Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access Handbook of Oriental Studies Handbuch der Orientalistik Section 1, The Near and Middle East Edited by Maribel Fierro (Madrid) M. Şükrü Hanioğlu (Princeton) Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania) Florian Schwarz (Vienna) Volume 30 Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/ho1 Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae Volume Seven – J (2) – Jerusalem 1 By Moshe Sharon LEIDEN | BOSTON Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access The publication of this volume was supported by the Fondation Max van Berchem, Geneva. The Max van Berchem Foundation is a scientific foundation established in Geneva, Switzerland, in memory of Max van Berchem (1863–1921), the founder of Arabic epigraphy. Its aim is to promote the study of Islamic and Arabic archaeology, history, geography, art, epigraphy, religion and literature. It has subsidized the Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae since 1997. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/97019195 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 0169-9423 ISBN 978-90-04-44013-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-44056-2 (e-book) Copyright 2021 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 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Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access To Judy Always at my side encouraging, helping and caring Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access CONTENTS Foreword ............................................................................................................................. ix Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................... xii List of Plates ....................................................................................................................... xiii Max van Berchem ............................................................................................................. xv Addenda .............................................................................................................................. 1 Jerusalem ............................................................................................................................ 21 Bibliography ....................................................................................................................... 311 General Index .................................................................................................................... 319 Index of Qurʾānic Verses ................................................................................................. 325 List of Inscriptions according to Sites ......................................................................... 327 Figures Addenda ......................................................................................................................... 329 Inscriptions .................................................................................................................... 339 Dome of the Rock ........................................................................................................ 413 Sites .................................................................................................................................. 439 Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access FOREWORD The seventh volume of the CIAP dedicated to the inscriptions of Jerusalem during the first five centuries of the Islamic rule, follows the groundbreaking volumes of Max van Berchem’s Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum (MCIA), deux- ième partie, Syrie du Sud, tome premier Jérusalem “Ville”, tome deuxième Jérusalem “Ḥaram”, tome troisième Jérusalem “Planches.” The references to the Jerusalem vol- umes are “CIA 1”, “CIA 2,” and “CIA 3”. The reference to the first volume of the MCIA dedicated to Egypt (Première partie Égypte, 1903) is “CIA 1, Egypt.” Where there is no reference to the CIA or to any other publication, it means that the inscription is new and unedited. However, an inscription, which van Berchem recorded but did not include, for some reason, in the CIA, is treated as published, and the reference to it will be “Publication: MvB” combined with the reference to its place in van Berchem’s archives. In his volumes on the inscriptions of Jerusalem, van Berchem divided his study of the epigraphic material according to sites. He first divided the material into two parts, the first 143 inscriptions in the first volume are the inscriptions found in the city itself, outside the Ḥaram (Ville) and the ones found in the Ḥaram (nos. 144 to 300) make up the second volume (Ḥaram). He divided this volume into three parts according to the major monuments; first the inscriptions found in, or next to the es- planade of the sanctuary with its relatively minor sites, followed by the inscriptions of the Dome of the Rock (Ṣakhrah) and finally the inscriptions of the Aqṣā mosque. I followed a different method. Since the inscriptions in the whole CIAP are ar- ranged according to chronological order, the inscriptions of Jerusalem are also ar- ranged chronologically. A special index is attached that indicates the site of each inscription. I made a point to refer to the work of van Bercham, and particularly to his rich scholarly apparatus, which enabled me to limit my notes to the main refer- ences, so that the reader is always exposed to his work. Unlike other sites, Jerusalem has been the object of endless studies which have covered every possible aspect of the holy city. I therefore did not engage myself with writing a long dissertation on it, and preferred to deal with the issues emerging from the particular study of each inscription which put the reader into the historical con- text of each individual inscription. Following the method used in this Corpus (and van Berchem’s), the inscriptions are always studied against their historical, cultural, linguistic and theological context. The sum total of these studies adds up to a clearer Moshe Sharon - 9789004440562 Downloaded from Brill.com09/24/2021 11:28:57AM via free access x Foreword understanding of Jerusalem under the Muslims. Like in most of the previous vol- umes, this volume also begins with a section of Addenda to volumes 2, 3, 5, and 6 followed by the main Corpus. This is an opportunity to thank Dr. Necati Alkan for his contribution to the Turkish material in the Addenda. His work is acknowledged in situ. For many years now, my long-time student and colleague Dr. Ami M. Schrager has always been a great help to me, and many times has contributed his keen eye and excellent familiarity with the computer to solve reading and bibliographical problems, concurrently proving him- self a professional epigrapher with independent research qualities. Thanks are due to my colleagues who are always ready to answer questions relating to their fields of expertise: Reuven Amitai, Albert Arazi, Joshua Blau, Amikam Elad, Isaac Hasson, Yohanan Friedman, Benjamin Z. Kedar and the late Bernard Lewis, my teacher and longtime friend, who passed away during the preparation of this volume. Much help was extended by Ms. Sylvia Krapiwko, the custodian of the archives of the IAA, who did not spare time or effort when asked to provide visual material for the Corpus. I could not carry out the work on the CIAP without the financial support of the Fondation Max van Berchem in Geneva and without the availability of the van Berchem archives and the friendly attitude and encouragement of Professor Charles Genequand and Mrs. Antoinette Harri who has always been available to contribute her professional support which makes my work in the van Berchem archives for more than 20 years fruitful and enjoyable. I must emphasize that I was particularly encouraged when the Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, acknowl- edged my work and awarded me a prize for volume 6 of the Corpus. The constant encouragement of E.J. Brill, my faithful publishers that always drive me to supply them with yet another new volume of the Corpus, is always a source of pride. Their professional production of the CIAP is a masterpiece. I cannot but recall with great sadness that this volume of the Corpus