Where heaven and earth meet
Subtitle: Jerusalem's sacred esplanade
By: editors, Oleg Grabar and Benjamin Z. Kedar
Contributors: Ḳedar, B. Z.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jamal and Rania Daniel series in contemporary history, politics, culture, and religion of the Levant of the University of Texas Press; Jamal and Rania Daniel series in contemporary history, politics, culture, and religion of the Levant
Publisher: Yad Ben-Zvi Press; University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jerusalem; Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780292722729
Other titles: Jerusalem's sacred esplanade
Notes: Map on lining paper.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-406).
Table of contents: title: Tenth century BCE to 586 BCE: House of the Lord (Beyt YHWH) / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz; title: 538 BCE-70 CE: The Temple (Beyt ha-Miqdash) and its Mount / Joseph Patrich; title: 70-638: The Temple-less Mountain / Yoram Tsafrir; title: 635/638-1099: The Mosque of Jerusalem (Masjid Bayt al-Maqdis) / Andreas Kaplony; title: 1099-1187: The Lord's Temple (Templum Domini) and Solomon's Palace (Palatium Salomonis) / Benjamin Z. Kedar and Denys Pringle; title: 1187-1260: The Furthest Mosque (al-Masjid al-Aqsa) under Ayyubid rule / Michael Hamilton Burgoyne; title: 1260-1516: The Noble Sanctuary (al- Haram al-Sharif) under Mamluk rule, history / Donald P. Little; title: 1260-1516: The Noble Sanctuary (al- Haram al-Sharif) under Mamluk rule, architecture / Michael Hamilton Burgoyne; title: 1516-1917: Haram i Şerif, the Temple Mount under Ottoman rule / Amnon Cohen; title: 1917 to the present: Al-Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount (Har ha-Bayit) and the Western Wall / Yitzhak Reiter and Jon Seligman; title: 1917 to the present: basic changes, but not dramatic: Al-Haram al-Sharif in the aftermath of 1967 / Nazmi Al-Jubeh; title: A photographic dossier / Saïd Nuseibeh; title: The Haram al-Sharif as a work of art / Oleg Grabar; title: From priestly (and early Christian) Mount Zion to rabbinic Temple Mount / Rachel Elior; title: Christian memories and visions of Jerusalem in Jewish and Islamic context / Guy G. Stroumsa; title: The Holy Land, Jerusalem and the Aqsa mosque in the Islamic sources / Mustafa Abu Sway; title: The Temple Mount in Jewish thought (70 CE to the present) / Miriam Frenkel; title: The Temple Mount, a personal account / Machem Magidor; title: The Haram al-Sharif / Sari Nusseibeh; title: What do I think about when I imagine myself walking on the Temple Esplanade, al-Haram al-Sharif? / Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini; title: Epilogue.