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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reiter, Yitzhak (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.