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Shahada (Declaration of Faith)
The shahada is the Islamic profession of faith. Variants of it appear on some of the earliest surviving Islamic material culture, including the Dome of the Rock inscriptions and Abd al-Malik's post-reform coinage (from 77 AH / 696–697 CE), making it one of the earliest attested elements of explicit Islamic religious identity in the epigraphic record.
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The Dome of the Rock Inscriptions and Early Islamic Identity
What the 72 AH Dome of the Rock inscriptions can and cannot tell historians about the state of the Qur'anic text and Islamic religious identity at the end of the first Islamic century.
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The Dome of the Rock Inscriptions (72 AH / 691–692 CE)
A monumental Kufic inscription band, roughly 240 meters long, running around the interior and exterior arcades of the Dome of the Rock: the earliest securely dated substantial body of Qur'anic-related text.