Islamic Anti Christian Inscriptions on Dome of the Rock God did not have a Son and Jesus was only a Messenger of God The Arabic Islamic inscriptions on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are perhaps among the most well known and well-studied inscriptions in the Western Literature. In this short article, we […]
Al-Aqsa Mosque/ The Night Journey In 680, fifty years after Omar’s conquest of Jerusalem, the Damascus-based Umayyad dynasty engaged in a struggle for control of the Muslim world with a rebel dynasty based in Mecca. The Umayyads opted to fight the rebels by damaging Mecca’s economy, which was based almost entirely on revenues from Muslim […]
The Yellow–Stripe for All Non-Muslims “The Code of Omar (Umar) … compelled all non-Muslims to wear a stripe of yellow. It prohibited them riding on horseback, directed them to use wooden stirrups, when riding mules, and forbade them erecting standing tombstones in their cemeteries. Their children could not be taught by Muslim teachers, they could […]
Temple Mount/ Mosque of Omar/ Christians/ Dome of the Rock “In insult towards the sons of Israel” the Greeks had converted the unhewn stone into a dunghill. The zealous Caliph, to whom this Rock was “the very first corner that was created of the whole earth,” set the example in cleansing it. He scooped up […]
Jewish Temple Denial There are noteworthy exceptions to the post-1967 trend. For example, Palestinian archeologist Dr. Marwan Abu Khalaf of al-Quds University has noted that a Christian pilgrim called Arculf, who spent nine months in Jerusalem around the year 670, wrote that “[o]n the site where the Temple once stood” a mosque had been erected […]
3,200 Years of Documented Presence of the Jewish People in the Land of Israel, Genesis 15:18-21 The historian James Parkes wrote: “During the first century after the Arab conquest, the caliph and governors of Syria and the Holy Land ruled entirely over Christian and Jewish subjects. Apart from the Bedouin in the earliest days, the […]
Umayyad, Abbasids, Fatimids, Persians, Turks Purely Arab rule, exercised from Damascus by the Umayyad dynasty, lasted a little over a century. The Umayyads were overthrown in 750 by their bitter antagonists, the Abbasids, whose two centuries of government was increasingly dominated first by Persians, then by Turks. When the Abbasids were in turn defeated by […]
“The invaders from the desert brought with them no tradition of learning, no heritage of culture to the lands they conquered … They sat as pupils at the feet of the peoples they subdued.” “But when we speak of ‘Arab medicine’ or ‘Arab philosophy’ or ‘Arab mathematics’, we do not mean the medical science, philosophy […]
Koran The most authoritative Arab statement, however, as to whom the Holy Land belongs is found in the Koran, the Islamic Scriptures: The fact is that the Koran agrees with the Bible that God (Allah) made a covenant with the Sons of Israel and assigned the Holy Land to the Jews (See the Koran, Sura […]
Mount of Olives, Christians, Jizyah Expulsion of Christians When he came within sight of the Holy City, ‘Omar exclaimed: “Ullah Acher (God is great). O God give us an easy conquest.” He then pitched his tent on the Mount of Olives and awaited response to his terms which read: “In the name of God, merciful […]