Holy places in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: confrontation and co-existence/
edited by Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter, and Leonard Hammer.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- x, 304 p. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 14. .
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.