Jerusalem: The Biography

Fourth-century pilgrim graffiti, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (AKG)

Colossal head of Constantine the Great, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome (AKG)

SECTION TWO

Marble statue of Julian the Apostate, 362, Louvre Museum, Paris (AKG)

Justinian I and his retinue, c. 550, San Vitale, Ravenna (Bridgeman Art Library)

Theodora and her retinue, c. 550, San Vitale, Ravenna (Bridgeman Art Library)

Mosaic map of Palestine, Madaba (AKG)

The Golden Gate (author’s photograph)

Ascension of Muhammad, from a manuscript of Nizami’s poem ‘Khamza’, 1539–43, British Library (AKG)

Umayyad dynasty gold dinar showing Abd al-Malik (The Trustees of the British Museum)

The Dome of the Rock (AKG)

Interior of the Dome of the Rock (Garo Nalbandian)

The looting of Jerusalem in 1099, illuminated miniature from a universal chronicle, Jean de Courcy, Bibliotèque Nationale, Paris (Bridgeman Art Library)

Baldwin I crosses the Jordan, illumination from Roman de Godefroi de Bouillon, Bibliotèque Nationale, Paris (AKG)

Medieval map of Jerusalem from Robert the Monk’s Chronicle of the Crusades (Corbis)

Melisende marrying Fulk of Anjou from the Histoire de la conquete de Jerusalem by William of Tyre, Bibliotèque Nationale, Paris (Bridgeman Art Library)

Melisende’s psalter, c. 1131–43, British Library (AKG)

Baldwin IV and William of Tyre, illumination from Histoire de Outremer by William of Tyre, British Library (AKG)

Portrait of Saladin, British Library (Bridgeman Art Library)

Frederick II entering Jerusalem, 1227, Vatican Library (AKG)

The Dome of Ascension (AKG)

Entrance to the Market of the Cotton Merchants

Qaitbay fountain (AKG)

Suleiman I, portrait attributed to school of Titian, c. 1530, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (AKG)

Fountain of the Gate of the Chain (AKG)

Engraving of Sabbatai Zevi (AKG)

Detail from the exterior mosaics of the Dome of the Rock (Corbis)

SECTION THREE

Ibrahim Pasha, Charles-Philippe Larivière, Museum of French History at the Palace of Versailles (RMN)

Greek Church of the Holy Sepulchre, David Roberts, 1839 (AKG)

Sir Moses Montefiore (author’s collection)

Montefiore windmill (Mishkenot Sha’ananim)

Photograph of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Patriarch Yessayi, 1861 (Armenian Partriarchate)

A group of Yemenite Jews (American Colony)

A group of Ashkenazi Jews, 1885, Hulton Archive (Getty)

Crowd of Russian pilgrims at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (American Colony)

King David Street, Granger Collection (Topfoto)

Theodor Herzl and his family, Hulton Archive (Getty)

Kaiser Wilhelm II in Jerusalem, 1889, Hulton Archive (Getty)

The Kaiser at the Tomb of the Kings (American Colony)

Bertha Spafford and other members of the American Colony with Bedouin friends, 1902 (American Colony)

Hussein Selim al-Husseini (American Colony)

Montagu Parker (Morley family archives)

Wasif Jawhariyyeh (Institute for Palestine Studies)

Jemal Pasha, 1915 (American Colony)

Turkish executions in Jerusalem (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Chaim Weizmann, 1918

David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, 1910 (Getty)

T.E. Lawrence on the governor’s balcony, 1920 (Getty)

The Mayor of Jerusalem surrenders the city, 1917 (Getty)

Fourth of July reception at the American Colony (American Colony)

Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence and Amir Abdullah in the gardens of Government House, 1921, Matson Photograph Collection (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)

SECTION FOUR

Investiture by the Duke of Connaught in Barracks Square (American Colony)

Group outside Government House, 1924 (Israel State Archive)

King Hussein in Jerusalem, 1923 (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)

King Faisal and Amir Abdullah surrounded by students, 1933, Matson Photograph Collection (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)

David Ben-Gurion, 1924 (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Mufti Amin al-Husseini at the Nabi Musa festival, 1937 (Keystone Press, France)

Holy Fire ceremony, 1941, Matson Photograph Collection (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)

Prayers at the Western Wall, 1944 (Central Zionist Archives)

Asmahan (Getty)

Mufti Amin al-Husseini meets Adolf Hitler, 1941 (AKG)

Abd al-Kadir al-Husseini, 1940s (Associated Press)

Abd al-Kadir al-Husseini’s funeral procession, 1948 (Government Press Office, State of Israel)

Bombing of the King David Hotel

Katy Antonius (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs)

Jerusalem in smoke during the Arab–Israeli War, 28 May 1948 (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Arab soldiers escorting a Jewish prisoner, 1 June 1948, Time and Life Pictures (Getty)

Jewish girl fleeing from burning buildings, 28 May 1948, Time and Life Pictures (Getty)

Arab troops behind sandbag barricades, 1 June 1948 (AKG)

King Abdullah with crowds in Jerusalem, 1 July 1948 (Getty)

The scene in al-Aqsa mosque after King Abdullah’s assassination, 20 July 1951 (Associated Press)

King Hussein of Jordan, 29 July 1967 (Associated Press)