Jerusalem

1997 — RARE monograph on Islamic activity and institutions in East Jerusalem under Jordanian and Israeli rule from 1948 until after the peace accords between Israel, the PLO and Jordan. The author - Yitzhak Reiter, professor of Middle East, Israel and Islamic Studies at the Department of Land-of-Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College and a senior researcher at both the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, also discusses the Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli competence over the holy places in Jerusalem and the waqf (pious endowments) institution, which is in decline in many Muslim countries, but has been revived under Israeli rule. 240x160mm. IX+114 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly dirty. Cover left edge near spine slightly wrinkled. Spine edges slightly worn, upper edge bumped. Front whitepage bottom edge slightly stained. Else in good condition.