Throughout history, Jerusalem and its Holy Places have been the objects of fierce religious controversy over worship rights, such as the Holy Sepulchre inter-Christian disputes and the Har Ha Bait/Haram Al Sharif (Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary) IsraeliJewish/Palestinian-Muslim disputes. This multidisciplinary study offers two competing political ways of interpreting these disputes and the ArabIsraeli conflict in general: the state/national (territorial) perspective focuses on Israelis and Palestinians as the two main groups entitled to possession of and worship in Jerusalem s Holy Places; the...