Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Confrontation and Co-existence
Herausgeber: Breger, Marshall J.; Hammer, Leonard; Reiter, Yitzhak

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the major generators of conflict and toleration at shared holy places in Palestine and Israel. Examining the religious, political and legal issues, the authors show how the holy sites have been a focus of both conflict and cooperation between different communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 643g
• ISBN-13: 9780415549011
• ISBN-10: 0415549019
• Artikelnr.: 28175944

Autorenporträt

Marshall J. Breger is a Professor of Law at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America where he teaches Administrative Law, Church and State, International Law, and Legal Issues of the Mid East Peace Process. A contributing columnist to Moment magazine, he writes and speaks regularly on both legal issues and issues of Jewish public policy and has published in numerous law reviews and periodicals. Yitzhak Reiter teaches at the Conflict Studies Program of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science of Ashkelon Academic College. Between 1978 and 1986 he served as the Deputy Advisor on Arab Affairs to three Israeli Prime Ministers and is very active in projects of Jewish-Arab dialogue inside Israel. Leonard Hammer is Associate Professor at Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus. He lectures in the fields of public international law and international human rights, and has published books, articles, and chapters pertaining to these areas. He has received a number of fellowships and grants to conduct research on international law, freedom of religion and conscience, migrant workers, and holy places.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Legal Regulation of Holy Sites 3. Protection of Holy
Places in International Law: Objective and Subjective Approaches 4. Wars
and Sacred Space: The Influence of The 1948 War on Sacred Space in the
State of Israel 5. The Third Kind of Holy Places: The Case of Nachmanides'
Cave in Jerusalem 6. The Waqf in Israel Since 1965: The Case of Acre
Reconsidered 7. Holy Places in Urban Spaces: Foci of Confrontation or
Catalyst for Development 8. The Pessimist's Guide to Religious Coexistence
9. Contest or Cohabitation in Shared Holy Places: The Cave of the
Patriarchs and Samuel's Tomb 10. Treatment of Antiquities on the Temple
Mount/ Al-Haram Al-Sharif 11. The Shihab Al-Din Mosque Affair in Nazareth:
A Case Study of Muslim-Christian-Jewish Relations in the State of Israel
12. Holy Shrines (Maqamat) in Modern Palestine/Israel and the Politics of
Memory 13. Self-Empowerment through the Sacred Culture and Representation
in the Urban Landscape: The Mosque of Hassan Bey and the Arab Community of
Jaffa 14. The Head of Husayn Ibn Ali: Its Various Places of Burial and the
Miracles that it Performed