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Camera Palaestina : Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
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ISBN: 0520382897 0520382889 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shedding new light on this foundational period, the authors explore not just major historical events and the development of an urban bourgeois lifestyle but a social field of vision of Palestinian life as exemplified in the Jerusalem community. Tracking the interplay between photographic images, the authors offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience from the living past to the living present of Arab Palestine.


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Jérusalem et les Arméniens : jusqu’à la conquête ottomane (1516)
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ISBN: 9782251452968 2251452966 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paris: Les Belles Lettres,

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Dans la division en quatre de la vieille ville de Jérusalem, le quartier chrétien et le quartier arménien sont contigus mais indépendants. Cette situation a priori paradoxale correspond bien à l’ancienneté et à l’importance de la présence arménienne. Jérusalem est en effet restée un mythe pour les Arméniens dès le IVe siècle, quand le christianisme a été proclamé religion nationale. Les relations des Arméniens avec la Ville sainte n’ont jamais cessé, pour culminer à l’époque des croisades qui donnèrent l’occasion de fonder en Cilicie, à la fin du XIe siècle, un État arménien frontalier de la Syrie franque, converti en royaume un siècle plus tard. Jérusalem abritait alors le siège d’un Patriarcat arménien et l’activité culturelle y était particulièrement intense. En témoignent la quantité et la qualité des inscriptions, des sculptures, des mosaïques, des pièces d’orfèvrerie, ou encore des manuscrits superbement calligraphiés, ornés de miniatures qui comptent parmi les chefs-d’œuvre de l’art arménien. Sous la domination des Mamelouks, la culture arménienne continua à fleurir à Jérusalem, comme on peut le voir dans les nombreux récits des voyageurs européens qui n’omettaient jamais une section consacrée aux Arméniens.À l’heure actuelle, Jérusalem est le plus important conservatoire de la culture arménienne hors d’Arménie. Présentant les relations arméno-hiérosolymitaines dans leur contexte historique et artistique, ce livre en est un reflet. L’abondance des cartes et des tableaux généalogiques en facilite la lecture. L’iconographie y joue un rôle fondamental, le texte étant essentiellement traité en légende des images, qu’il s’agisse de reproductions de miniatures, de monuments et d’œuvres d’art, ou encore de pages manuscrites d’historiens et de voyageurs.


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The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions
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ISBN: 9780748695607 0748695605 9781474460446 1474460445 1474460453 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. When was it built? What meanings was it meant to convey to viewers at the time of its construction? These are questions that have preoccupied historians of Islamic art and architecture, and numerous interpretations of the Dome of the Rock have been proposed. Marcus Milwright returns to one of the most important pieces of evidence: the mosaic inscriptions running around the two faces of the octagonal arcade. His detailed examination of the physical characteristics, morphology and content of these inscriptions provides new evidence about the chronology the building and the iconography of the Dome of the Rock.

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Islamic inscriptions --- Architecture, Umayyad --- Art, Umayyad --- Inscriptions islamiques --- Architecture omeyyade --- Art omeyyade --- Qubbat al-Sakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Islamic mosaics. --- Islamic mosaics --- Architecture, Umayyad. --- Art, Umayyad. --- Islamic inscriptions. --- Inschrift. --- Mosaik. --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Middle East --- Felsendom Jerusalem. --- Jérusalem - Ḥaram al-Sharīf. --- Felsendom Jerusalem --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem). --- Jérusalem --- Ḥaram al-Sharīf. --- Inschrift --- Mosaik --- Umayyad art --- Umayyad architecture --- Mosaics, Islamic --- Muslim mosaics --- Mosaics --- Inscriptions, Islamic --- Muslim inscriptions --- Inscriptions --- Jerusalem. --- Dome of the Rock (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Moschea di Omar (Jerusalem) --- Cupola della Roccia (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Mosque of Omar (Jerusalem) --- Ṣakhrah al-Musharrafah (Jerusalem) --- כיפת הסלע (מסגד : ירושלים) --- قبة الصخرة (مسجد : القدس) --- قبة الصخره --- al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds al-ʻArabīyah --- Bayt al-Maqdis --- Erusaghēm --- Gerusalemme --- Ierousalēm --- Ierusalim --- ʻIriyat Yerushalayim --- Israel --- Jerusalem Arab Municipality --- Jerusalem --- Jerusalén --- Jeruzalem --- Jeruzsálem --- Kouds --- Kuds --- Quds --- Ūrushalīm --- Yerushalayim --- Jérusalem - Ḥaram al-Sharīf.


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The cult of Stephen in Jerusalem : inventing a patron martyr
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ISBN: 9780192846990 019284699X Year: 2022 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press

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"As the site of only a small and obscure Christian population between 135 and 313 CE, Jerusalem witnessed few instances of anti-Christian persecution. This fact became a source of embarrassment to the city in late antiquity -- a period when martyr traditions, relics, and shrines were closely intertwined with local prestige. At that time, the city had every incentive to stretch the fame of its few, apostolic martyrs as far as possible -- especially the fame of the biblical St. Stephen, the figure traditionally regarded as the first Christian martyr (Acts 6-8). What the church lacked in the quantity of its martyrs, it believed it could compensate for in an exclusive, local claim to the figure widely hailed as the 'Protomartyr', 'firstborn of the martyrs', and 'chief of confessors' in contemporary sources. This book traces the rise of the cult of Stephen in Jerusalem, exploring such historical episodes as the fabrication of his relics, the construction of a grand basilica in his honour, and the multiplication of the saint's feast days. It argues that local church authorities promoted devotion to Stephen in the fifth century in a conscious attempt to position him as a patron saint for Jerusalem -- that is, a symbolic embodiment of the city's Christian identity and power.


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The topography of ancient Jerusalem : essays on the urban planning record, defences and gates, 2nd century BC-2nd century AD
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ISBN: 9789042948198 9042948191 9789042948204 9042948205 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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"Jerusalem had a turbulent history and an urban evolution, which we find described by the historians of Antiquity. For 130 years attempts have been made to trace the lines of the ramparts, understand the sieges, reconstruct the great buildings and reveal the underlying planning. Crusader eyes first discerned the great monuments, long since vanished: Herod's Temple, Hadrian's Capitoline temple and Justinian's long Christian basilica. All they had in front of them was the wall of the Temple, Constantine's Holy Sepulchre and the Dome of the Rock. They scrutinized Jerusalem tirelessly, with a skill and a passion that still demand respect, and they felt they knew the city. has become a subject that arouses curiosity around the world. The ever-increasing quantity of interdisciplinary research is bringing new documents to light every day. Old maps, the potential of pre-1914 photographs found tucked away in drawers, and the availability of new technologies like satellite photography and computer data-processing are radically changing the methods of investigation. Dominique-Marie Cabaret tackles the whole complexity of the city head-on. Respectfully taking the current state of knowledge on board he conducts his investigation with the analytical skill of an engineer. His alternative approach has opened up new insights for him. Living on the spot, and familiar with the city from years of walking the streets and alleys, secret places, squares and courtyards, he has sought to test his intuitions armed with a pencil, a ten-metre tape-measure and a calculator. He found himself able to discern the geometry of the great works in the districts of the Hasmonean princes, then those of Herod and the whole area of Hadrian's Aelia Capitolina, transformed by the ravages of time but with their organisational principles still intact. The intersections of the city's main thoroughfares bear the marks of their ideologies. The sites of the great buildings have left the imprint of their policies or their competing propaganda. Cabaret radically changes our view of ancient Jerusalem. His watchmaker skills are put to excellent use as he describes the city planning grids and places them in relation to each other. Our curiosity builds as we follow along in his text. The bold thesis of this work will breathe new life into what promises to become a fruitful debate."--

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Romans --- Christian antiquities --- City walls --- Architecture --- 912 <569.4 JERUZALEM> --- 902 <33 JERUSALEM> --- 902 <33 JERUSALEM> Archeologie--Oud-Palestina. Judea--JERUSALEM --- Archeologie--Oud-Palestina. Judea--JERUSALEM --- 912 <569.4 JERUZALEM> Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Israël--JERUZALEM --- 912 <569.4 JERUZALEM> Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Israël--JERUZALEM --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Israël--JERUZALEM --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Israël--JERUZALEM --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Village walls --- Fortification --- Walls --- Antiquities, Christian --- Antiquities, Ecclesiastical --- Archaeology, Christian --- Christian archaeology --- Church antiquities --- Ecclesiastical antiquities --- Monumental theology --- Antiquities --- Byzantine antiquities --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Design and construction --- Jerusalem --- Temple Mount (Jerusalem) --- Har ha-bayit (Jerusalem) --- Ḥaram al-Sharīf (Jerusalem) --- Ḥaram esh-Sherîf (Jerusalem) --- Moriah, Mount (Jerusalem) --- Mount Moriah (Jerusalem) --- Ierusalim --- Иерусалим --- Yerushalayim --- Jeruzalem --- Quds --- Ūrushalīm --- Kuds --- Kouds --- Erusaghēm --- Bayt al-Maqdis --- Jeruzsálem --- Jerusalem (Israel) --- Jerusalem (Palestine) --- ʻIriyat Yerushalayim --- Ierousalēm --- Gerusalemme --- Baladīyat al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds al-ʻArabīyah --- Jerusalem Arab Municipality --- Qods (Jerusalem) --- ירושלים --- القدس --- al-Quds --- قدس --- Jerusalén --- Antiquities, Roman --- Buildings, structures, etc.

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