Islam · Texts & transmission
The Dome of the Rock displays Qur’anic inscriptions
691/692 CE
The Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik sponsored the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Its monumental inscriptions used Qur’anic language to express Islamic beliefs in a city sacred to several traditions. The building also drew on artistic and architectural practices familiar in the Byzantine world.
Why it matters
The shrine demonstrates that scripture traveled through architecture and public inscriptions as well as manuscripts, while religious communities shared and reworked artistic forms.
About the date
Conventional completion date expressed across the conversion from 72 AH.
Jerusalem
City of the monument; the event concerns its early building and inscriptions.
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