Jerusalem, the City of Herod and Saladin

Name: Jerusalem, the City of Herod and Saladin
Author: Besant, Walter

Besant, Walter

Jerusalem -- Description and travel; Jerusalem -- History

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[Illustration:

  _From a Photograph by_ C. F. TYRWHITT DRAKE,
    Esq.]      [_Frontispiece._
  THE DOME OF THE ROCK.
]

                               JERUSALEM,

                     THE CITY OF HEROD AND SALADIN.

                                   BY

                          WALTER BESANT, M.A.,

                      CHRIST’S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE.

      AUTHOR OF “STUDIES IN EARLY FRENCH POETRY,” ETC., ETC., ETC.

                                  AND

                          E. H. PALMER, M.A.,

        LORD ALMONER’S PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF
              CAMBRIDGE, AND FELLOW OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE.

                 AUTHOR OF THE “DESERT OF THE EXODUS.”
                            ETC., ETC., ETC.

[Illustration]

                                LONDON:
                        RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
                         NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
            =Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty.=

                                 1871.

               [_The Right of Translation is reserved._]




                                 LONDON
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                                PREFACE.


Very few words are needed to introduce this volume. It is intended to
give a history of the city of Jerusalem from about the year 30 to the
present time. This period includes the siege and capture by Titus, the
last revolts of the Jews, the Christian occupation of three hundred
years, the Mohammedan conquest, the building by the Mohammedans of the
Dome of the Rock, the Crusades, the Christian kingdom, the reconquest of
the city, and a long period of Mohammedan occupation, during which no
event has happened except the yearly flocking of pilgrims to the Church
of the Sepulchre, and an occasional quarrel among the monks.

There are here, surely, sufficient materials for the historian if only
he knows how to use them.

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Jerusalem, the City of Herod and Saladin

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