Just as Mohammad was both the secular and religious leader of the Ummah, so too was his successor or Caliph. This joining of both religious and secular authority is present in one of the earliest uses of Qu 'ranic text as propaganda. All religions proselytize, and in religions which have a central text the easiest way to proselytize is to expose an outsider to one 's central text. it may seem irrelevant to discuss a particular instance of someone using Qu 'ranic text as propaganda because one could argue that all Qu 'ranic text is a form of propaganda. The inscriptions on the inside of the Dome of the Rock are Qu 'ranic texts which are mostly related certain tenets of Christianity. The decision by Abd al- Malik to first of all build a monument in Jerusalem,a city that holds tremendous significance to all Abrahamic religions, on the Temple Mount, the site of the Jewish temple, makes a particulary strong statement. This is the type of instance that demonstrates the conversation taking place between the past and present in the Islamic world. Just as Mohammad was the Seal of the Prophets so too was the Dome of the Rock the seal upon the significance of the Temple Mount. The decision to have Qu 'ranic inscriptions that acknowledge Christ as an important figure while also rejecting aspects of christian dogma that don 't agree with Islamic theology as part of the ornamentation of the Dome of the Rock shows Abd al-Malik 's intent to engage with the past while also acknowledging the supremacy of
Just as Mohammad was both the secular and religious leader of the Ummah, so too was his successor or Caliph. This joining of both religious and secular authority is present in one of the earliest uses of Qu 'ranic text as propaganda. All religions proselytize, and in religions which have a central text the easiest way to proselytize is to expose an outsider to one 's central text. it may seem irrelevant to discuss a particular instance of someone using Qu 'ranic text as propaganda because one could argue that all Qu 'ranic text is a form of propaganda. The inscriptions on the inside of the Dome of the Rock are Qu 'ranic texts which are mostly related certain tenets of Christianity. The decision by Abd al- Malik to first of all build a monument in Jerusalem,a city that holds tremendous significance to all Abrahamic religions, on the Temple Mount, the site of the Jewish temple, makes a particulary strong statement. This is the type of instance that demonstrates the conversation taking place between the past and present in the Islamic world. Just as Mohammad was the Seal of the Prophets so too was the Dome of the Rock the seal upon the significance of the Temple Mount. The decision to have Qu 'ranic inscriptions that acknowledge Christ as an important figure while also rejecting aspects of christian dogma that don 't agree with Islamic theology as part of the ornamentation of the Dome of the Rock shows Abd al-Malik 's intent to engage with the past while also acknowledging the supremacy of