Holy places in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: confrontation and co-existence/ edited by Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter, and Leonard Hammer.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 14.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Description: x, 304 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415549011 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415549019 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Arab-Israeli conflict -- Religious aspects | Religion and politics -- Palestine | Sacred space -- Political aspects -- PalestineDDC classification: 956.04Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 956.04 BRE/H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P22981 |
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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