The Rock: A Tale of Seventeenth-century Jerusalem - Hardcover

It is in no one's interest to forget that the Dome of the Rock is a Muslim monument built by Christian craftsmen to celebrate a Jewish holy sites. Kanan Makiya in London Review of Books

Part history, part novel, Makiya's The Rock describes how Jews, Christians and Muslims built and maintained the dome of the rock and once-existed peacefully.

In the beginning there was a Rock deemed the point of creation of the cosmos and the place of assembly on the Day of Judgement. Then there was a Dome built over this Rock - the Dome of the Rock. No site in the world has been held as sacred, or has been as fought over as the Rock. But whose rock is enshrined inside the golden Dome of Jerusalem? The Rock of Moses or of Muhammad?

This is where the story starts, and where it will probably end. To understand why men still kill in the name of God, you come here. Ben Macintyre talking about the Dome of the Rock, The Times