Abstract
This article deals with one of the architectural components of the Umawī al-Masjid al-Aqṣā1 during ʿAbd al-Malik’s reign (r. 65/685-86/705), namely, the existence of seven miḥrābs under seven domes, most probably in the southern part (wall?) of the mosque. It also discusses the controversy among early Muslim scholars, who flourished from the end of the first/seventh to the mid-second/eighth century, regarding the miḥrāb (pl. maḥārīb) in the mosques, mainly according to ḥadīth literature.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 339-432 |
| Number of pages | 94 |
| Journal | Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue number | 49 |
| State | Published - 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Al-Aqṣā Mosque
- Arculf/Adomnán
- Early Islamic mosques
- Early Umawīs
- Mediaeval Islamic Jerusale
- Miḥrāb
- Muʿāwiya
- The Dome of the Rock
- ʿAbd al-Malik
- ḥadīth literature