Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note on Transliteration
Abbreviations
Prologue
Chapter 1. The Holy Land and Jerusalem: Singing Praise to Sacred Space
Chapter 2. Jerusalem in the Imagination of the Prophet and His Companions
Chapter 3. The “Furthest Place of Worship”: Muslim Tradition and Modern Scholarship
Chapter 4. The Islamization of Umayyad Jerusalem: The Role of Mu‘āwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
Chapter 5. ‘Abd al-Malikand the Temple Mount: Revisiting S. D. Goitein and Oleg Grabar
Chapter 6. The So-Called Umayyad Administrative Center
Chapter 7. The Dome of the Rock and Arabic Historiography
Chapter 8. The “Meaning” of the Dome of the Rock
Chapter 9. Religion and Local Politics: Praising Native Abodes
Appendix: The Early Caliphs, 632–833 CE
Selected Bibliography
Index