1st Edition
Contested Holy Places in Israel–Palestine Sharing and Conflict Resolution
Introduction Part I: Challenging the Status Quo 1. The 1929 Western Wall Strife 2. Post 1967 Struggle over Al-Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount 3. Intra-Christian Conflict at the Holy Sepulchre and Deir al-Sultan 4. (De)Constructing the Mughrabi Pathway 5. Breaking the "Custom of the Place" by the Women of the Wall Part II: Contesting Space and Representation at Holy Places 6. Imagining Holiness for Territorial Ends: Nachmanides Cave 7. The Plaza/Mosque Strife in Nazareth (Shihab al-Din) 8. Museumizing over the Dead: Mamilla Cemetery and the MOT 9. Judaizing David’s Tomb Part III: Demands to restore Past Rights 10. Diplomatic Challenge to the Status Quo at the Cenacle 11. The Beersheba Mosque/Museum 12. Restoring Pilgrimage to Mashhad Hussein in Ashkelon Part IV: Sharing Under Conflict 13. Sharing within Fighting: Hebron’s Shrine 14. Sharing and Co-existing at the Tomb of Samuel/Samwil Conclusion
Biography
Yitzhak Reiter is a professor of Middle East, Israel, and Islamic Studies. He chairs the Department of Israel Studies and is Head of the Research Authority at Ashkelon Academic College. He is a senior researcher at both the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research and the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
