A Jerusalem Anthology

T.J. Gorton has published two books of Arabic poetry in translation and co-edited Lebanon: Through Writers' Eyes . His most recent book is Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici , a biography of seventeenth-century Lebanese prince Fakhr al-Din Ma'n. He is the editor of A Beirut Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries (AUC Press, 2015). Andree Feghali Gorton is a the author of Egyptian and Egyptianizing Scarabs and the co-editor of Lebanon: Through Writers' Eyes . She lives in London with her husband, T.J. Gorton.

Table of Contents
Introduction4
Acknowledgements5
Illustrations5
Geography of History and Belief6
Reality Check Kathleen Kenyon (1967)6
Convenient Proximity Alexander Kinglake (1844)6
Antiquity/Early Middle Ages7
A Very Early Pilgrim The Bordeaux Pilgrim (332-333 AD)7
Speaking in Tongues St Silvia of Aquitaine (ca 385 AD)7
Seljuk and Fatimid Period9
Incomparable Jerusalem Al-Muqaddasi (972 AD)9
An Iranian Pilgrim in Fatimid Times Nasir-i-Khusrau (1017 AD)10
Crusader Times12
Deeds of the Franks Anonymous chronicle, (1100-1101 AD)12
A Russian Abbot in Crusader Jerusalem Abbot Daniel (Danilo) (ca 1107 AD)13
Jerusalem in 1187 Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela14
Mamluke and Ottoman Era Travellers17
First Impressions of Jerusalem Harriet Martineau (1848)17
First Glimpse Pierre Loti (1895)19
Disappointed Expectations Gustave Flaubert (1849-50)19
A Flat and Unimposing View William Bartlett (1850)20
Dreary City Edouard Schuré20
The Grand Tour to the Holy Land22
Returning from an Excursion Buck Whaley (1789)22
A Visit to the Governor Alphonse de Lamartine (1832-33)22
A Grand Tour Day in Jerusalem Lady Catherine Tobin (1860)23
Jumping Cats and Chicken Coops Mark Twain (1869)24
The Grand Tour ends in Tourism Estelle Blyth (1914)25
Disappointed Tourists Sir Ronald Storrs (1922)26
Jewish Jerusalem27
The Second Temple Flavius Josephus (93-95 AD)27
The Wailing Wall Amy Fullerton (1872)28
Christian Monuments29
An Early Description Arculfus (ca 670 AD)29
The Holy Sepulchre Buck Whaley (1789)30
Babel in the Cathedral Pierre Loti (1895)31
The Church of the Nativity Amy Fullerton (1872)31
The Armenian Convent Gustave Flaubert (1849-50)32
Muslim Holy Places33
After the Reconquest Ibn Battuta (ca 1325 AD)33
The Al-Aqsa Mosque Evliya Çelebi (1648)33
The Al-Aqsa Mosque Al-Muqaddasi (972 AD)34
The Dome of the Rock Evliya Çelebi (1648)35
The Holy Rock Al-Muqaddasi (972 AD)35
Personal Vignettes37
A Fright in the Cave Isabel Burton (1875)37
An Imperial Journey Estelle Blyth (1898)38
Russian Pilgrims Gertrude Bell (1907)39
A Franco-French Experience François-René de Chateaubriand (1806-07)39
Spiritual Exuberance, Holy Fire and Cynicism41
Disorders in the Cathedral Henry Maundrell41
The Holy Fire Evliya Çelebi (1648)42
Easter Fervour and Renewal Grigorii Rasputin (1911)42
Street Life, Seasons and Celebration44
A Cleansing Rain Arculfus, ca 670 AD44
The Pigrimage Season Alexander Kinglake (1844)44
Seasonal Feasts Al-Muqaddasi (972 AD)45
Drought in the Holy City James Finn (1855)45
Spring in Jerusalem Mary Rogers (1860)46
Politics Consuls and Dignitaries48
The Geopolitical Dimension Karl Marx (1854)48
A Son is Born to Napoleon III James Finn (1856)49
A Bishop’s Household Estelle Blyth (1914)50
Early Twentieth-Century51
A Stormy Entrance into Jerusalem Gertrude Bell (1907)51
Wartime Hardship Sir Ronald Storrs (1917)51
Despised by All T E Lawrence (1918)52
Bibliography53
The Writers56