Islam w Jerozolimie
Islam in Jerusalem

Summary/Abstract: In the last ten years Islam has gained much new territory in the Near East. The one city of equal importance to all three great monotheistic religions there is Jerusalem. What Jerusalem means to Muslims is plain from the history of their rule there. The first section of this article tells about the times before the Muslim conquest of the city. The second part focuses on the Muslim rule from 638 up to the time of the crusades. The next part provides an overview of the crusades and the hard times when the reins of control over the city were passing between the hands of Muslims and Christians. It then proceeds to describe the history of Jerusalem under the Turkish rule. The final section presents the modern history of the city.

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