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the name ranks her after Mecca and Medina
the first is Mecca, not Jerusalem
three sanctuaries, not four
the name gives her the third sanctuary
the sources have prayer to her first
al-Aqsa was first, then the Kaaba
Medina was never the qibla
the qibla was to Jerusalem first
the sources date their seizure to that year
that is her recovery year, not seizure
that is the Islamic conquest, not Crusader
the sources have the Crusaders seize her
the sources record their use of the mosque
they made her palace and stable, not museum
she stayed standing under different use
they did not make her a school
the sources record his restoration after Hattin
the Ottomans came three centuries later
the Fatimids ended before her recovery
she returned a mosque after 1187
the sources place her Umayyad start
she began three centuries before the tenth
that is her restoration era, not start
the sources give her Umayyad start
the sources record her rebuildings after disasters
the Ottomans came centuries after the earthquakes
the British did not build her
she stayed standing through rebuildings
the sources join her standing and memory
her importance is religious, not size
she is in Jerusalem, not Mecca
the third sanctuary in the sources
her rebuildings gathered their eras'' styles
she was built Islamically, not Roman
she was built centuries before modernity
she carries six centuries'' styles
her accounts reach us from Islamic and European sources
history books and inscriptions document her
Muslims and Europeans wrote of her
she was written of centuries before the Ottomans
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