Blurb:

Chapter 3 concentrates on Mu‘āwiya’s establishing Jerusalem as a royal Umayyad center after its surrender in April 637. As governor after 638, he actively rebuilt the walls of the older destroyed Herodian sanctuary establishing the perimeter of the new Umayyad precinct over the older sanctuary and rebuilt old gates and created new ones. He first cleared by 638 the southeastern corner of debris for the construction of his new mosque and by 660 had cleared the central part of the sanctuary for construction of the Dome of the Chain–his royal audience pavilion–and the Dome of the Rock.