5 Citations
The Dome of the Rock: Origin of its Octagonal Plan
- History
- 2007
The Dome of the Rock or Qubbat al-Sakhra is a monument in the city of Jerusalem built on the platform at the top of Mount Moriah known as Bayt al-Maqdis or Bayt al-Muqaddas (the Holy House) and, by…
Why was the Dome of the Rock built? A new perspective on a long-discussed question
- HistoryBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- 2017
Abstract The existing discussion regarding the motives for building the Dome of the Rock revolves around two suggestions: that the incentive for building was the fierce competition between ʿAbd…
“From Polis to Madina” Revisited – Urban Change in Byzantine and early Islamic Palestine*
- HistoryJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society
- 2011
The transformation of cities in the Byzantine and early Islamic Near East was discussed by a number of scholars in the last century. Many of them adopted a traditional approach, claiming that the…
The Walls of Jerusalem in the Early Islamic Period
- HistoryThe Biblical Archaeologist
- 1991
During the seventh century C.E., Moslem tribes from the Arabian peninsula swept through the Middle East and North Africa, creating a vast new empire. Recent excavations have revealed that the…