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16365, RE: Jerusalem in Islam
Posted by lambda, Thu Mar-22-01 12:23 PM
First - You proved my point that Mecca and its contents / surrounding areas have more importance than Jerusalem in Islam. Thank you.

Second - When is the first usage of the term Bayt al-Maqdis? Is it used (exactly as it is) in the Qur'an, or is it used later as a translation of what the Jews living there were calling it? You can translate between two similar languages, and although Arabic may be similar to Hebrew and Aramaic because it is partially derived from those two, there are closer languages, such as Hebrew and Aramaic. You can still translate between Hebrew and Aramaic, though.

Third - I never said that Muslims never conquered Jerusalem. I said that Palestinian Muslims never had an autonomous state with its capital in Jerusalem. Jerusalem was always controlled by foreign rulers.

Was Jerusalem ever the capital of a Muslim Palestinian nation? Let's look at the major Muslim dynasties,

Umayyad - nope
Abbasid - nope
Fatimid - nope
Ayyubid - nope
Mamluk - nope
Ottoman - nope