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COPY LINK DOWNLOAD ----------------------------------- https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/B004DEPHKM ----------------------------------- Whose rock is enshrined inside the golden Dome of Jerusalem? The rock of Moses or of Muhammad? Kanan Makiya gathers together the stories, legends, and beliefs that define the Rock—the place where Adam landed in his fall from Paradise and where Abraham attempted to sacrifice his first-born where Solomon’s Temple stood and where Jesus preached the rock from which Muhammad ascended to heaven—and transforms them into a narrative of novelistic depth and drama. This brilliantly imagined, historically based account of the building of the Dome of the Rock reconstructs the paths of the actual individuals whose spiritual journeys revolved around the seventh-century lore of the Rock. The chief protagonist is Ka’b al-Ahbar, a learned Jew who accepted the prophecy of Muhammad and who accompanied the caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab during his conquest of the Holy City. The story is narrated by Ka’b’s son, Ishaq, who years later is commissioned to design the first monument of Islam, the Dome of the Rock. As he imagines the construction of the Dome—and the complex reasons behind its creation—Makiya gives us a meditation on the common terrain of the world’s three great monotheistic religions and a remarkable invest
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Whose rock is enshrined inside the golden Dome of Jerusalem? The rock of Moses or of Muhammad? Kanan Makiya gathers together the stories, legends, and beliefs that define the Rock—the place where Adam landed in his fall from Paradise and where Abraham attempted to sacrifice his first-born where Solomon’s Temple stood and where Jesus preached the rock from which Muhammad ascended to heaven—and transforms them into a narrative of novelistic depth and drama. This brilliantly imagined, historically based account of the building of the Dome of the Rock reconstructs the paths of the actual individuals whose spiritual journeys revolved around the seventh-century lore of the Rock. The chief protagonist is Ka’b al-Ahbar, a learned Jew who accepted the prophecy of Muhammad and who accompanied the caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab during his conquest of the Holy City. The story is narrated by Ka’b’s son, Ishaq, who years later is commissioned to design the first monument of Islam, the Dome of the Rock. As he imagines the construction of the Dome—and the complex reasons behind its creation—Makiya gives us a meditation on the common terrain of the world’s three great monotheistic religions and a remarkable invest
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The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem (Vintage International)
Whose rock is enshrined inside the golden Dome of Jerusalem? The rock of Moses or of Muhammad?
Kanan Makiya gathers together the stories, legends, and beliefs that define the Rock—th place
where Adam landed in his fall from Paradise and where Abraham attempted to sacrifice his first-born
where Solomon’sTemple stood and where Jesus preached the rock from which Muhammad
ascended to heaven—an transforms them into a narrative of novelistic depth and drama. This
brilliantly imagined, historically based account of the building of the Dome of the Rock reconstructs the
paths of the actual individuals whose spiritual journeys revolved around the seventh-century lore of the
Rock. The chief protagonist is Ka’bal-Ahbar, a learned Jew who accepted the prophecy of
Muhammad and who accompanied the caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab during his conquest of the Holy City.
The story is narrated by Ka’b#8217s son, Ishaq, who years later is commissioned to design the
first monument of Islam, the Dome of the Rock. As he imagines the construction of the Dome—an
the complex reasons behind its creation—Maiya gives us a meditation on the common terrain of the
world’sthree great monotheistic religions and a remarkable investigation into what the Rock
symbolizes—beond its various stories and names, beyond even the three faiths at whose heart it
sits.
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