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In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of ldquo;sacredrdquo; architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate eramdash;the period in the first half of the twentieth century when Britain held sovereignty over Palestine. While examining the relation between monuments and mass violence in this context; he documents Palestinian; Zionist; and British attempts to advance competing arguments concerning architecturersquo;s utility to politics. Succumbing neither to the view that monuments are autonomous figures onto which political meaning has been projected; nor to the obverse claim that in Jerusalem shrines are immediate manifestations of the political; Monk traces the reciprocal history of both these positions as well as describes how opponents in the conflict debated and theorized their own participation in its self-representation. Analyzing controversies over the authenticity of holy sites; the restorations of the Dome of the Rock; and the discourse of accusation following the Buraq; or Wailing Wall; riots of 1929; Monk discloses for the first time that; as combatants looked to architecture and invoked the transparency of their own historical situation; they simultaneously advancedmdash;and normalizedmdash;the conflictrsquo;s inability to account for itself.This balanced and unique study will appeal to anyone interested in Israel or Zionism; the Palestinians; the Middle East conflict; Jerusalem; or its monuments. Scholars of architecture; political theory; and religion; as well as cultural and critical studies will also be informed by its arguments.