This study presents the first comprehensive survey of the abundant early Islamic sources that recognize the historical Jewish bond to the Temple Mount (Masjid al-Aqsa) and Jerusalem. Analyzing these sources in light of the views of contemporary Muslim religious scholars, thinkers and writers, who – in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict – deny any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and promote the argument that no Jewish Temple ever stood on the Temple Mount. The book describes how this process of denying Jewish ties to the site has become the cultural rationale for UNESCO decisions in recent years regarding holy sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron, which use Muslim Arabic terminology and overlook the Jewish (and Christian) history and sanctification of these sites. Denying the Jewish ties to the Temple Mount for political purposes inadvertently undermines the legitimacy of Islam’s sanctification of Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock as well as the credibility of the most important sources in Arabic, which constitute the classics of Islam and provide the foundation for its culture and identity. Identifying and presenting the Jewish sources in the Bible, Babylonian Talmud and exegesis on which these Islamic traditions are based, this volume is a key resource for readers interested in Islam, Judaism, religion and political science and history in the Middle East.

Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

Reiter, Yitzhak

Dimant, Dvir

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This study presents the first comprehensive survey of the abundant early Islamic sources that recognize the historical Jewish bond to the Temple Mount (Masjid al-Aqsa) and Jerusalem. Analyzing these sources in light of the views of contemporary Muslim religious scholars, thinkers and writers, who – in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict – deny any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and promote the argument that no Jewish Temple ever stood on the Temple Mount. 
The book describes how this process of denying Jewish ties to the site has become the cultural rationale for UNESCO decisions in recent years regarding holy sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron, which use Muslim Arabic terminology and overlook the Jewish (and Christian) history and sanctification of these sites. Denying the Jewish ties to the Temple Mount for political purposes inadvertently undermines the legitimacy of Islam’s sanctification of Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock as well as the credibility of the most important sources in Arabic, which constitute the classics of Islam and provide the foundation for its culture and identity. 
Identifying and presenting the Jewish sources in the Bible, Babylonian Talmud and exegesis on which these Islamic traditions are based, this volume is a key resource for readers interested in Islam, Judaism, religion and political science and history in the Middle East.

Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount: The Rock of Our/Their Existence (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians has proven to beone of the most complex and intractable conflicts of our time, persistingfor more than a century despite the efforts of leaders inboth the Middle East and the West. In National Minority, RegionalMajority, Yitzhak Reiter reexamines the relationship between theJewish majority and the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel, focusingon the unique dynamic at work there between a religiously andethnically defined majority and a significant national minority withassurance and erudition. Reiter explores the complex factors thatinfluence the ethnonational conflict. Drawing extensively on thetheory of “interlocking conflicts,” the author chronicles the patternof alternating tranquility and rebellion in Jewish-Arab relations.Reiter’s meticulous research and nuanced analysis yield asophisticated interpretation of Israeli policy toward the Palestiniansand offer a powerful approach toward conflict management.

National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)

History

Middle East

Syracuse University Press

Contested Holy Places in Israel–Palestine

Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing understanding that conflicts in or over holy places differ from other territorial conflicts. A holy site has a profound meaning, involving human beliefs, strong emotions, "sacred" values, and core identity self-perceptions; therefore a dispute over such land differs from a "regular" dispute over land. In order to resolve conflicts over holy sites, one must be equipped with an understanding of the cultural, religious, social, and political meaning of the holy place to each of the contesting groups. This book seeks to understand the many facets of disputes and the triggers for the outbreak of violence in and around holy sites. It analyses fourteen case studies of conflicts over holy sites in Palestine/Israel, including major holy sites such as Al-Haram al-Sharif/the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and the Cave of the Patriarchs/Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in addition to disputes over more minor sites. It then compares these conflicts to similar cases from other regions and provides an analysis of effective and ineffective conflict mitigation and resolution tools used for dealing with such disputes. Furthermore, the book sheds light on the role of sacred sites in exacerbating local and regional ethnic conflicts. By providing a thorough and systematic analysis of the social, economic, and political conditions that fuel conflicts over holy sites and the conditions that create tolerance or conflict, this book will be a key resource for students and scholars of conflict resolution, political science, and religious studies.

Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing understanding that conflicts in or over holy places differ from other territorial conflicts. A holy site has a profound meaning, involving human beliefs, strong emotions, "sacred" values, and core identity self-perceptions; therefore a dispute over such land differs from a "regular" dispute over land. In order to resolve conflicts over holy sites, one must be equipped with an understanding of the cultural, religious, social, and political meaning of the holy place to each of the contesting groups.  This book seeks to understand the many facets of disputes and the triggers for the outbreak of violence in and around holy sites. It analyses fourteen case studies of conflicts over holy sites in Palestine/Israel, including major holy sites such as Al-Haram al-Sharif/the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and the Cave of the Patriarchs/Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in addition to disputes over more minor sites. It then compares these conflicts to similar cases from other regions and provides an analysis of effective and ineffective conflict mitigation and resolution tools used for dealing with such disputes. Furthermore, the book sheds light on the role of sacred sites in exacerbating local and regional ethnic conflicts.  By providing a thorough and systematic analysis of the social, economic, and political conditions that fuel conflicts over holy sites and the conditions that create tolerance or conflict, this book will be a key resource for students and scholars of conflict resolution, political science, and religious studies.

War, Peace & International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel

This book examines fatwas (rulings of Islamic law) issued by religious sages and clerics on issues of war and peace, with regard to the actual or future possibility of conducting a peace agreement between Muslim States and Israel. The analysis highlights Islamic law's adaptation to changing political realities in the modern model of international relations, as well as the changing concept of jihad and the current role of political fatwas. The book's contents include discussion of: the shari'a interpretations regarding war and peace in theory and practice * the Hudaybiyya Pact of 628 between the prophet Muhammad and the Quraysh infidels * Egyptian fatwas from 1947 to 1979 regarding peace with Israel * the 1995 debate between the late mufti of Saudi Arabia 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baz and the popular Islamist scholar Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi over the Oslo Accords * the Hamas hudna concept * the debate between Saudi Arabian muftis and Hezbollah sages over Israel's second war in Lebanon (2006) * a comparative study of the agreements that were signed between the Algerian leader 'Abd al-Qadir and the French in the 1830s. The book looks at Muslim religious scholars and leaders who present pragmatic interpretations and envision the natural relations between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds as a state of peace, shedding light on the built-in pluralism in Islam. It exposes the need for moderate Arab-Muslim leaders in order to contend with radical Muslim factions, so as to soften and limit Arab public opposition to signing a peace agreement with Israel and to enable normal relations with Israel after signing the agreement. The rulings of Islamic law cited in this book are likely to serve as a textual and intellectual basis for the public discourse on peace between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab States.

Liverpool University Press

Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem: Jewish/Islamic Conflict over the Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla Cemetery

In 2006 a dispute broke out regarding an initiative by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (backed by Israeli authorities) to construct a Museum of Tolerance (MoT) in West Jerusalem. The museum was to be built on a plot of land that in the past had been part of the historic Muslim Mamilla Cemetery, which since the 1980s has served as a municipal parking lot. Debate centred on whether construction of a museum dedicated to human dignity on Muslim cemeterial land was justified. The Northern Islamic Movement and a group of 70 academics and eight Israeli civil society organizations (including rabbis) opposed the project, but their petition to Israel's High Court of Justice failed. Yitzhak Reiter presents the public and legal dilemmas at the individual level (an act of insensitivity to the Muslim minority in Jerusalem); at the political level (the right of equal treatment by the state and the right to administer holy properties [waqf] according to religious law and rulings of shari'a [Islamic law] courts); and at the universal level (can conflict over a holy place be addressed objectively from the ideological/political positions that the place symbolizes, and is a secular civil court competent/appropriate to adjudicate a religious conflict). Research for this book integrates a multi-disciplinary approach involving history, identity politics, and conflict resolution. Sources include documents obtained from the Shari'a Court of Jerusalem and Israel's High Court of Justice, as well as Islamic law and Israeli civil law literature, reports of experts submitted to the courts, and personal participation of the author, including discussions with key players and informants. The Mamilla dispute reflects a microcosm of conflicts over religious and national symbols of cultural heritage as well as Jewish majority-Arab minority tensions within Israel.

منذ‭ ‬نهاية‭ ‬القرن‭ ‬السابع‭ ‬الميلادي‭ ‬إلى‭ ‬العصر‭ ‬الحديث،‭ ‬ساد‮ ‬في‭ ‬العالم‭ ‬الإسلامي‮ ‬الاعتراف‭ ‬بالصخرة‭ ‬الموجودة‭ ‬في‭ ‬الحرم‭ ‬القدسي‭ - ‬جبل‭ ‬الهيكل‭ ‬كموقع‭ ‬هيكل‭ ‬سليمان‭ ‬والهيكل‭ ‬بناه‭ ‬اليهود‭ ‬العائدون‭ ‬من‭ ‬بابل،‭ ‬كأساس‭ ‬لتقديسها‭ ‬على‭ ‬ايدي‭ ‬الإسلام ولبناء‭ ‬قبة‭ ‬الصخرة في‭ ‬سنة‭ ‬ 27 ‭ ‬هـ‭. ‬هذا‭ ‬التقليد‭ ‬هو‭ ‬بمثابة‭ ‬تبني‭ ‬التقاليد‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬في‭ ‬هذا‭ ‬الموضوع،‭ ‬وتُعرف‭ ‬العقيدة‭ ‬الإسلامية‭ ‬كاستمرار‭ ‬لفكرة‭ ‬التوحيد،‭ ‬من‭ ‬إبراهيم‭ ‬خليل‭ ‬الله‭ ‬وإلى‭ ‬النبي‭ ‬محمد‭ ‬صَلَّى‮ ‬ٱللّٰهُ‮ ‬عَلَيْهِ‮ ‬وَسَلَّمَ ،‭ ‬والخلفاء‭ ‬والسلاطين‭ ‬الذين‭ ‬تبعوه‭.‬‮ ‬تستعرض‭ ‬هذه‭ ‬الدراسة‭ ‬لأول‭ ‬مرة‭ ‬على‭ ‬نطاق‭ ‬واسع‭ ‬العديد‭ ‬من‭ ‬المصادر‭ ‬الإسلامية‭ ‬القديمة‭ ‬التي‭ ‬تعترف‭ ‬بالصلة‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬ووجود‭ ‬تاريخ‮ ‬يهودي‭ ‬في‮ ‬جبل‭ ‬الهيكل‭ ‬والقدس‭, ‬مع‭ ‬الاشارة‭ ‬الى‭ ‬واقتباس‮ ‬التقاليد‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬القديمة‭ ‬التي‭ ‬تقوم‭ ‬عليها‭ ‬هذه‭ ‬المصادر‭.‬\n‭ ‬بالمقارنة،‭ ‬تستعرض‭ ‬هذة‭ ‬الدراسة‭ ‬المؤلفين‭ ‬المسلمين‭ ‬المعاصرين‭ ‬الذين‭ ‬ينكرون‭ ‬الصلة‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬والتاريخ‭ ‬اليهودي‭ ‬بالحرم‭ ‬القدسي‭ ‬ويزعمون‭ ‬أنه‭ ‬لم‭ ‬يوجد‭ ‬أي‭ ‬معبد‭ ‬يهودي‭ ‬في‭ ‬القدس‭ ‬أصلا وليس‭ ‬لليهود‭ ‬أي‭ ‬علاقة‭ ‬تاريخية‭ ‬أو‭ ‬دينية‭ ‬بموقع‭ ‬المسجد‭ ‬الاقصى‭ - ‬جبل‭ ‬الهيكل‭. ‬يشكل‭ ‬هذا‭ ‬الإنكار‭ ‬اساسا‭ ‬لقرارات‭ ‬اليونسكو‭ ‬من‭ ‬السنوات‭ ‬الأخيرة،‭ ‬متجاهلة‭ ‬التاريخ‭ ‬والقداسة‭ ‬اليهودية‭ ‬والمسيحية‭ ‬في‭ ‬جبل‭ ‬الهيكل‭ ‬ومواقع‭ ‬دينية‭ ‬أخرى‭.‬‭ ‬\nيدعون‭ ‬الباحثون‭ ‬في‭ ‬هذه‭ ‬الدراسة‭ ‬أن‭ ‬منكري‭ ‬الارتباط‭ ‬اليهودي‭ ‬بالحرم‭ ‬القدسي‭ ‬يلحقون‭ ‬الأذى‭ ‬دون‭ ‬قصد‭ ‬بشرعية‭ ‬حرمة‭ ‬موقع‭ ‬المسجد‭ ‬الأقصى‭ ‬وقبة‭ ‬الصخرة‭ ‬للإسلام،‭ ‬كما‭ ‬يشكون‭ ‬في‭ ‬مصداقية‮ ‬أهم‭ ‬المصادر‭ ‬العربية‭ ‬والاسلامية،‭ ‬وهي‭ ‬أصول‭ ‬ثقافتهما‮ ‬وهويتهما‭.‬

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Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount: The Rock of Our/Their Existence (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)

Contested Holy Places in Israel–Palestine

Contested Holy Places in Israel–Palestine

War, Peace & International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel

War, Peace & International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel

Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem: Jewish/Islamic Conflict over the Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla Cemetery

Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem: Jewish/Islamic Conflict over the Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla Cemetery

قدس أقداسنا قدس أقداسهم ... و (Arabic Edition)