Contesting symbolic landscape in Jerusalem : Jewish/Islamic conflict over the Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla cemetery /
"In 2006 a dispute broke out regarding an initiative by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (backed by Israeli authorities) to construct a Museum of Tolerance (MoT) in West Jerusalem. The museum was to be built on a plot of land that in the past had been part of the historic Muslim Mamil...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton ; Chicago :
Sussex Academic Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Mamilla cemetery and the chronology of the dispute
- The struggle over the symbolic landscape : zionization versus Palestinization and Islamization
- The waqf in the national-religious struggle of the Arab-Muslim minority in Israel
- The struggle over the jurisdiction of the sharia court
- The sanctity of cemeteries in Islam : science, belief, and interpretation
- The Palace Hotel and other precedents of construction over Muslim cemeteries
- "what is abhorrent to you, do not do to your friend" : comparative legal perspective
- "hidden from sight" : the High Court verdict
- The role of judicial tribunals in resolving conflicts over holy places
- Conclusion
- Epilogue.