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Recognizing Zion in Islamic Context?

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in response to reader comment: Our dear Salem صلى الله عليه وسلم and more evidence that Allah is a Zionist! He sends only Jewish prophets and he calls himself اللهم or Elohim!

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jan 22, 2021 at 20:04

DNM:

If, as you have alluded to, there is a recognition of Zion in the Islamic Quranic conscience, where in the history of the subsequent attempts to subdue Zion to the Muslim consciousness commence, if not in the Arabic Sunni mindset, then the Persian Shia consciousness? And if so, as it was asked elsewhere, does this form the basis of the expectation of the arrival of al-Mahdi in Zion?

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