Jerusalem: The Biography (126 page)

Hess, Rudolf,
411n

Hethoum II, King of Armenia,
279

Hezekiah, King,
34–9
,
355

Hezekiah’s Wall,
69n

Higher Arab Committee,
448

Hilkiah,
40

Hill of Evil Counsel,
440

Hillel,
149

Himmler, Heinrich,
456
,
480

Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von,
439n

Hindenburg (Allenby’s horse),
419–20

Hindu Kush,
50

Hippicus tower,
84
,
132

Hippocrates,
190n

Hiram, King of Tyre,
26

Hirsch, Baron Maurice de,
382

Hitler, Adolf,
65n
,
270n
,
382n
,
400
,
423n
,
436
,
447
,
450
,
452–5
,
459
,
461

meeting with Grand Mufti,
454–5

rise to power,
439–41

Hittites,
14–15
,
23

Hoess, Rudolf,
408

Hoffenstahl, Captain,
389–90

Holland,
294–5

Holocaust,
59
,
395
,
400
,
408n
,
440n
,
455n
,
457
,
463
,
487

survivors,
463–4

Yad Vashem memorial,
454n
,
483n

Holy Lance,
152
,
162
,
209

Holy of Holies,
3
,
6–7
,
27
,
62
,
72–3
,
85–7
,
112
,
125
,
129–30
,
510

and Arab conquest,
175–6
,
179

Holy Sepulchre,
see
Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Holy War Army,
448–9
,
470

Homer,
45

Homs,
405

Hood, Lord,
322

Horn, Father Eleazar,
309–10

Horns of Hattin,
246
,
248

Hoshayahu,
42n

House of Wisdom,
190
,
196

Hugh, Count of Jaffa,
222

Hungary,
342

hunting,
233

Hurcombe, Sergeant Fred,
418

Hurva Synagogue,
308n
,
330
,
349
,
352n
,
480
,
511

Hussars of Israel,
343n

Hussein, bin Ali (grandson of the Prophet),
180

Hussein, King of Hejaz (Sherif Hussein),
402–3
,
405–6
,
415
,
432

his tomb,
479
,
484

Hussein, King of Jordan,
477
,
484–5
,
488–90
,
505
,
507–8
,
515

and Six Day War,
490–6

Hussein, Saddam,
251
,
485

Husseini family,
308–9
,
329
,
360–2
,
364
,
394
,
423
,
429
,
434
,
439
,
483
,
489
,
491

Abd al-Kadir al-Husseini,
449
,
452
,
468–71
,
505n

Adnan al-Husseini,
519n

Faisal al-Husseini,
470
,
506–7
,
518n

Hussein Effendi al-Husseini,
385
,
391
,
399
,
401
,
417–18
,
420

Ismail al-Husseini,
385

Jamal al-Husseini,
453

Kamal al-Husseini, Grand Mufti Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Husseini,
307–8

Musa al-Husseini,
481–2

Musa Kazem al-Husseini,
424
,
430
,
433
,
445
,
449

Rabah Effendi al-Husseini,
364–5

Rafiq al-Husseini,
518n

Said al-Husseini,
468

Umar al-Husseini,
362

Uthman al-Husseini,
385

al-Husseini, Grand Mufti Haj Amin,
418
,
429–31
,
435–9
,
441
,
443
,
445–55
,
468–9

and Arab revolt,
448–54

meeting with Hitler,
454–5

political decline,
478
,
481
,
484–5

Huxley, Aldous, xix

Hyrcanus the Tobiad,
56–7
,
61n

Hyrcanus II,
70–2
,
74–6
,
79
,
81

Ibn al-Arabi,
203
,
213n

Ibn al-Qaysarani,
233

Ibn Asakir,
183

Ibn Battutah,
281

Ibn Ishaq,
172n

Ibn Khaldun, xviii, xxv,
179n
,
186
,
283–4

Ibn Killis, Grand Vizier,
193–4
,
200n

Ibn Shaddad, Baha al-Din,
251n
,
252
,
261–4

Ibn Taymiyya,
281

Ibn Tulun, Ahmed,
190–1

Ibn Unain,
253

Ibn Wasil,
265
,
270

Ibrahim Pasha ‘the Red’,
326–30
,
333–4

Idumeans,
71
,
125

al-Ikhshid, Muhammad Ibn Tughi,
191

Ikhshid tombs,
193n

Il-Ghazi,
203
,
219–20

Imad al-Din,
247
,
251n
,
254
,
258