place

Jerusalem

Places

The named holy city of hill and wall in Abrahamic speech. Not Zion as the height-word alone, and not Mecca as another pilgrimage pole.

Islam

  • Jerusalem appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an’s night-journey verse names the Furthest Mosque as the far sanctuary terminus. Traditional reading seats that sanctuary at Jerusalem. A named Jerusalem neighbor in that scripture’s journey speech, not Zion as a biblical hill dump and not Mecca.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).