ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the narrative emerging from modern Muslim sources on the question of the affinity of Jews to the Temple Mount and the location of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The variety of sources analyzed in this section is wide: modern history books, research articles, transcripts of academic and media conferences, and religious writings of leading sages and clerics. The picture that emerges here is completely different from the one that emerges from the first chapter – the sources, all of them, almost without exception, completely deny Jewish affinity for the Temple Mount or reduce it to insignificance and irrelevance. The studied sources do not recognize and they doubt the existence of Jewish temples and deny a religious or national connection of the Jews to the place where the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock now stand.
