French romantic poet Chateaubriand writes: “You ought to see this nation in Jerusalem… The real owners (e.g Jews) of the country are as strangers and slaves in their own land. But no matter how they are oppressed, they still hope for the redeemer and meanwhile bend their heads in silence without complaining of their fate.” […]
“Ali Bey el-Abassi” (Domingo Badia y Leblich): Voyages en Afrique et en Asie. Paris 1814, 3 vols, III 129-157, 166-185. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
Chateaubriand, Franҫois René de: Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem et de Jérusalem à Paris … 2 vols. Paris 1812, I 375-381 II 1-181. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
**Seetzen, Ulrich Jasper: Reisen durch Syrien, Palästina, Phönicien, die Transjordanischen Länder, Arabia Petrea, und Unter Aegypten (Fr. Kruse). 4 vols. Berlin 1854-9, I 431 II 1-37, 55-64, 197-214, 274-293, 385-400 III 3, 4. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
Clarke, Edward Daniel: Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. 11 vols. London 1816-1824, IV 289-394. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
Source: Parkes, James. A History of Palestine From 135 A.D. To Modern Times. (p. 180–181).
There are villages populated wholly by settlers from other portions of the Turkish Empire in the 19th Century. There are villages of Bosnians, Circassians, and Egyptians. Source: Parkes, James William, History of the Peoples of Palestine, Hammondsworth, Great Britain, 1970, p. 212.
Schroedter, Joseph: See und Landreise nach Ostindien und Aegypten, auf die Berge Sinai und Horeb, nach Gaza, Rama, Damascus, Sydon. Tyrus, Jerusalem, Betlehem… Leipzig 1800. Spilsbury, J.B.: Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the campaignes of 1799 and 1800. London 1819, 36-42. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
Whaley, Buck: Memoirs, including his journey to Jerusalem (Sir Edward Sullivan). London 1906, 190-213, 220-225, 341, 342. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
In a letter to John Jay, Thomas Jefferson wrote about Jihad “We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their (e.g. Muslim) pretensions to make war (e.g. Jihad) upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no […]