The Strategic Importance of Al-Isra and Al-Miraj
On the night journey and ascension, and what the author reads in their timing and destination.
Al-Isra and Al-Miraj, the night journey from Makkah to Jerusalem and the ascension through the heavens, are recounted in the Qur’an in a few verses. Hosein argues that the choice of Jerusalem as the waypoint is not incidental but strategic, binding the three sacred cities together and establishing a claim that bears directly on the modern conflict over the city.
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