Jerusalem: Idea and Reality

351 Pages·2008·4.749 MB·English

by  Tamar Mayer (editor), Suleiman A. Mourad (editor)

Jerusalem
Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of competing
historical, religious, and political narratives from biblical chronicles to
today’s headlines. With an aura that transcends the boundaries of time and
place, the city itself embodies different levels of reality—indeed, different
realities altogether—for both observers and inhabitants. There is the real
Jerusalem, a place of ancient streets and monuments, temples and coffee-
houses, religious discourse and political argument. But there is also the
imaginary and utopian city that exists in the minds of believers, political
strategists, and artists. The study of this multifaceted city poses complex
questions that range over several fields of inquiry.
The multidisciplinary studies in Jerusalem: Idea and Realityoffer insights
into this complexity. Chapters by leading scholars examine the significant
issues that relate to the perception, representation, and status of the city at
the historical, religious, social, artistic, and political levels. Together they
provide an essential resource for anyone interested in the paradoxes that
Jerusalem offers.
TamarMayerisProfessorofGeographyatMiddleburyCollegeandtheeditor
ofWomenandtheIsraeliOccupation:ThePoliticsofChange(Routledge, 1994)
and Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation (Routledge, 2000).
Her research interests focus on the interplay among nationalism, gender,
andsexuality,particularlyintheMiddleEast,andontherelationships among
nationalism, landscape, and memory.
Suleiman Ali Mourad is Associate Professor of Religion at Smith College,
USA. His research focuses on early Islamic history and religious thought,
including the sanctityof Jerusalem. He is the authorof Early Islam between
MythandHistory:al-Hasanal-Basri(d.110H/728CE)andtheFormationofHis
Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship (Brill, 2005).

Jerusalem
Idea and reality
Edited by
Tamar Mayer and
Suleiman Ali Mourad
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Contents
List of figures ix
Notes on contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction 1
TAMARMAYERANDSULEIMANALIMOURAD
2 Jerusalem: one city, one faith, one god 14
F.E.PETERS
3 Jerusalem in Jewish history, tradition, and memory 27
LEEI.LEVINE
4 TheTempleMountinJewishandearlyChristiantraditions:anew
look 47
YARONZ.ELIAV
5 Early Christian Jerusalem: the city of the cross 67
OLIVERLARRYYARBROUGH
6 The symbolism of Jerusalem in early Islam 86
SULEIMANALIMOURAD
7 The holy fool still speaks: the Jerusalem Syndrome as a religious
subculture 103
ALEXANDERVANDERHAVEN
8 Sacred space and mythic time in the early printed maps of
Jerusalem 123
REHAVRUBIN
9 Seeing is believing: Auguste Salzmann and the photographic
representation of Jerusalem 140
EMMIEDONADIO
viii Contents
10 Fayruz, the Rahbani Brothers, Jerusalem, and the Leba-stinian
song 155
CHRISTOPHERSTONE
11 Jerusalem in the visual propaganda of post-revolutionary Iran 168
CHRISTIANEJ.GRUBER
12 Negotiating the city: a perspective of a Jerusalemite 198
SARINUSSEIBEH
13 Jerusalem in the late Ottoman period: historical writing and the
native voice 205
ISSAMNASSAR
14 Jerusalem in and out of focus: the city in Zionist ideology 224
TAMARMAYER
15 Administering Jordanian Jerusalem: constructing national identity 245
KIMBERLYKATZ
16 The Palestinian political leadership in East Jerusalem after 1967 266
ELIEREKHESS
17 Yerushalayim, al-Quds, and the Wizard of Oz: the problem of
‘‘Jerusalem’’ after Camp David II and the Aqsa Intifada 283
IANS.LUSTICK
18 Negotiating Jerusalem: reflections of an Israeli negotiator 303
GILEADSHER
Index 321
Figures
1 Map of Jerusalem xvii
8.1 Seutter’s double map of realistic and imaginary Jerusalem 124
8.2 Adrichom’s map of Jerusalem 127
8.3 A detail from Adrichom’s map of Jerusalem presenting the
coronation of King Solomon and the Pisanorum Castrum side
by side 128
8.4 Villalpando’s map of Jerusalem 129
8.5 David and Goliath near the Walls of Jerusalem, a detail from
de Pierre’s map of Jerusalem (1728) 130
8.6 Eder’s map of Jerusalem 131
8.7 A detail from Schedel’s map of Jerusalem: The Dome of the
Rock as the burnt Temple 134
8.8 A detail from Adrichom: The Idol and the Crescent 135
9.1 Michael Wohlgemut, Hierosolima, 1493 141
9.2 Matthaeus Merian, after Erhard Reuwich–Bernhard von
Breydenbach, Jerusalem, 1497 142
9.3 Francis Frith, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, c. 1858 143
9.4 Auguste Salzmann, Je´rusalem, enceinte du temple, vue ge´ne´rale
de la face Est, Pl. 2, 1854 143
9.5 Auguste Salzmann, Je´rusalem, enceinte du temple, coˆte´ Ouest,
1854 146
9.6 Auguste Salzmann, Je´rusalem, Birket-Hammam-Setty-
Mariam, 1854 148
9.7 Auguste Salzmann, Je´rusalem, Birket Mamilla, 1854 149
9.8 Auguste Salzmann, Je´rusalem, Birket Hammam-el-Batrak,
1854 150
9.9 Auguste Salzmann, Je´rusalem, Porte de Damas, vue exte´rieure,
1854 151
9.10 Auguste Salzmann, Je´rusalem, Porte de Damas, inte´rieure,
1854 151
9.11 Auguste Salzmann, Je´rusalem, Birket-es-Soultan, 1854 152
11.1 ‘‘The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Karbala,’’ billboard,
Mehran, c. 1983 172