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In the Shadow of the Wall - The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187-1967 (Paperback)
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In the Shadow of the Wall - The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187-1967 (Paperback)
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The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the
Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days
after the June '67 War, Israeli forces razed the Quarter, its
narrow alleys widened and homes removed, to create the Western Wall
Plaza. With this book, Vincent Lemire offers the first history of
the Maghrebi Quarter-spanning 800 years from its founding by
Saladin in 1187 to house North African Muslim pilgrims through to
its destruction. To bring this vanished district back to life,
Lemire gathers its now-scattered documentation in the archives of
Muslim pious foundations in Jerusalem and the Red Cross in Geneva,
in Ottoman archives in Istanbul and Israeli state archives. He
engages testimonies of former residents and looks to recent
archaeological digs that have resurfaced household objects buried
during the destruction. Today, the Western Wall Plaza extends over
the former Maghrebi Quarter. It is one of the most identifiable
places in the world-yet one of the most occluded in history. In the
Shadow of the Wall offers a new point of entry to understand this
consequential place.
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