Jerusalem: the biography

Judaism. The world of David ; The rise of David ; The Kingdom and the Temple ; The kings of Judah ; The whore of Babylon ; The Persians ; The Macedonians ; The Maccabees ; The Romans arrive ; The Herods ; Jesus Christ ; The last of the Herods ; Jewish wars : the death of Jerusalem

Paganism. Aelia Capitolina

Christianity. The apogee of Byzantium ; Sunset of the Byzantines : Persian invasion

Islam. The Arab conquest ; The Umayyads : the Temple restored ; The Abbasids : distant masters ; The Fatimids : tolerance and lunacy

Crusade. The slaughter ; The rise of Outremer ; The golden age of Outremer ; Stalemate ; The Leper-King ; Saladin ; The Third Crusade : Saladin and Richard ; The Saladin dynasty

Mamluk. Slave to sultan ; Decline of the Mamluks

Ottoman. The magnificence of Suleiman ; Mystics and messiahs ; The families

Empire. Napoleon in the Holy Land ; The new romantics : Chateaubriand and Disraeli ; The Albanian conquest ; The evangelists ; The new city ; The new religion ; Arab city, imperial city ; Russians

Zionism. The Kaiser ; The Oud-Player of Jerusalem ; World war ; Arab revolt, Balfour Declaration ; The Christmas present ; The victors and the spoils ; The British Mandate ; The Arab revolt ; The dirty war ; Jewish independence, Arab catastrophe ; Divided ; Six day.