The al-Burāq wall tradition in Jerusalem

Record summary

The wall known in Islamic tradition as al-Buraq is connected with the tethering of Muhammad’s mount during the Night Journey. British Mandate-era surveys, travel writing and religious histories documented competing names and interpretations of the site. This is a useful lead for studying how a named aerial creature becomes embedded in place-memory, architecture and political identity rather than appearing as an animal report. The creature itself belongs to Islamic sacred tradition; the historically verifiable questions concern pilgrimage, nomenclature, custodianship and changing interpretation of the wall.