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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: 710, 710s architecture, 710s births, 710s deaths, 710s establishments, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718, 719, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Umayyad Mosque, Liu Yan, Wittiza, Li Jiao, Ealdwulf of East Anglia, Siege of Constantinople, Qasr Amra, White Mosque, Heij Palace, Nothhelm of Sussex, Stephen the Younger, Great Mosque of Aleppo, List of state leaders in 719, List of state leaders in 715, List of state leaders in 718, List of state leaders in 716, List of state leaders in 710, List of state leaders in 717, List of state leaders in 711, List of state leaders in 712, List of state leaders in 714, List of state leaders in 713, Winnoc, Nonnberg Abbey, Battle of Cologne, Battle of Ambleve, Obama Onsen, Chlothar IV, Battle of Soissons, Cuthburh, Hoshi Ryokan, Theodbert of Bavaria, Battle of Vincy, Battle of Compiegne, Theobald of Bavaria, Umar Ibn Abi Rabi'ah, Silvin of Auchy. Excerpt: Al-Aqsa Mosque (Arabic: al-Masjid al-Aqsa, IPA: , "the Farthest Mosque,") also known as al-Aqsa, is the third holiest site in Islam and is located in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site which includes the mosque (along with the Dome of the Rock), also referred to as al-Haram ash-Sharif or "Noble Sanctuary," is the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, the place where the Temple is generally accepted to have stood. Muslims believe that Muhammad was transported from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca to al-Aqsa during the Night Journey. Islamic tradition holds that Muhammad led prayers towards this site until the seventeenth month after the emigration, when God directed him to turn towards the Ka'aba. The al-Aqsa Mosque was originally a small prayer house built by the Rashidun caliph Umar, but was rebuilt and expanded by the Ummayad caliph Abd al-Malik and finished by his son al-Walid in 705 CE. After an earthquake in 746, the mosque w...