The Dome of The Rock or Qubbat al-Sakhra is the beautiful Muslim shrine in the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was fully restored in the last half-century. This book tells the story of the Dome of the Rock, from the first fateful decades of its creation on the esplanade built during the reign of Herod for the Second Jewish Temple to its engulfment in the clashes of the Crusades and the short-lived Christianization of all of Jerusalem, to its modern acquisition of different and potent meanings for Muslims, Christian, and Jewish cultures.