Jerusalem: The Biography (127 page)

Imperial Hotel,
444
,
518

Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society,
368
,
386n

India,
50n
,
304
,
311
,
403

Indus, river,
54
,
57n

Industrial Revolution,
331

Intifadas,
503–4
,
507

Iran,
73
,
180n
,
181
,
186–7
,
454

Jewish community,
34n
,
48n

Iraq,
30
,
36
,
64
,
73
,
101
,
134
,
150
,
180n
,
186
,
218
,
234
,
236
,
382n
,
404

and Arab conquest,
172
,
178
,
180–1

and Arab Revolt,
403
,
405

and division of Middle East,
432
,
446
,
454
,
467–8

and Grand Mufti’s revolt,
448
,
454

and Islamic sultanate,
243
,
251
,
253
,
262

and Israeli wars,
477
,
494

Jewish community,
34n
,
48n
,
133
,
486

and Persian conquest,
161
,
163

Iraq War,
209
,
406

Ireland,
409

Ireneos, Patriarch,
520–1

Irgun Zvai Leumi,
439
,
450
,
453
,
457–60
,
464–7
,
470
,
472
,
475
,
479
,
503n

Isaac, son of Abraham,
16
,
27n
,
39n
,
86

Isaac Angelus,
263

Isabella, Queen of Castile,
293–4

Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem,
256n
,
265n

Isaiah, prophet,
33–5
,
38
,
95
,
97
,
100–1

Isfahan,
283

Ishbosheth,
21

Islam,
10
,
483

early,
170–1
,
174
,
176
,
178
,
180–1
,
184

and offers of conversion,
248–9

Ismail, Imam,
194

Ismail, Shah,
288

Israel

and Assyrian conquest,
31–4

coinage,
124
,
136

and dysfunctional democracy,
511n

founding of modern state, xxiv,
326
,
475–6

and the Maccabees,
65n

revolt against Romans,
123–4
,
136

and Six Day War,
492–8

and Suez crisis,
490

union and split with Judah,
21–2
,
25
,
30–1

war of independence,
458n
,
476–82

Israel Defence Forces,
452
,
491

Israelites, xviii,
15–20
,
25–9

Lost Tribes,
34
,
297n
,
322
,
337–8

Israelovsky Regiment,
311n

Israfil, Archangel of Death,
185n

Israiliyyat
,
176

Istanbul,
293
,
295–6
,
302–3
,
306
,
311
,
315n
,
327
,
330
,
333–5
,
342–3
,
356
,
360–1
,
370
,
377
,
389
,
393–4
,
400
,
402
,
405n
,
416n
,
454n

Italy,
71
,
73
,
143
,
269
,
270n
,
295

Italian Jews,
454

Iturea,
69

Ivan the Terrible,
146n

ivory,
28

Izzat Bey,
417

Jabiya,
174

Jabotinsky, Vladimir,
421
,
423
,
428–31
,
437–9
,
458–9
,
499

Jacob (Israel),
16

Jacob Baradeus,
157n

Jacobs, Julius,
426n

Jacobson, Eddie,
461
,
473

Jaffa,
268
,
271
,
310
,
329
,
339
,
355–6
,
363
,
394
,
418
,
448
,
450

and Crusades,
209–10
,
215–16
,
219
,
249
,
258
,
262

and Jerusalem railway,
348–9

and Napoleonic invasion,
312
,
316–18

and Parker fiasco,
391–2

see also
Joppa

Jaffa Gate,
104
,
208
,
268
,
288
,
292n
,
319
,
343
,
347
,
349
,
356
,
363–4
,
377
,
384
,
397
,
400
,
418–21
,
424
,
441
,
444
,
451–3
,
469
,
473
,
479
,
519

Jaffa Road,
356
,
363
,
384
,
417–18

St James,
115
,
119n