This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinian Arab nationalism and Zionism (Jewish/Israeli nationalism) as a nationalist symbol that legitimizes the respective movements' claims to Palestine/Eretz Israel. Whereas historically, the site's significance had always been understood in religious terms, from the late-nineteenth century onward, its significance became reconfigured within the context of modern, nationalist discourses--a Palestinian one and a Zionist one. In neither case, however, did the site become secularized, even...