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Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This book addresses the major generators of conflict and toleration at shared holy places in Palestine and Israel. Examining the religious, political and legal issues, the authors …
Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem Under British Mandate
Yitzhak Reiter presents a picture of the role of Islam in mandatory Jerusalem through the resources of the Waqf. The prevalent image of institutionalized corruption within the Waqf …
Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount
This study presents the first comprehensive survey of the abundant early Islamic sources that recognize the historical Jewish bond to the Temple Mount (Masjid al-Aqsa) and …
War, Peace & International Relations in Islam
Foreword by Efraim Halevy, former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence service. This book presents and analyses fatwas -- rulings of Islamic law -- issued by …
Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine
Religion and religious nationalism have long played a central role in many ethnic and national conflicts, and the importance of religion to national identity means that territorial …
Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem
In 2006 a dispute broke out regarding an initiative by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (backed by Israeli authorities) to construct a Museum of Tolerance (MoT) in West …
The Eroding Status-Quo: Power Struggles on the Temple Mount
This study portrays the Status-Quo that prevailed at the Temple Mount/Al-Haram al-Sharif since 1967 until it began to be eroded in stages, first in 1996 following Israel's opening …
War, Peace and International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel
The book presents and analyses fatwas - rulings of Islamic law, issued by religious sages and clerics on issues of war and peace in regard to the actual or future possibility of a …
Contested Holy Places in Israel–Palestine
Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing understanding that conflicts in or over holy places differ from other territorial conflicts. A holy site has a profound …