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The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously used religious sites in the world. The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a fourth-century Christian church that had been erected over a temple of Jupiter. Incredibly, despite the recent war, the mosque has remained almost unscathed, but over the centuries has been continuously rebuilt after damage from earthquakes and fires. In this comprehensive biography of the Umayyad Mosque, Alain George explores a wide range of sources to excavate the dense layers of the mosque's history, also uncovering what the structure looked like when it was first built with its impressive marble and mosaic-clad walls. George incorporates a range of sources, including new information he found in three previously untranslated poems written at the time the mosque was built, as well as in descriptions left by medieval scholars. He also looks carefully at the many photographs and paintings made by nineteenth-century European travelers, particularly those who recorded the building before the catastrophic fire of 1893 --

Mosques --- Architecture, Umayyad --- Umayyad dynasty. --- Jāmiʻ al-Umawī al-Kabīr (Damascus, Syria) --- Damascus (Syria) --- Church history.

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Architecture, Umayyad --- Islamic architecture --- Archaeological geology --- Landscape archaeology --- Landscape construction --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Architecture omeyyade --- Architecture islamique --- Géoarchéologie --- Archéologie du paysage --- Espaces verts --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Construction --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Géoarchéologie --- Archéologie du paysage --- Congrès --- Congresses.

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Architecture religieuse --- Eglises orientales --- Oosterse kerken --- Religieuze bouwkunst --- Architecture, Byzantine --- Religious architecture --- Liturgy and architecture --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Church decoration and ornament --- Architecture byzantine --- Liturgie et architecture --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Eglises --- Décoration et ornement --- Churches, Byzantine --- Catalogs --- Jordan --- Antiquities, Byzantine --- -Architecture, Umayyad --- -Church architecture --- -Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Architecture, Gothic --- Church buildings --- Umayyad architecture --- Byzantine architecture --- Byzantine revival (Architecture) --- -Architecture, Byzantine --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Décoration et ornement --- Architecture, Umayyad --- Church architecture --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Architecture, Byzantine - Jordan - Catalogs --- Churches, Byzantine - Jordan - Catalogs --- Jordanie --- Eglise --- Jordan - Antiquities, Byzantine

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The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. When was it built? What meanings was it meant to convey to viewers at the time of its construction? These are questions that have preoccupied historians of Islamic art and architecture, and numerous interpretations of the Dome of the Rock have been proposed. Marcus Milwright returns to one of the most important pieces of evidence: the mosaic inscriptions running around the two faces of the octagonal arcade. His detailed examination of the physical characteristics, morphology and content of these inscriptions provides new evidence about the chronology the building and the iconography of the Dome of the Rock.

Islamic inscriptions --- Architecture, Umayyad --- Art, Umayyad --- Inscriptions islamiques --- Architecture omeyyade --- Art omeyyade --- Qubbat al-Sakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Islamic mosaics. --- Islamic mosaics --- Architecture, Umayyad. --- Art, Umayyad. --- Islamic inscriptions. --- Inschrift. --- Mosaik. --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Middle East --- Felsendom Jerusalem. --- Jérusalem - Ḥaram al-Sharīf. --- Felsendom Jerusalem --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem). --- Jérusalem --- Ḥaram al-Sharīf. --- Inschrift --- Mosaik --- Umayyad art --- Umayyad architecture --- Mosaics, Islamic --- Muslim mosaics --- Mosaics --- Inscriptions, Islamic --- Muslim inscriptions --- Inscriptions --- Jerusalem. --- Dome of the Rock (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Moschea di Omar (Jerusalem) --- Cupola della Roccia (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Mosque of Omar (Jerusalem) --- Ṣakhrah al-Musharrafah (Jerusalem) --- כיפת הסלע (מסגד : ירושלים) --- قبة الصخرة (مسجد : القدس) --- قبة الصخره --- al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds --- Baladīyat al-Quds al-ʻArabīyah --- Bayt al-Maqdis --- Erusaghēm --- Gerusalemme --- Ierousalēm --- Ierusalim --- ʻIriyat Yerushalayim --- Israel --- Jerusalem Arab Municipality --- Jerusalem --- Jerusalén --- Jeruzalem --- Jeruzsálem --- Kouds --- Kuds --- Quds --- Ūrushalīm --- Yerushalayim --- Jérusalem - Ḥaram al-Sharīf.