. >> host: simon sebag montefiore, what is the islamic hold on jerusalem? >> guest: that is a very important story, too. reciting the corona. he adopted, respected, commandeered, borrowed much of the holiness of the jewish and christian profits and included them. he believed that islam was the real and final revelation. these were early. the jewish and christian were early revelations that have lost cause a blessing. and therefore jerusalem, though never mentioned perce in the carotid is most probably referred to like a faraway shrine. and win the -- when he talked about jerusalem, when the early muslims talk about jerusalem, their belief was the final day, a judgment day was imminent and that that could only take place in jerusalem. therefore it want to conquer jerusalem especially. when they did stalker they immediately went to the temple mount with a temple had stood and watched to create that because it had been the jewish temple. therefore when there were building the empire they builds the rock there in 691. and that after the temple was the islamic t