The city of Jerusalem

by C. R. Conder

[456] See my volume, “Heth and Moab,” 1st edit., p. 377; Besant and Palmer, “Jer.,” p. 78; El Y’aḳûbi (c. 874 A. D.).

[457] Ḳorân, xvii. 1.

[458] Arculphus, “Situs quippe ipsius urbis a supercilio aquilonali montis Sion incipiens.”

[459] Prof. Hayter Lewis, “Holy Places of Jer.,” 1888, p. 64. Eutychius is there quoted as saying, “Abdil Maleci Ebn Mervan mittens hic Hierosolyma, templum auxit donec petram in ipsum inferet, hominesque Hierosolyma peregrinari jussit.” Before this the “templum” was the Aḳṣa only.

[460] Ḳorân, cxii., lvii. 2, iv. 169, xix. 34–7, xvii. in. See de Vogüé, “Temple de Jérusalem,” p. 84; Besant and Palmer, “Jerusalem,” pp. 86–8.

[461] De Vogüé, “Temple de Jérusalem,” pl. xxxvii.

[462] Ibid., pp. 91, 92.

[463] Mejîr el Dîn (c. 1520 A. D.). See Guy le Strange, “Pal. under Moslems,” p. 153.

[464] See “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., 1883, pp. 246–50.

[465] Guy le Strange, “Pal. under Moslems,” pp. 91, 144–5, quoting the “Muthîr el Ghirâm,” 1351 A. D., ch. vi.