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    | | | 9 THE UMAYYAD DOME OF THE ROCK IN JERUSALEM Oleg Grabar Irs a coanrrace oF ctasicn:Isave ‘gous wang thatthe Propet hime Sind Malay Mada nd Teresi fhe tie hl places of the fats All ahres ens were paces of plgrinage ed ia the Serge eearementstred ori, td trios sored « monet exper dio Medea writ sad modern sels tdwavelrs haven dered the religoae tepogranty ofthe Min oly places a the igifcance ofthe amervesracureseeted fn there ured sot Bu the probier n nt ‘lyon of deeption and entation Toe ‘tetlon mle beled Whether te foot endear of oly places sod thee Pen artetrleprein ate from the tales tines of Tolan, td not whe and hy hoe iendeatons were ade and he thelr historical context. For the morgue of ‘Madinah, for instance, we posets the ms terly study by J. Sauragee, who succeeded, on (he base of texts and 2 limited archeological 2 Asoag the Mi by place Jers oct sin gern sigh len fart place thn he (ve Arabian stetunrzn The Palen cy wes ‘ore ingortn in Omarys, Ayybiy and Mame thes then under the "Albis a he iy ak ‘Bough Boh ofthe Inver dpa nk west ae fa eptiig dansged rwomunents on the Haram At ‘is a, levees to ye bad lal pris ‘ate hin aa easel bay ae Nased Route, 1G. LaStngs in Paltne Pri Tet Society (Gereser PPTS), vl 4, endo, 196, p23" OF the is imgortnce was Sly ead by ape igen ad epecially mtn, groupe he 0 Iain at the td of & B Gohan The her! ‘bcgrnind of the erection ofthe Dome of he Rech, ‘ear ofthe American Oreetal Seis (cee JAOB), wo 70 (1950), yp. to4108. documentation, in reconatrctng in etal the ature of this centeal monument of Islamic ‘religious architecture in the Umayyad period. In the cae of Jerusalem, the problem pre- sents itself difeendy, Fist, in dealing with the Hlaram al-Sharif we are not dealing with 4 ne boly aes, sin Madina bet with one most ancient sacred gpots on earth, Second, in Jerusalem, the monaments them selves are better known. The Dome of the Rocks stl asendally the Umayyad building, ‘The Aged mosque, to be sure, bas undergone numerous reconstrutions, but recent studies by K. A. C, Creawel, J. Sauvage, and expe- cially R. W. Hamilton have given usa good ides of the nature of the Umayyad mosque, ‘The problem, therefore, is neither reconttae- tion nor dating, bt esenilly interpretations if we consider the Jong tradition of Mount Morish as a sacred place, what was its sige rifeance in the eyes of the Moline? The fa42't or religious guidebooks for pilgrims of lazer times provide us with am answer for the period which followed the Cramades, but ray be questioned whether all the complex traditions reported about the Haram at that time had already been formulated when the area was taken over by the Arabs. its location, throagh” its inscription, and through ita mosaics, the Dome of the Rock Itself provides us with three strictly conten ‘porary documents, which have act 30 far been fully exploited ia an attempt to define the meaning of the structure at the time of its ‘onstruction. The Dome of the Rock is enpe- ally important in being not only the exrlet ‘remaining monument of alam, bat, i al ikel- hood, the earliest major constrtion built by the new mastera of the Near Eat, The fist 224 ——~ EARLY ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE 34 rooqus in Kafah, Bapeab, Fest, and Jero- Salem were certainly not very imposing stroc- tures; lie i known about Mu'twiyahsseca- Jes constractons in Damascus, but itis not ‘key thae they were dons on'a very lavish scale. The Dome of the Rock, on the other [Rand has remained to thie day one of the most remathable architectural and artistic achieve ‘ments of lam. Te is therefore imporeant to Attempt to understand ite meaning to those ‘pho lived when it as bile Discusion of the mearing of Jerusalem, and especially of the Haram

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