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Medieval Jerusalem : Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews /

Medieval Jerusalem" examines an old question that has recently surfaced and given rise to spirited discussion among Islamic historians and archeologists: what role did a city revered for its holiness play in the unfolding politics of the early Islamic period? Was there an historic moment when t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lassner, Jacob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Holy Land and Jerusalem : singing praise to sacred space
  • Jerusalem in the imagination of the prophet and his companions
  • The furthest place of worship : Muslim tradition and modern scholarship
  • The Islamization of Umayyad Jerusalem : the role of Muawiyah b. Abi Sufyan
  • Abd al-Malik and the Temple Mount : revisiting S.D. Goitein and Oleg Grabar
  • The so-called Umayyad administrative center
  • The Dome of the Rock and Arabic historiography
  • The meaning of the Dome of the Rock
  • Religion and local politics : praising native abodes
  • Appendix : The early caliphs, 632-833 CE.