Geography
| Name of text: | Geography |
| Author of text: | Idrisi |
| Date of text: | 1154 |
| Date of person in text: | |
| Name of structure in text: | Dome of the Rock |
| Type of structure in text: | Mosque |
| Date of structure in text | 688-91 |
| Century of structure 1: | 7 AD |
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| Country in text: | Israel |
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| City in text: | Jerusalem |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | dome |
| Description of mosaic in text: | This Dome is overlaid with gold mosaic, and is of most beautiful workmanship, erected by the Muslim Khalifs. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 7 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | Le Strange, Guy, trans., Palestine under the Moslems (London: Alexander P. Watt, 1890), A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from AD 650 to 1500, translated from the works of the Mediaeval Arab Geographers, p. 131 Arabic text published in J. Gildemeister, Transactions of the German Palaestina-Verein (1885), vol. 8. |
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