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• Abd al-Fattah El-Awaisi (1998), "The significance of Jerusalem in Islam: an Islamic reference", Journal of Islamic Jerusalem Studies, vol. l; no. 2 (Summer 1998), p. 49.
• Othman Ismael Al-Tel (2003), The first Islamic conquest of Aelia (Islamic Jerusalem): A critical analytical study of the early Islamic historical narrations and sources {Al-Maktoum Institute Academic Press, Scotland), p. 29 1 .
• Ibid
• This background of the new field of inquiry ofislamicjerusalem Studies was based on Aisha al-Ahlas (2004), Islamic Research Academy: 1994- 2004, background, activities and achievements, with special reference to the new field of inquiry of Islamic Jerusalem Studies (ISRA, Scotland).