Ibrahim
Ibn Muhammad Istakhri's Map of Syria
(952)
The 10th and 11th
centuries were the era of the "Atlas
of Islam" - collections of maps
which usually included representations
of 17 Islamic
countries. The Arabs never regarded
the Land of Israel, which they called
Falastin, as a distinct geographical
or political unit, and mapped it as
an integral part of ash-Sham, Syria,
as in the example shown here. Jerusalem is represented by one of the circles
in the upper part of the map (which
is directed toward the south-west and
is named Bayt al-Maqdas (Hebrew: Bet
haMiqdash, the Temple).
Sources: Israeli
Foreign Ministry
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