Jerusalem: The Biography

Ethiopian Church, 157n, 310, 517

Euclid, 190n

Eudocia, Empress, 153–7

Eudocia’s Wall, 69n

Eugénie, Empress, 355

Eugenius II, Pope, 234

Euphemius, 156n

Euphrates, river, 35, 42, 81, 210

Eusebius of Caesarea, 136, 145–8

Eustace of Grenier, 221

Eustochium, 151

Eutropia, 146n

Evliya Celebi, xxv, 290, 303–5, 309

Execration texts, 14n

executions, 356, 397, 403

see also crucifixion; stoning

Exodus, 460

Ezekiah, 74

Ezion-Geber, 26

Fabri, Felix, 286

Faisal, King of Iraq, 406–7, 420–1, 424–9, 431–3

Faisal II, King of Iraq, 490

Falashas, 157n

Falkenhayn, Field Marshal Erich von, 408–9, 416–17

Faraj, Sultan, 283–4

Farhi, Haim, 315, 322, 323n

Farouk, King of Egypt, 334n, 466, 482

Farran, Major Roy, 465–7

Farrukh, 297

Fast Hotel, 390, 401, 408, 417, 424, 451

Fatah, 488, 501–2, 505n, 507

al-Fatat, 403

Fatima (daughter of the Prophet), 172, 178, 187n, 194, 403n

Fatimid dynasty, 193–5, 197, 201–2, 203n

Fausta, Empress, 145, 146n

Felix, Antonius, 116, 119

Fellowes, Cornelius, 347n

Ferdinand, King of Aragon, 293–4

Field of Blood, 108, 160

Filastin, 394

Final Solution, 294, 436, 454–5, 457

Finn, James, 335, 341, 343–6, 348–9, 352–3, 444

First Wall, 69, 106n

Firyal, Princess, 488, 491

Fiscus Judaicus, 130, 133

Fisk, Pliny, 337

flagellation, 106–7

Flaubert, Gustave, xix, 344–5, 346

Fleming, James, 228n

Florence, 207n

Flourishing Edifice, 293

Foley, Major, 389n, 391

Ford, Henry, 423n

Forster, E. M., 443n

France, 296, 301, 310, 318, 330–1, 333–5, 341–3

and division of Middle East, 405, 407, 411, 414–15, 420–1, 424, 426, 431, 433

fall of, 454

and Suez crisis, 487

and Zionism, 414–15

Francis I, King of France, 355

Frankish customs, 230–1

Franklin, Benjamin, 336

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 395

Franz Joseph, Emperor, 355–6

Frederick Barbarossa, Emperor, 256

Frederick II, Emperor, King of Sicily, 266–70, 422n, 480

Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, 355–6, 375

Frederick of Regensburg, 228n

Frederick of Swabia, Duke, 256

French Revolution, 311, 317, 331, 374

Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden, 376

Fuad Pasha, Grand Vizier, 356

Fulcher of Chartres, 212–13

Fulk the Black, Count of Anjou, 201, 221

Fulk, Viscount of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, 221–5, 229, 233, 235n

fundamentalism, xvii, xix, 86n, 281, 447, 469, 506

Gabriel, Archangel, 169–70

Galen, 190n

Galerius, Emperor, 140

Gallipoli, 402

Gallus Caesar, 149–50

Galveston Plan, 382

Gamaliel VI, 154

Ganzak, 163

Garabedian, Yessayi, Armenian Patriarch, 363

Garden of Eden, 17

Garden of Gethsemane, 103, 162, 493

Garden Tomb, 365

Gate of the Chain, 138, 264, 279, 280n, 292n

Gate of the Cotton-Merchants, 280

Gate of the Divine Presence, 264

Gath, 19–20

Gaul, 72–3, 93, 112

Gaza, 49, 57n, 67, 70, 79n, 172, 240, 272, 302, 307, 407, 416, 433, 447n, 466

and Hamas and Intifada, 447n, 506–7, 509, 513

and Israeli war, 481, 503

Geba, 84n

Gedaliah, 44n, 309

Gehenna, 39–40, 281

Gemaraiah, son of Shaphan, 41n

Gemellus, 111–12

Geneva, 482

Genghis Khan, 157n, 280, 283, 375

Genseric, King of the Vandals, 130n

St George, 197n, 244

St George’s Cathedral, 363

St George’s School, 384, 442

George V, King, 321n, 363, 421

George II, King of Greece, 456

Georgia, 156n

Georgians, 106n, 281–2, 285, 296

Ger court, 484n, 515

Germanicus, 112

Germany, 270n, 373, 375, 377, 409, 426, 460

Nazi Germany, 439–41, 449, 455–6

Gerold, Patriarch, 268

Gessius Florus, 121–3

Gezer, 26, 29n

al-Ghadiya, Abdel Latif, 308

al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid, 203n

Ghosh,Jaber Abu, 330

Gibeon (Tell al-Ful), 19, 21

Gihon Spring, 14–15, 21–2, 25, 36

Gladstone, William, 350n, 388

Glaphyra, 93

Glubb, General Sir John (Glubb Pasha), 477–80, 484–5, 490

Gnostic Gospels, 109n, 139n

God-fearers, 118, 120

Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lorraine, 208, 210–12, 214–15, 227, 249, 320

Goedsche, Hermann, 380n

Gogol, Nikolai, 341–2, 344

Goitein, S. D., 199n

Golan, 9, 70, 138

gold, 28, 31

Golden Calf, 198

Golden Gate, 164, 165n, 184, 185n, 195, 213, 227, 265n, 347, 388, 522

Goldsmith, Frank, 441

Golgotha, 106, 138, 147, 365

Goliath, 19

Goliath’s Spring, 275

Goodman, Alan, 503

Gordon, General Charles ‘Chinese’, 365

Goren, Rabbi Shlomo, 497, 508n

Gort, Field Marshal Viscount, John, 462

Gospel of Judas, 139n

Gospel of Peter, 109n

Gospel of Philip, 139n

Goths, 139

Government House, 431, 440, 442, 451, 474, 481, 495

Grabar, Oleg, 488, 507n

Graham, Stephen, 367, 387–8

Grammar School, 265n

Granada, 200n, 283–4

Grand Mufti, see Husseni, Amin

Grand New Hotel, 363

Grant, President Ulysses S., 357n

Gray, Colonel Nicol, 466

Greece, 60, 81, 88, 124, 327, 454n, 457

Greek Fire, 207, 211

Greek language, 55

Greek love, 134n

Greeks, 53–64, 72, 106n, 112, 115, 134

see also Orthodox Church

Greenberg, Raphael, 511n

Gregory IX, Pope, 267

Gregory of Nyssa, Saint, 152, 156

Grodno, 307

Gulf of Aqaba, 26

Gur, Colonel Motta, 496–7

Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, 244–8, 255, 260n

Habiru, 14, 15n

Hadassah Hospital, 440, 473, 481, 495

hadith, 184

Hadrian, Emperor, 133–9, 369

Hafiz Pasha, 346

Haganah, 430, 438–9, 450–3, 456–7, 463, 465, 468–72, 478–80, 486, 503n

Haggai, prophet, 49

Haifa, 447, 459n, 475

Hajim Bey, 419–20

al-Hakim, Caliph, 197–200, 203

Halevi, Judah, 230

Hama, 405

Hamas, 447n, 506–7, 509, 513

hammam bathhouses, 360

Hammurabi, 14

Hamza, 177