Arabic-L:GEN:New Book on the Haram of Jerusalem

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Date:  10 May 2002
From:Andreas Kaplony <kaplony at oriental.unizh.ch>
Subject:New Book on the Haram of Jerusalem

Dear colleagues

It is my pleasure to inform you that my recent book on Jerusalem has been
published. Enjoy reading.

Best wishes, Andreas Kaplony

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The Haram of Jerusalem 324-1099: Temple, Friday Mosque, Area of Spiritual
Power. - Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002 (Freiburger Islamstudien
22). - XVII, 789 pages. - ISBN 3-515-07901-0. - E 100.-/sfrs.168.20

 From the Muslims' to the Crusaders' conquest Jerusalem is among the
world's best know cities. Its most outstanding and constant feature is
its
holiness shared by three religions (Muslim, Jewish and
Christian). Covering the Byzantine, the Marwanid, the Abbasid and the
Fatimid phase, this study describes not only the emergence of conceptions
with which the three religions share the city, but also their interaction
as well as the political circumstances and religious axioms which give
each conception its specific shape. Looking for these conceptions, the
holy area of the city, the Haram, has been chosen. This area of the
former
Temple was higly significant to all three religions. The analysis is
based
on a careful description of the Haram (focusing on topics like names and
traditions, architecture, rituals and customs, visions and dreams), and
on
the establishment of as many parallels as possible.
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PD Dr. Andreas Kaplony. Universitaet Zuerich, Orientalisches Seminar:
Wiesenstrasse 9, CH-8008 Zuerich, 0041-1-634 07 36/1, 0041-1-634 36 92
(Fax). Privat: Scheuchzerstrasse 135, CH-8006 Zuerich, 0041-1-361 29 41.
kaplony at oriental.unizh.ch

Arabic Papyrology School: www.unizh.ch/ori/aps

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