Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Addendum (Handbook of Oriental Studies)

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Corpus Inscriptionum
Arabicarum Palaestinae
Handbook of Oriental Studies
Handbuch der Orientalistik
Section One
The Near and Middle East
Edited by
H. Altenmüller
B. Hrouda
B.A. Levine
R.S. O’Fahey
K.R. Veenhof
C.H.M. Versteegh
Volume 30
Corpus Inscriptionum
Arabicarum Palaestinae
Corpus Inscriptionum
Arabicarum Palaestinae
(CIAP)
Volume Four
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By
Moshe Sharon
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2009
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Sharon, Moshe.
Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP) addendum : squeezes in the Max van Berchem collection (Palestine, Trans-
Jordan, Northern Syria) : squeezes 1-84 / registered, photographed and studied by Moshe Sharon.
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CONTENTS v
To Bernard Lewis
vi CONTENTS
CONTENTS vii
CONTENTS
List of plates and maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Addenda
Addenda to CIAP I
To Ashqelon (#Asqal§n) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Addenda to CIAP II
To Caesarea (Qays§riyyah) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Gaza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Gesher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Ghuwaynah (kh.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
List of inscriptions according to sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Index of Qur"§nic verses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
viii CONTENTS
LIST OF SQUEEZES ix
LIST OF PLATES AND MAPS
PLATES
Pls. 1-23 Gaza
Pl.1 Gaza general view in a 19th century engraving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Pl.2 Great Mosque: bilingual inscription Greek Hebrew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Pl.3 Plan of the Great Mosque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Pl.4 Inscription from Dar#ah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Pl.5 Shaykh BashÊr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Pl.6 Lions of Baybars—Gaza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Pl.6a Lions of Baybars—Lydda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Pl.6b Lions of Baybars, St. Stephen’s Gate—Jerusalem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Pl.7 Blazon—Shaykh (NabÊ) Ily§s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Pl.8 Gaza No. 12: van Berchem’s reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Pl.9 Plan of Shaykh Zakariyy§ Mosque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Pl.10 Inscription No. 43: detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Pl.11 MvB Carnet VII Page 124 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Pl.12 Inscription No. 48. Gaza 786 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Pl.13 Inscription No. 48: detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Pl.14 MvB Carnet VII Page 125. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Pl.15 Plan of Shaykh Kh§lid (Husseini). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Pl.16 Gaza No. 62–Gaza 821a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Pl.17 Gaza No. 65: van Berchem drawing of Blazon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Pl.18 Gaza No. 72: van Berchem’s copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Pl.19 Q§#ah Lane’s engraving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Pl.20 Gaza No. 79: van Berchem’s copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Pl.21 Gaza No. 83–965 (995). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Pl.22 Gaza No. 93–1216: van Berchem’s copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Pl.23 Greek Orthodox Church 1874: plan and section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Pl.24 Gesher inscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Pl.25 Khirbat Guwaynah at-TaÈt§: inscription. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
MAPS
Gatt’s Plan von Gaza 1887 (attached).
Map of Gaza (1931) Figs. P31, P31a.