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the name ranks it third after Mecca and Medina
the first mosques were Quba and the Prophet''s
al-Aqsa is a mosque, not a church
al-Aqsa is a house of worship, not residence
the sources date the city''s surrender to 637
that is the Hijra year, not Jerusalem''s taking
that is Saladin''s recovery year
that is Constantinople''s year
the sources credit the Umayyad caliph
Saladin came five centuries after the building
al-Mansur was the Abbasid founder of Baghdad
Harun was a later caliph, not the builder
the sources date Saladin''s recovery after the battle
that is the year of its seizure, not recovery
that is Acre''s fall, not Jerusalem
the sources have Saladin recover it
the sources have prayer toward Jerusalem then the Kaaba
Jerusalem was the qibla first
Medina was never the qibla
the qibla was to Jerusalem then Mecca
it joins al-Aqsa, the Temple Mount and the Sepulchre
the city has centres for all three faiths
Muslims and Jews have centres there too
Jerusalem is among history''s most religious cities
it stayed under Islamic rule for centuries but the Crusader gap
it lasted centuries, not a year
Muslims recovered it in 1187 and ruled for centuries more
Muslims ruled it from 637
Abd al-Malik built the Dome over it
the Rock is in Jerusalem, not Mecca
the Rock is a sacred stone, not a castle
the Rock is a sacred place, not a market
accounts reach us from Islamic, European and Jewish sources
every faith and civilization wrote of her
Muslims wrote of her centuries before Europe
Jerusalem is among the most-written cities
Abd al-Malik was Umayyad, of Damascus
Abd al-Malik predates the Abbasids
the Ottomans came eight centuries later
the Mamluks ruled Egypt and Syria later
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