Al-Masjid al-Aqsa continues today as an important educational and religious center for the people of Jerusalem, and the many thousands of visitors who travel to it every year from all parts of the world, as well as an enduring symbol of unity and high aspiration for the nearly two billion Muslims inhabiting our planet. Yet very few people have more than a superficial knowledge of its spiritual foundations, extraordinary history, or the reasons for its centrality to Middle East politics and world peace.
The book of Al-Masjid al-Aqsa seeks to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation of this important site through an encyclopedic overview of its art and architecture, presented in the context of the events, functions and institutions that inspired it. Integrating the diffuse scholarship of different eras and disciplines into a coherent whole through the means of a comprehensive guided tour, Al-Masjid al-Aqsa enables the reader to comprehend the meaning and significance of the site while exploring it through some of the most outstanding photography on the subject ever gathered together in one volume.
By: Robert Spiker
Size 36 x 48 cm
464 pages
First edition 2017
9786039076209
