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Islamic courts --- Islamic law --- Islamic shrines --- Mosques --- Waqf

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In 2006, a dispute broke out regarding an initiative by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (backed by Israeli authorities) to construct a Museum of Tolerance (MoT) in West Jerusalem. The museum was to be built on a plot of land that in the past had been part of the historic Muslim Mamilla Cemetery. Debate centered on whether construction of a museum dedicated to human dignity on Muslim cemeterial land was justified. Yitzhak Reiter presents the public and legal dilemmas at the individual level, the political level, and at the universal level, integrating a multidisciplinary approach inv

Arab-Israeli conflict -- Law and legislation. --- Building laws -- Jerusalem. --- Cemeteries --Law and legislation -- Jerusalem. --- Islamic cemeteries -- Jerusalem -- History. --- Mamilla cemetery (Jerusalem) -- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Museum of Tolerance and Human Dignity (Jerusalem) -- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Jerusalem. --- Building laws --- Muslims --- Islamic cemeteries --- Jewish museums --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Law and legislation --- Museum of Tolerance and Human Dignity (Jerusalem) --- Mamilla cemetery (Jerusalem) --- Trials, litigation, etc.

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This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the logic that underlies centuries of "sharing," exploring when and why sharing gets interrupted-or not-by conflict, and the policy consequences. These essays map the choreographies of shared sacred spaces within the framework of state-society relations, juxtaposing a site's political and religious features and exploring whether sharing or contestation is primarily religious or politically motivated. Although religion and politics are intertwined phenomena, the contributors to this volume understand the category of "religion" and the "political" as devices meant to distinguish between the theological and confessional aspects of religion and the political goals of groups. Their comparative approach better represents the transition in some cases of sites into places of hatred and violence, while in other instances they remain noncontroversial. The essays clearly delineate the religious and political factors that contribute to the context and causality of conflict at these sites and draw on history and anthropology to shed light on the often rapid switch from relative tolerance to distress to peace and calm.

Sacred space. --- Conflict management --- Religious aspects.