AN N EA 10W Lecture 15: jerusalem week 8 lect 1
Document Summary
Islam: description of man"s relationship with god (allah) Kaaba: shrine at mecca that is pre-islamic but becomes main muslim holy city. Salat: prayer five times a day to mecca. Abrahamic line now cleanses the kaaba of idols. Jerusalem and mecca represent the establishment and the continuation of the covenant. Jerusalem reffered to only in passing (suras 4 and 17) Islam in the time of the prophet mohammad. The first hijrah from mecca to yathrib (medina) 622 ce. Change of qiblah jerusalem to mecca 624/5 ce. Campaigns outside of arabia by 633 ce (persia, syria, iraq) Caliph umar (a companion of the prohets ) takes jerusalem 637-8ce. 633-4 abu bakr takes control of arabian tribe, begins moving armies towards the levant. 640 iraq and greater syria (sham) taken from byzantine/perisan forces. After visiting the anastasis, umar requests to see the temple mount, and specially the mihrab of. Dome of the rock completed in 692 72nd yr of the muslim era .
