Muslims didn’t originally call Jerusalem “Al-Quds.”
For centuries they called it Bayt al-Maqdis (بيت المقدس) — a direct Arabic translation of the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash (“House of the Sanctuary / Jewish Temple”).
The 10th-century Muslim geographer al-Maqdisi (literally “the one… pic.twitter.com/c8x3t2OEYg