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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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2017]
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Table des matières:
- 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.


