Volume 45, Number 2 · February 5, 1998
The Dangers of Divinity
By Peter Partner
The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem
by Oleg Grabar
Princeton University Press, 232 pp., $65.00
Oleg Grabar brings more to the task of describing early Islamic Jerusalem than scholarship. A much-respected historian of Islamic architecture, he also has immense knowledge of the complex and mostly unhappy history of the city, and of how the three faiths that believe the city is holy have made and unmade its religious monuments. His theme is the way in which the main monuments of Islamic Jerusalem came into existence during the first two centuries after the Muslim conquest of the seventh Christian century. He also considers their relationship with the Christian monuments of the preceding Byzantine rule.
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