The history of Jerusalem : the early Muslim period, 638-1099 / [print] editors Joshua Prawer, Haggai Ben-Shammai. - Jerusalem : Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi ; 1996. New York : New York University Press, (c)1996. - xvii, 443 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm.

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The political history of Jerusalem during the early Muslim period The physical infrastructure The authorities and the local population Christian communities in Jerusalem The Jewish community The Karaites The Yeshiva of Eretz Israel, its literary output and relationship with the Diaspora The Temple and the city in liturgical Hebrew poetry Jerusalem in Jewish apocalyptic literature Christian attitudes towards Jerusalem in the early Middle Ages The Muslim view of Jerusalem : the Quran and Hadith Art and architecture in Jerusalem in the early Islamic period Coins of Jerusalem under the Umayyads and the Abbasids Moshe Gil -- Dan Bahat -- Moshe Gil -- Amnon Linder -- Moshe Gil -- Haggai Ben-Shammai -- Avraham Grossman -- Joseph Yahalom -- Avraham Grossman -- Joshua Prawer -- Izhak Hasson -- Myriam Rosen-Ayalon -- Yaakov Meshorer.



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