Blurb:

Chapter 8 concentrates on the initial construction of the foundations of the Umayyad administrative district immediately south of the sanctuary and west of Mu‘āwiya’s initial modest palace directly south of his mosque. All construction above the foundations dates from later Umayyad rulers but proves that Mu‘āwiya intended Jerusalem as the capital of the early Umayyad Empire and was keen to create the monuments of an administrative capital.