Jerusalem: The Endless Crusade - Hardcover

Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517594765 ISBN 13: 9780517594766

Publisher: Crown, 1995

Synopsis

Andrew Sinclair details the struggle for the Holy City from its foundation to the modern era as he tells the fascinating story of the Crusade that in fact continues in our own time. Illustrations.

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air details the struggle for the Holy City from its foundation to the modern era as he tells the fascinating story of the Crusade that in fact continues in our own time. Illustrations.

From Publishers Weekly:

This vibrant chronicle unravels the intertwined politics of Jews, Muslims and Christians over the centuries. Sinclair, historian (The Sword and the Grail), biographer and novelist, maintains that the three major monotheisms all embraced the idea of the elect, the Chosen People of God, which led to their continual conflict, misunderstandings and clashes for control of Jerusalem, which each faith claimed as a holy city. Beginning with King David's construction of a capital city in Jerusalem around 1000 B.C., through the Crusades down to current tensions between Jews and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, he weaves a stirring narrative encompassing the Knights Templars' transmission of oriental mysticism and sacred architecture to the West, Masonic rites and practices, the 12th-century Muslim terrorist sect of Assassins, medieval persecution of Jews in Western Europe, and Israel's wars with Arab states. Sinclair writes with impartiality and rueful historic perspective about a city "always more of a vision than a fact, a dream that could only lead to a sad awakening." Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Crown
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0517594765
• ISBN 13: 9780517594766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 295