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Jerusalem: The City Sanctified by Revelation Book Description: Jerusalem has been considered "sacred" since its earliest known history, and has never lost this position even after millennia have passed. The sanctity of the city, which turned into the city of revelation with the prophets, gained a different dimension with this process. Hz. Adam built a mosque here, and after the Flood, Hz. Noah's grandchildren spread the message of monotheism from here. Today, 3 out of every 5 people on earth consider this city sacred. All heavenly religions accept that the prophet-scented city is an earthly stepping stone to ascend to divine peace. Jews call Jerusalem "the city of God". Hz. In the city conquered during the time of David, Hz. Solomon built a temple, and later prophets praised this holy city. The ideal that kept the hopes of the Jews alive during the Babylonian exile was "the desire to return to Jerusalem one day". Hz. Although the city was kept at a distance in early Christianity as it was the scene of the sufferings of Jesus, IV. Jerusalem, which has gained its reputation since the 19th century, has also become the qibla and pilgrimage place of the Christian world. The "first qibla" of Islam is Jerusalem. Muslims, who started to pray towards Jerusalem since the birth of the new religion, made the city their qiblah for nearly fifteen years. The last link in the chain of prophethood is Hz. There are references to the city that witnessed the miracles of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in more than seventy verses in the Quran. There are many details about Jerusalem in hadith and sirah sources. Jerusalem, which was conquered during the time of Omer, became the "city of peace and tranquility" as its name suggests, where Muslims and non-Muslims lived comfortably under Muslim rule for centuries, and the sultans who ruled the world saw themselves as servants of Jerusalem.