Dear colleagues
It is my pleasure to inform you that my book on Jerusalem has just been
published. Enjoy your 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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