At the epicenter of Abrahamic faiths

City of God - The Brooklyn Rail: " Two important narratives emerge in Montefiore’s telling. First is Europe’s overwhelming (and forced) conversion to Christianity. The codification of Christian doctrine following the Council of Nicaea in 325 galvanized Christian identity in Europe, opening Jerusalem to the interest and imagination of the West. Thus burgeoned the long-standing relationship between Jerusalem and Europe. The second major development, of course, is the advent of Islam, under whose banner many Arab factions unified. For the 400 years subsequent to Muhammad’s prophecy, Islamic rulers, Arab and non-Arab alike, governed Jerusalem. Islamic culture flourished in this period and many of its wealthy princes devoted immense resources, both material and imaginative, to pursuing science, geography, mathematics, and, more broadly, the question of wisdom. "

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