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Israel/Palestine

Mosby

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10. But the Islamic architectural developments in J'lem were political in nature.

Reply to hack89 (Reply #9)

Fri Sep 1, 2017, 12:08 PM

Sep 2017

The Umayyad dynasty built the dome of the rock, al-Aksa and other structures in the region to improve their standing and weaken the control of the arabian caliphs in the Ummah.

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