Blessed from the heavens and honored by the presence of so many men loved by the One, al-Quds is fundamental in the history, geography and dogma of Islam, inseparable from the soul of the Ummah and Muslim identity, inscribed in letters of gold in the hearts and minds of believers. And what about the sacredness, virtues and merits of its sublime esplanade of al-Aqsa, the first qibla of Muslims, the second house of Allah on Earth, the third holy mosque to which the believer is invited to travel?

Land of the Prophets, the pious, the truthful and the martyrs, a place of pilgrimage, worship and proximity to the Divine for all peoples, this sacred metropolis of humanity has almost always occupied a prominent place on the world stage, so much so that its religious and geopolitical importance has made it the ambition of the greatest kings and conquerors of all eras. Subject to all the vicissitudes of time, its history is also inseparable, since time immemorial, from a supreme ideal built on a double foundation that is both spiritual – absolute monotheism – and earthly – justice. These are the fundamental values ​​of piety and righteousness that were personified and materialized by the greatest sovereigns that al-Quds has known, and which made it, during its golden ages, one of the beacons of the most beautiful virtues, from the era of the prophet-kings of the children of Israel to that of the rightly guided caliphs, and beyond.

It is therefore an epic of four thousand years of History that this little novel of al-Quds proposes to narrate: from the family of Ibrâhîm to the present day, an extraordinary gallery where, at the bend in the alleys of Jerusalem, Dâwud and Suleymân, Babylon and the Pharaohs, 'Issâ and Rome, 'Umar ibn al-Khattâb and Byzantium, Salâh ad-Dîn and the crusaders, Ottomans and Mamluks, and many others will cross paths…