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Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Traditions in the Art of Seventh-Century Jerusalem

With Lawrence Nees, professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware. Investigate the Haram al-Sharif (also known as the Temple Mount) during the half century after the city’s capture by Muslim forces in about 638, the earliest use of the area for Islamic prayer, and the two surviving structures, the small Dome of the Chain and the famous Dome of the Rock. Learn how unexplored sources—ranging from early texts from monastic Britain to remains of churches in Syria and synagogues in the Galilee and Golan—along with neglected features of the two domed buildings shed new light on the use and interpretation of the earliest Islamic art in Jerusalem. Part of Sunday at the Met—Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition.











When: Sun., Mar. 18, 2012 at 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
212-535-7710
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With Lawrence Nees, professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware. Investigate the Haram al-Sharif (also known as the Temple Mount) during the half century after the city’s capture by Muslim forces in about 638, the earliest use of the area for Islamic prayer, and the two surviving structures, the small Dome of the Chain and the famous Dome of the Rock. Learn how unexplored sources—ranging from early texts from monastic Britain to remains of churches in Syria and synagogues in the Galilee and Golan—along with neglected features of the two domed buildings shed new light on the use and interpretation of the earliest Islamic art in Jerusalem. Part of Sunday at the Met—Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition.

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