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Jerusalem: Hashemite Quest for Legitimacy

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Jordan’s position regarding Jerusalem changed over time with the aim to maintain Hashemite legitimacy while coping with many internal and regional challenges, namely, Israel, Palestinian, and Arab neighbours. Jordan’s policy emanates mainly from the quest of the Hashemite monarchs for legitimacy as rulers of Jordan in light of political challenges from the Palestinians of both banks of the Jordan River, from the Israelis and other competing Arab states. The custodianship over the third Islamic holy site—Al-Haram al-Sharif—serves the Hashemite Jordan as a religious symbol of legitimacy, underlining some 700 years of Hashemite leadership of Mecca as servants of the holy shrines of Islam to be complemented with a special attachment to the Nobel Sanctuary in Jerusalem.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Katz, Jordanian Jerusalem, p. 100 and note 44 on p. 175; on the Hashemites’ attachment to Jerusalem see also Abdullah, I. a.-H. (1979).

  2. 2.

    Azaryahu and Reiter.

  3. 3.

    Abduallah, Al-Takmila, p. 88.

  4. 4.

    Gelber, Israeli-Jordanian Dialogue 1948–1953, p. 12.

  5. 5.

    Musa, Ayam la tunsa, p. 347.

  6. 6.

    Reiter, Jerusalem and Its Role in Islamic Solidarity, p. 135.

  7. 7.

    The Guardian, 21 July 1951.

  8. 8.

    Katz, p. 113.

  9. 9.

    Har-Zvi, From Abdullah to Abdullah, p. 83.

  10. 10.

    Later on, Israeli scholars used it to belittle the status of Jerusalem for the Muslims. Reiter, Jerusalem and Its Role In Islamic Solidarity, p. 69.

  11. 11.

    Halabi, Baladiyyat al-Quds al-Arabiyya.

  12. 12.

    Har-Zvi, p. 100.

  13. 13.

    Ibid., p. 95.

  14. 14.

    Katz, p. 148.

  15. 15.

    Ibid. p. 284.

  16. 16.

    Dumper, The Politics of Jerusalem, p. 168.

  17. 17.

    Dumper, Jerusalem Unbound, p. 76.

  18. 18.

    The Jordan Times, 6 August 1988; Reiter, Islamic Institutions, p. 50.

  19. 19.

    Merhav and Giladi, p. 189.

  20. 20.

    Dumper, Jerusalem Unbound, p. 133.

  21. 21.

    Klein, Jerusalem: The Contested City, p. 173.

  22. 22.

    Har-Zvi, p. 254; David, Changes in Jordan’s Positions.

  23. 23.

    David.

  24. 24.

    Har-Zvi, p. 289.

  25. 25.

    David.

  26. 26.

    Reiter, Contested Holy Places in Israel-Palestine, p. 70.

  27. 27.

    David.

  28. 28.

    http://jcpa.org/the-agreement-on-jerusalem-between-the-palestinian-authority-and-jordan-initial-implications/

  29. 29.

    http://jcpa.org/the-agreement-on-jerusalem-between-the-palestinian-authority-and-jordan-initial-implications/

  30. 30.

    http://jcpa.org/the-agreement-on-jerusalem-between-the-palestinian-authority-and-jordan-initial-implications/

  31. 31.

    Reiter, The Eroding Status Quo, p. 29.

  32. 32.

    Al-Rai, 25 September 2014.

  33. 33.

    Al-Rai, 25 September 2014.

  34. 34.

    Reiter, The Eroding Status Quo, p. 141.

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Reiter, Y. (2019). Jerusalem: Hashemite Quest for Legitimacy. In: Kumaraswamy, P.R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9166-8_18

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