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Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae Handbook of Oriental Studies Handbuch der Orientalistik Section One The Near and Middle East Edited by H. Altenmüller B. Hrouda B.A. Levine R.S. O’Fahey K.R. Veenhof C.H.M. Versteegh Volume 30 Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP) Volume Four – G – By Moshe Sharon LEIDEN • BOSTON 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV has made all reasonable efforts to trace all rights holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyright holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. The publication of this volume was supported by the Fondation Max van Berchem, Geneva. The Max van Berchem Foundation is a scientific foundation established in Geneva, Switzerland, in memory of Max van Berchem (1863-1921), the founder of Arabic epigraphy. Its aim is to promote the study of Islamic and Arabic archaeology, history, geography, art, epigraphy, religion and literature. It subsidizes the Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae since 1997. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication data Sharon, Moshe. Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP) addendum : squeezes in the Max van Berchem collection (Palestine, Trans- Jordan, Northern Syria) : squeezes 1-84 / registered, photographed and studied by Moshe Sharon. p. cm. — (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten, ISSN 0169-9423 ; 30. Bd.) ISBN-13: 978-90-04-15780-4 ISBN-10: 90-04-15780-8 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Inscriptions, Arabic—Palestine. 2. Epitaphs—Palestine. 3. Inscriptions, Ara- bic—Jordan. 4. Epitaphs—Jordan. 5. Inscriptions, Arabic—Syria. 6. Epitaphs—Syria. 7. Fondation Max van Berchem—Catalogs. I. Fondation Max van Berchem. II. Title. III. Series. PJ7599.P19S53 1997 Suppl. 492.7—dc22 2007060883 ISSN: 0169-9423 ISBN: 978 90 04 10833 2 (Vol. 1) ISBN: 978 90 04 11083 0 (Vol. 2) ISBN: 978 90 04 13197 2 (Vol. 3) ISBN: 978 90 04 17085 8 (Vol. 4) ISBN: 978 90 04 15780 4 (Addendum) ISBN: 978 90 04 14289 3 (Set) Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS v To Bernard Lewis vi CONTENTS CONTENTS vii CONTENTS List of plates and maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Addenda Addenda to CIAP I To Ashqelon (#Asqal§n) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Addenda to CIAP II To Caesarea (Qays§riyyah) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Gaza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Gesher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Ghuwaynah (kh.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 List of inscriptions according to sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Index of Qur"§nic verses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 viii CONTENTS LIST OF SQUEEZES ix LIST OF PLATES AND MAPS PLATES Pls. 1-23 Gaza Pl.1 Gaza general view in a 19th century engraving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Pl.2 Great Mosque: bilingual inscription Greek Hebrew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Pl.3 Plan of the Great Mosque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Pl.4 Inscription from Dar#ah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Pl.5 Shaykh BashÊr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Pl.6 Lions of Baybars—Gaza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Pl.6a Lions of Baybars—Lydda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Pl.6b Lions of Baybars, St. Stephen’s Gate—Jerusalem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Pl.7 Blazon—Shaykh (NabÊ) Ily§s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Pl.8 Gaza No. 12: van Berchem’s reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Pl.9 Plan of Shaykh Zakariyy§ Mosque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Pl.10 Inscription No. 43: detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Pl.11 MvB Carnet VII Page 124 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Pl.12 Inscription No. 48. Gaza 786 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Pl.13 Inscription No. 48: detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Pl.14 MvB Carnet VII Page 125. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Pl.15 Plan of Shaykh Kh§lid (Husseini). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Pl.16 Gaza No. 62–Gaza 821a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Pl.17 Gaza No. 65: van Berchem drawing of Blazon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Pl.18 Gaza No. 72: van Berchem’s copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Pl.19 Q§#ah Lane’s engraving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Pl.20 Gaza No. 79: van Berchem’s copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Pl.21 Gaza No. 83–965 (995). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Pl.22 Gaza No. 93–1216: van Berchem’s copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Pl.23 Greek Orthodox Church 1874: plan and section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Pl.24 Gesher inscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Pl.25 Khirbat Guwaynah at-TaÈt§: inscription. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 MAPS Gatt’s Plan von Gaza 1887 (attached). Map of Gaza (1931) Figs. P31, P31a.

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The squeezes of the Arabic inscriptions collected by Max van Berchem in the Middle East are presented here in a systematic way accompanied by their studies and photographs. This is the first of hopefully two volumes which will cover all the existing squeezes in the Archives, representing many inscri
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