Nine Quarters of Jerusalem Quotes

“The Core truth of Jerusalem today, it seems to me, is a jagged dislocation between appearance and reality. Whatever you see here is not really what's going on.”
― Matthew Teller, Nine Quarters of Jerusalem

“while at the same time insisting that the pursuit of illumination remain within the limits of the shariah. Conservative and dismissive of scientific rationality, it was Al-Ghazali more than anyone else who made Sufism respectable.”
― Matthew Teller, Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City