Jerusalem: the biography

Part 1. Judaism The world of David The rise of David The kingdom and the temple The kings of Judah The whore of Babylon The Persians The Macedonians The Maccabees The Romans arrive The Herods Jesus Christ The last of the Herods Jewish wars : the death of Jerusalem Part 2. Paganism Aelia Capitolina Part 3. Christianity The Apogee of Byzantium Sunset of the Byzantines : Persian invasion

Part 4. Islam The Arab conquest The Umayyads : the temple restored The Abbasids : distant masters The Fatimids : tolerance and lunacy Part 5. Crusade The slaughter The rise of Outremer The golden age of Outremer Stalemate The leper-king Saladin The third crusade : Saladin and Richard The Saladin dynasty Part 6. Mamluk Slave to Sultan Decline of the Mamluks

Part 7. Ottoman

The magnificence of Suleiman

Mystics and messiahs

The families

Part 8. Empire

Napoleon in the holy land

The new romantics : Chateaubriand and Disraeli

The Albanian conquest

The evangelists

The new city

The new religion

Arab city, imperial city

Russians

Part 9. Zionism

The kaiser

The oud-player of Jerusalem

World war

Arab revolt, Balfour declaration

The Christmas present

The victors and the spoils

The British mandate

The Arab revolt

The dirty war

Jewish independence, Arab catastrophe

Divided

Six days

Epilogue

Family trees.