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Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount

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Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount

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Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount book

The Rock of Our/Their Existence

Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount

DOI link for Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount

Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount book

The Rock of Our/Their Existence
ByYitzhak Reiter, Dvir Dimant
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 9 June 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032977
Pages 140
eBook ISBN 9781003032977
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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Reiter, Y., & Dimant, D. (2020). Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount: The Rock of Our/Their Existence (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032977

ABSTRACT

This study presents the first comprehensive survey of the abundant early Islamic sources that recognize the historical Jewish bond to the Temple Mount (Masjid al-Aqsa) and Jerusalem. Analyzing these sources in light of the views of contemporary Muslim religious scholars, thinkers and writers, who – in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict – deny any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and promote the argument that no Jewish Temple ever stood on the Temple Mount.

The book describes how this process of denying Jewish ties to the site has become the cultural rationale for UNESCO decisions in recent years regarding holy sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron, which use Muslim Arabic terminology and overlook the Jewish (and Christian) history and sanctification of these sites. Denying the Jewish ties to the Temple Mount for political purposes inadvertently undermines the legitimacy of Islam’s sanctification of Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock as well as the credibility of the most important sources in Arabic, which constitute the classics of Islam and provide the foundation for its culture and identity.

Identifying and presenting the Jewish sources in the Bible, Babylonian Talmud and exegesis on which these Islamic traditions are based, this volume is a key resource for readers interested in Islam, Judaism, religion and political science and history in the Middle East.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|47 pages

Early Islamic sources

chapter 2|31 pages

Contemporary Islamic sources

chapter 3|23 pages

Contemporary sources that recognize a Jewish bond with the Temple Mount

chapter |5 pages

Summary and conclusions

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