orde Wingate, 450–1
Weizmann Institute of Science, 481
Well of Souls, 27n
West Bank, 478, 481–2, 488, 491, 502
and Intifada, 505–6, 509
Western Wall, 9, 24n, 71, 120n, 135n, 151n, 175, 264, 286, 300, 355, 357, 379, 408, 452, 504
and Buraq Uprising, 436–8
daily rituals, 518–19, 523
as ha-Kotel, 295, 437, 497, 516
and Jewish access, 480, 482, 502, 513, 516
purchase attempts, 357, 374, 398n, 421, 437
and shofar ban, 437, 459
and Six Day War, 497–8
tunnel constructions, 509
Westminster, Jerusalem Chamber, 285
White Russians, 444
Wiesel, Elie, 512
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 355–6, 375–80, 389, 395, 408, 417
William III, King, 331
William, Patriarch, 223
William of Tyre, xxv, 208, 222, 233–4, 237–9, 242, 244, 245n
William the Conqueror, King, 201, 208
William the Troubadour, 234–5
Wilson, Captain Charles, 354, 363n, 390
Wilson, Captain Clarence, 389n, 390–1
Wilson, Woodrow, President, 427–8
Wilson’s Arch, 354
Wingate, Lorna, 452
Wingate, General Orde, 450–2, 453n, 456, 494
Winthrop, John, 301
Wittenberg, 296
Wolff, Heinrich, 439
Woodhead Commission, 442n
Workers of Zion, 383
World Islamic Conference, 439
Worms Cathedral, 379n
Wrangel, Count Herman, 389n
Xenophon, 49
Xerxes, King of Persia, 50n, 52
Yaacovy, Yitzhak, 487
Yachin and Boaz pillars, 26
Yad Vashem memorial, 455n, 487n, 504
Yalta conference, 462n, 463
al-Yaqubi, 172n
Yarmuk, Battle of, 172–3, 177n
Yathrib, 170
Yaush, 42n
Yavneh (Jamnia), 132
Yazid, ibn Abi Sufyan, 180
Yemen, 158n, 174, 194, 243, 251, 255
Yishuv, 445, 459, 467, 470
Yohanan ben Zakkai, 10
Yolande, Queen of Jerusalem, 265n, 266–7, 270n
Yom Kippur War, 502
York, 257
Young, William Turner, 330, 332, 334–5