Tamar (Hrsg.) Mayer

Jerusalem

Idea and Reality

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This is a multidisciplinary study of one of the world's great cities, that is of enormous, historical, religious and political significance. Ever since the Temple crowned the skyline of Jerusalem, the city has captured the imagination of religious scholars, artists, politicians, and lay people, creating for Jerusalem an aura that transcends the boundaries of location, time, and reality. The essays in this volume realize the complexity of a city like Jerusalem, especially in terms of the many moods it invokes in those who cherish it, and how its many faces (both real and imagined) came to be formed and reformed throughout the centuries as a re… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mourad, Suleiman A. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-134-10286-0
EAN: 9781134102860
Produktnummer: 14827394
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 5'719 KB
Abbildungen: 37 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 35 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen

Über den Autor

Tamar Mayer is a Professor of Geography at Middlebury College and the editor of Women and the Israeli Occupation: the politics of change (Routledge, 1994) and Gender Ironies of Nationalism: sexing the nation (Routledge, 2000). Her research interests focus on the interplay among nationalism, gender, and sexuality, particularly in the Middle East, and on the relationships among nationalism, landscape, and memorySuleiman Ali Mourad is Assistant Professor of Religion at Smith College, USA. His research focuses on early Islamic history and religious thought, including the sanctity of Jerusalem. He is the author of Early Islam between Myth and History: al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship (Brill, 2005).