Al-Juʽranah

Al-Juʽranah (Arabic: الجعرانة) is a village in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia.[1] It is located 18 miles northeast of Mecca.

Al-Juʽranah
Village
Al-Juʽranah
Location in Saudi Arabia
Coordinates: 21°34′N 39°57′E
Country Saudi Arabia
ProvinceMakkah Province
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EAT)

History

Al-Ju'ranah was mentioned by the 8th-century Arab historian Al-Waqidi. In his Kitab al-Tarikh wa al-Maghazi (Arabic: كتاب التاريخ والمغازي, "Book of History and Campaigns") Al-Waqidi describes two ancient sanctuaries in Al-Ju'ranah visited by Muhammad: masjid al-aqṣā ("the farthest mosque") and masjid al-adnā ("the closest mosque").[2]

Quranic al-Aqsa Mosque: Ju'ranah theory

Based on al-Waqidi's writings, some scholars, including Youssef Ziedan, Mordechai Kedar, Yitzhak Reiter and Suleiman al-Tarawneh, have claimed that Al-Ju'ranah, and not the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, was the location of the Al-Aqsa Mosque described in the Qur'an as the destination of Muhammad's night journey.[3][4] According to these scholars, the night journey was later linked to Jerusalem by the Umayyads for political purposes. In November 2020, Saudi lawyer Osama Yamani promoted this theory in an opinion article in the Saudi newspaper Okaz.[5][6] The article sparked outrage from Muslims around the world, with some writers claiming it was fabricated to justify the decision of some Gulf countries to normalize ties with Israel.[7]

Al-Juʽranah Mosque

See also

References
  1. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. GeoNames database entry. (search Archived 2017-03-18 at the Wayback Machine) Accessed 12 May 2011.
  2. Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, or 748-823 (2011). The life of Muḥammad : al-Wāqidī's Kitāb al-maghāzī. Rizwi Faizer, Amal Ismail, Abdulkader Tayob, Andrew Rippin. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 469. ISBN 978-0-415-57434-1. OCLC 539086931. When he desired to turn back to Medina, he set out from al-Jirrana on Wednesday night, twelve nights remaining in Dhul-Qada. He donned his ihram at the furthest mosque (al-masjid al-Aqsa), which was below the wadi on a remote slope. It was the place of prayer of the Messenger of God when he was in al-Jiranna. As for the closest mosque, a man from the Quraysh built it and he marked that place with it.
  3. "Temple Mount in Jewish hands? The Egyptian intellectual who handed over al-Aksa". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  4. Shragai, Nadav. "From Mecca to Jerusalem". www.israelhayom.com. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  5. "أين يقع المسجد الأقصى ؟ - أخبار السعودية | صحيفة عكاظ".
  6. Kasraoui, Safaa. "Saudi Lawyer Claims Al Aqsa Mosque Is In Saudi Arabia, Not Jerusalem". Morocco World News. Archived from the original on 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  7. "Saudi Lawyer Claims Al Aqsa Mosque Is In Saudi Arabia, Not Jerusalem".


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