Al Khalīl Al Raḥmān and the Castle of Saint Abraham. An approach to medieval Palestine from microhistory and local history.

Abstract

The main idea of our research is to make an approach to Palestine in the Middle Ages combining approaches of local history and microhistory. To this end, our work focuses on the millenary city of Al Jalīl/Hebron, a city of symbolism even with Jerusalem, for being the cradle Abraham, the father of the three monotheistic religions of the Mediterranean, venerated in the delimited era by Jews and Christians as well as by Muslims. In the local context of Hebron, we would further delimit the scope of study by focusing on the historical and religious core of the city, which is the sacred precinct of the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs. Thus, we will also review, as a "national" context, the general history of Palestine in the same period of the Middle Ag