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Sir Martin John Gilbert CBE FRSL (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) [1] [2] was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill , the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust .
In 2005 Imam Ibrahim Mudayris said in a sermon broadcast in Palestinian Authority TV: "With the establishment of the state of Israel, the entire Islamic nation was lost, because Israel is a cancer spreading through the body of the Islamic nation, and because the Jews are a virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers". [133] [134]
The Islamization of Jerusalem refers to the process through which Jerusalem and its Old City acquired an Islamic character and, eventually, a significant Muslim presence. The foundation for Jerusalem's Islamization was laid by the Muslim conquest of the Levant, and began shortly after the city was besieged and captured in 638 CE by the Rashidun Caliphate under Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second ...
The history of Islam is believed by most historians [1] to have originated with Muhammad's mission in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE, [2] [3] although Muslims regard this time as a return to the original faith passed down by the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, with the submission (Islām) to the will of God.
Histoire Des Relations Entre Juifs Et Musulmans Des Origines À Nos Jours [A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day]. Translated by Todd, Jane Marie; Smith, Michael B. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691151274. Gilbert, Martin (2010). In Ishmael's house: a History of Jews in Muslim Lands.
Lela Gilbert in The Jerusalem Post writes that General Mustafa Hafez, appointed by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser to command Egyptian army intelligence, was the one who founded the Palestinian fedayeen units in Egypt "to launch terrorist raids across Israel's southern border."
[323] [324] [325] On 26 May Nasser declared, "The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel". [326] Israel considered the Straits of Tiran closure a Casus belli. Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq signed defence pacts and Iraqi troops began deploying to Jordan, Syria and Egypt. [327]
Martin Gilbert, British historian [21] Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian; Gustave Glotz, French ancient Greek historian [2] Shelomo Dov Goitein Arabist, historian, ethnographer [citation needed] Eric F. Goldman, U.S. modern historian [2] Yosef Goldman, author of Hebrew Printing in America [22] Yossi Goldstein, Israeli biographer [citation needed]