Part I: The Beginnings of Syriac Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; 1 Early Syriac Pilgrims to Palestine; 2 The Four Legendary Pilgrimages to Jerusalem of the West; 3 Rabbula of Edessa and Benjamin of Nehardea: Jerusalem as a Stage in the Formation of the Monk; 4 The Ideal of aksenoyutho: John of Ephesus Portraying Syriac Women as Pilgrims to Jerusalem; 5 Against the Pilgrimage to Jerusalem: Philoxenos of Mabug, ????yahb I, Rabban Hormizd, and the Promotion of Local Tradition; 6 The Motif of Travelling to Jerusalem in the Monastic Histories of Thomas of Marga and ????den?h ? of Basra; 7 A Survey into Syriac Liturgical Theology and its Genealogical Interrelation with Jerusalem; 8 The Symbol of the Holy Wood of Jerusalem in the Consciousness of Syriac Christians; Part II: Syriac Christians and the Tradition of the Holy Places of Palestine following the Islamic Conquest of Jerusalem (638-639); 1 Syriac Sources and the Muslim Conquest of Jerusalem: Myths and Compilations in Syriac Sources; 2 ????yahb III and the Syriac Christians of the Holy City; 3 Timotheus I and the East Syriac Bishopric of the Holy Land; 4 West Syriac Bishops of Jerusalem; 5 A Brief Attempt at a Patristic Perspective: Jerusalem as Viewed through Political and Interreligious Identitary Cliches; Part III: The Portrayal of Jerusalem in Syriac Chronicles and Poems on the Second Islamic Conquest and Subsequent Period, and the Presence of Syriac Pilgrims in Palestine in the Late Medieval Period; 1 ?al?? ad-Din’s Conquest of Jerusalem in Syriac Literature; 2 Syriac Communities in the Holy Land and the Holy City of the Middle Ages; 3 Syriac Pilgrimages to the Holy City after the Second Muslim Conquest