Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews - Image 1

£64.95

University of Michigan Press Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews

Name: Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews
Brand: University of Michigan Press
Price: 64.86 GBP
Availability: InStock

Medieval

Price History & Forecast

Last 89 days • 89 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 89 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £65 (31 days, 34.8%)

Price range: £65 - £72

Price levels: 4 different prices over 89 days

Description

Medieval Jerusalem examines an old question that has recently surfaced and given rise to spirited discussion among Islamic historians and archeologists: what role did a city revered for its holiness play in the unfolding politics of the early Islamic period? Was there an historic moment when the city, holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, may have been considered as the administrative center of a vast Islamic world, as some scholars on early Islam have recently claimed? Medieval Jerusalem also emphasizes the city’s evolution as a revered Islamic religious site comparable to the holy cities Mecca and Medina. Examining Muslim historiography and religious lore in light of Jewish traditions about the city, Jacob Lassner points out how these reworked Jewish traditions and the imposing monumental Islamic architecture of the city were meant to demonstrate that Islam had superseded Judaism and Christianity as the religion for all monotheists. He interrogates the literary sources of medieval Islamic historiography and their modern interpreters as if they were witnesses in a court of law, and applies the same method for the arguments about the monuments of the city’s material culture, including the great archaeological discoveries along the south wall of the ancient Temple Mount. This book will be of interest to a broad range of readers given the significance of the city in the current politics of the Near East. It will in part serve as a corrective to narratives of Jerusalem’s past that are currently popular for scholarly and political reasons.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Michigan Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0472130366
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Medieval
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 May 2017
Listed Since: 20 September 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Michigan Press Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland (Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland)

International Medievalism and Popular Culture

The Turkic Peoples in Medieval Arabic Writings (Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey)

The Qur'an's Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins (Routledge Studies in the Qur'an)

Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War

Political Islam, Justice and Governance (Political Economy of Islam)

Handbook of Medieval Culture: Volume 1 (De Gruyter Reference): Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages

Media Framing of the Muslim World: Conflicts, Crises and Contexts

Judaisms and their Messiahs

Wife and Widow in Medieval England (Studies in Medieval & Early Modern Civilization)

Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages

Limits of Coexistence: Identity Politics in Israel

Introduction to Medieval Theology (Introduction to Religion)

At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000 – c.1300: 50 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 50)

Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097–1291

Law and Politics in Middle Ages (Sources of History)

Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century (Perspectives on Israel Studies)

Jesus Reclaimed: Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene

The Medieval Warm Period

The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past (The New Middle Ages)

Medieval Papalism (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 36): The Political Theories of the Medieval Canonists

Christendom and its Discontents: Exclusion, Persecution, and Rebellion, 1000–1500

A Jewish State?: Religious Nationalism in Israel (Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy)

Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational (Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany)