TY  - BOOK
AU  - Breger,Marshall J.,ed
AU  - Reiter,Yitzhak,ed
AU  - Hammer,Leonard M.,ed
TI  - Holy places in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: confrontation and co-existence
SN  - 9780415549011 (hardback : alk. paper)
U1  - 956.04  
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Sacred space
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Notes on contributors --
Acknowledgments --
1. Introduction / Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter and Leonard Hammer --
2. The legal regulation of holy sites / Marshall J. Breger and Leonard Hammer --
3. Protection of holy places in international law: objective and subjective approaches / Leonard Hammer --
4. Wars and sacred space: the influence of the 1948 War on sacred space in the state of Israel / Doron Bar --
5. The three kinds of holy places in Jewish law: the case of Nachmanides' Cave in Jerusalem as a third kind / Michael Wygoda --
6. The waaf in Israel since 1965: the case of Acre reconsidered / Yitzhak Reiter --
7. Holy places in urban spaces, foci of confrontation or catalyst for development? / Rassem Khamaisi --
8. Pessimist's guide to religious coexistence / Ron E. Hassner --
9. Contest or cohabitation in shared holy places? The Cave of the Patriarchs and Samuel's Tomb / Yitzhak Reiter --10. Treatment of antiquities on the Temple Mount/Al-Haram al-Sharif / Jon Seligman --
11. The Shihab Al-Din Mosque affair in Nazareth: a case study of Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations in the state of Israel / Daphine Tsimhoni --
12. Holy shrines (maqamat) in modern Palestine/Israel and the politics of memory / Mahmoud Yazbak --
13. Self-empowerment through the sacred culture and representation in the urban landscape: the Mosque of Hassan Bey and the Arab community of Jaffa / Nimrod Luz --
14. The head of Husayn Ibn Ali: its various places of burial and the miracles that it performed / Khalid Sindawi
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