A Concise History of the Middle East

544 • Index

Istanbul Military Academy, 282
Italy, 197,213,260,262,264

Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 280,281
Jacobites, 19, 56,135, 272
Ja'fari, 89
Jaffa, 208,213,215, 277, 307
Jamal al-Din, 189,196
Janissaries, 148,150,151,152,153,155,
158,159,175
massacre of, 176
Japan, 169,264,345, 355,402,427
Jarring, Gunnar, 335, 341, 342, 343
Jawhar, 91
Jehovah, 272
Jem, 144
Jemal (Young Turk), 197,212
Jenghiz (Genghis) Khan, 88,102,103
Jerash, 18
Jerusalem, 64, 74,98,99,212,213,272
King David Hotel bombing in, 292
prayer toward, 33, 36,38
Jesus Christ, 18,19, 30,45,46, 56,123
Jewish Agency, 279,281,283, 284, 285, 289,

292, 309

Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs, 433
Jewish National Fund, 276
Jewish rebellion, 18
Jews. See also Hebrews; Israel; Palestine;
Zionism
aliyah of, 274,276
Arabs and, 269-270
Ashkenazim, 10
assimilation of, 273
in dispersion, 272-273
immigration to Palestine, 217,279,280,
282,283, 284,285, 286,287,289,425
in Islamic community, 10, 35
Muhammad and, 35,37,38,40
nationalism of, 271-272
as Olim, 27A, 276,277,283
as one nation, 270
Ottoman Empire and, 277
rebellion of, 18
Revisionists, 280

Russian, 274,276,277

as scapegoats, 273

settlements in Palestine, 216,311,324,

330,334,348,363,364,365,388,389,

411,413,414,415,416,439,440,441

types of, 10

Jihad, 49,55, 80,185,210

Jinns, 30,44

}izya,76, 115

Job, 46

Johnson, Lyndon, 324,331,334,337,338

Johnston, Eric, 322

Jonah, 46

Jordan, 18,24,299. See also Transjordan

basic statistics for, 530f

Britain and, 299

Jordan River dispute in, 322

Lebanon and, 391

waters dispute, 322

Judaism, 30,95,113, 271-274, 354

Islam and, 35,269

Judgment Day, 31,45,46,108,424

Juhala, 158

Jumayyil, Amin, 391,392,408

Jumayyil, Bashir, 391

Jumblat, Kamal, 357, 360

Junayd (shaykh), 152,153

Jundishapur,21,82,119

June 1967 War, 10, 324, 329-331,343,350,

352,361

aftermath of, 332-334,333map

background to, 324

military forces in, 331

outcome of, 332

Jurisprudence, 108,109

Quran and, 109

Ka'ba, 26, 30, 33, 36,47,48,80,81

Kabul, 96,434

Kalb, 66,68

Kamil, Mustafa, 194

Kara-Khitay, 101

Karasi, 142

Karbala, 67

Karlowitz, Treaty of, 150,158,160

al-Kawakibi, Abd al-Rahman, 207