Jordanian Jerusalem

Author : Kimberly Katz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813028446
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jordanian Jerusalem written by Kimberly Katz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberly Katz explores the role of Jerusalem's holy places in the process of creating a distinct national identity in Jordan from 1948 to 1967. The time period marks Jordan's control over Jerusalem, including the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish holy sites in the Old City. Katz shows that the governing Hashemite leaders co-opted the religious importance of Jerusalem to refashion Jordan's image following the 1948 War in Palestine around the holy places, located in the newly enlarged kingdom. The Hashemites faced serious questions about their political legitimacy after being installed by the British as rulers in a demarcated region that had no historical precedent as a political entity. To promote their own legitimacy and that of the newly created state, the leaders employed state-issued cultural artifacts to define both the state and the nation. With the support and blessing of the West, they not only exploited the traditional religious appeal of Jerusalem in speeches and public discourse, but also designed modern symbols of the nation such as stamps and currency with markers of holiness. The monarchy assumed and projected one overriding posture throughout this period: guardianship of the Holy Land. Katz explores the lingering presence of the British in Jordan, while giving life and color to the contributions of Hashemite leaders such as Sharif Husayn, King Abdullah I, and King Hussein. She also traces the ways in which state officials carefully promoted the new political identity to their subjects, to other Arabs, to Muslims elsewhere, and to the world at large. One of very few books on Jordanian Jerusalem, this is the first that deals with the intersection of religious symbols, legitimacy practices, and nationalism through the framework of cultural history.

Author : Hisham Khatib
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908531094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem, Palestine & Jordan written by Hisham Khatib and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary and beautifully presented perspective on the history and society of the Holy Land, as recorded in the writings, paintings, maps, and photography of Western travelers and observers. This remarkable collection spans the four hundred years of Ottoman rule, but has a heavy focus on nineteenth century watercolors, including works from Edward Lear, Carl Haag, and Carl Werner. Also included are images from illustrated plate books, travel books, maps, surveys, and atlases of the region, as well as original photographs. This large inspiring volume is a celebration of the Holy Land through the ages.

Author : Hillel Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136852662
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem written by Hillel Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of Jerusalem since 1967 and the city’s decline as an Arab city. Covering issues such as the Old City, the barrier, planning regulations and efforts to remove Palestinians from it, the book provides a broad overview of the contemporary situation and political relations inside the Palestinian community, but also with the Israeli authorities.

Author : Yehuda Lukacs
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628552
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process written by Yehuda Lukacs and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel and Jordan, even though self-proclaimed enemies of one another, practiced a relationship of interdependence based on corresponding interests. In the years following the 1967 war, these two countries' fates were delicately intertwined because of many factors like mutual reliance on natural resources (especially water) and parallel interests in the subordination of the Palestinian national movement. These conditions of commonality led to extensive ties between the two countries and approximated a state of de facto peace that— ironically—made an official peace treaty almost impossible to sign. A formal peace treaty would have required not only Israel's withdrawal from the West bank but also Jordan's acknowledgement of the clandestine contacts between the two formal enemies. Yehuda Lukacs gives us an account of how this relationship changed in 1988 when Jordan disengaged from the West Bank. This event, combined with the Palestinian uprising and the Gulf War, paved the way for Israel and Jordan in 1994 to sign the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty. By systemically examining the impact of functional cooperation between two official enemies, Lukacs makes an important contribution to Middle East studies and international conflict resolution.

Author : J. Ginat
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli Triangle written by J. Ginat and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the recent history of the peace agreements between the three parties from socioeconomic, cultural, political, and psychological perspectives. Sixteen chapters discuss such topics as fundamental premises needed to encourage trilateral cooperation; the way the Palestinians, as the weakest party, are forced to seek help from outside countries such as Egypt; the attitudes of each party with regard to the final status of East Jerusalem; the emotional attitudes of the parties and ways to change them; the personal stakes of ordinary people in the condition of peace; practical ways to reduce levels of prejudice; the rise of the Jordanian tourist industry as a benefit of the peace process; and the possibilities of economic cooperation in the region. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Adnan Abu Odeh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jordanians, Palestinians, & the Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East Peace Process written by Adnan Abu Odeh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex, often uneasy, relationship between Transjordanians and Palestinians has profoundly influenced not only Jordan but also the entire Middle East peace process. At different times, Jordan's Hashemite royalty has sought to accommodate, embrace, exclude, or cooperate with the Palestinians and the PLO, and the impact of these efforts has been felt throughout the region. Today, Jordan has signed a peace treaty with Israel, and Palestinians account for over half of the Jordanian population--yet the dynamic relationship between the regime and its Transjordanian and Palestinians citizens still arouses powerful sentiments at home and can send shock waves through the West Bank and Israel. Abu-Odeh explores this relationship from its origins in the 1920s to the very latest attempts to cope with competing national identities and to sustain a peace process.

Author : John M. Oesterreicher
Publisher : John Day Company, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem written by John M. Oesterreicher and published by John Day Company, Incorporated. This book was released on 1974 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays views Jerusalem from many different perspectives. Section 1 deals with political history. Section 2 deals with what Jerusalem means to its Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communities and how they co-exist. Section 3 deals with Jerusalem's role as a holy city to the three faiths.

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Peoples--one Land written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has been exploring federal solutions for Israel, the Palestinians, and Jordan as the only way out of the Middle East conflict. In this volume, edited by renowned scholar Daniel J. Elazar, eleven separate options are presented and extensively explored, and a path is suggested for bringing peace to Israel and the Middle East. The work is a must read for anyone interested in this ever growing focal point of international debate and conflict. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Author : Michael Dumper
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780585388717
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967 written by Michael Dumper and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown University

Author : Menachem Klein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199396264
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives in Common written by Menachem Klein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street level upwards, of three cities-Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Hebron-and their intermingled Jewish, Muslim and Christian inhabitants, from the nineteenth century to the present. Each of them was and still is a mixed city. Jerusalem and Hebron are holy places, while Jaffa till 1948 was Palestine's principal city and main port of entry. Klein portrays a society in the late Ottoman period in which Jewish-Arab interactions were intense, frequent, and meaningful, before the onset of segregation and separation gradually occurred in the Mandate era. The unequal power relations and increasing violence between Jews and Arabs from 1948 onwards are also scrutinised. Throughout, Klein bases his writing not on the official record but rather on a hitherto hidden private world of Jewish-Arab encounters, including marriages and squabbles, kindnesses and cruelties, as set out in dozens of memoirs, diaries, biographies and testimonies. Lives in Common brings together the voices of Jews and Arabs in a mosaic of fascinating stories, of lived experiences and of the major personalities that shaped them over the last 150 years. Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street level upwards, of three cities-Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Hebron-and their intermingled Jewish, Muslim and Christian inhabitants, from the nineteenth century to the present. Each of them was and still is a mixed city. Jerusalem and Hebron are holy places, while Jaffa till 1948 was Palestine's principal city and main port of entry. Klein portrays a society in the late Ottoman period in which Jewish-Arab interactions were intense, frequent, and meaningful, before the onset of segregation and separation gradually occurred in the Mandate era. The unequal power relations and increasing violence between Jews and Arabs from 1948 onwards are also scrutinised. Throughout, Klein bases his writing not on the official record but rather on a hitherto hidden private world of Jewish-Arab encounters, including marriages and squabbles, kindnesses and cruelties, as set out in dozens of memoirs, diaries, biographies and testimonies. Lives in Common brings together the voices of Jews and Arabs in a mosaic of fascinating stories, of lived experiences and of the major personalities that shaped them over the last 150 years.