* Jerusalem’s importance lessened as Mecca’s grew: if Jerusalem had perhaps at one point approached Mecca and Medina as part of the haj –‘You shall only set out for the three mosques Mecca,Medina, and al-Aqsa,’ declared one of the hadith of al-Khidri – now under the Abbasids,Jerusalem was reduced to a ziyara, a pious visit.


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