Muslim Responses to the Sanctity of the Temple Mount: Anti-Jewish and Christian Polemics

Muslim Responses to the Sanctity of the Temple Mount: Anti-Jewish and Christian Polemics

By Jacob Lassner

45 Minutes

Given at Northwestern University on May 4, 2005

Part of the conference on Jerusalem, City of Three Faiths: Histories of the Past, Present and Future, this lecture examines the medieval Muslim response to Jewish veneration of the Temple Mount and the Christian sanctification of the same area.