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Adomnán, arculf and the mosque on the temple mount

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Abstract

Adomnán preserves the earliest surviving account in Latin of a mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, but his account poses a number of problems to students of Umayyad Jerusalem. This paper reviews two recent discussions of the historical value of his description of this mosque before concluding that he probably describes its appearance as it was being repaired c.660, following a great earthquake in 659.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)179-190
Number of pages12
JournalEriu
Volume66
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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