Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Qibla al-Qudsiyya


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  22:27, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Qibla al-Qudsiyya

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This article, created in 2002, appears never to have cited any sources. I am unable to find any references to the subject on search engines except for apparent Wikipedia mirrors. Further, this article on the Dutch Wikipedia suggests that this novel describes the article as a hoax. Bit of a weird one. The Land (talk) 19:34, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: There was a previous VfD in 2004, archived onto the talk page. (Ah, Votes for Deletion, those were the days...) The Land (talk) 19:38, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:50, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * It may be a hoax and Richard Osinga would make sense as a Wikipedia hoaxer because he ran an early wiki called World66. I did find a 1971 French book, Deux commentaires karaïtes sur l'Ecclésiaste, which says "al-iqrār bil-qibla al-qudsiyya; l'expression est prégnante, car elle réfère à la fois à la situation biblique (et eschatologique) de la concentration du culte sacrificiel et un seul lieu et la situation exilique dans laquelle la priere et oriente vers Jerusalem" or "al-iqrār bil-qibla al-qudsiyya; the expression is significant, because it refers to both the biblical (and eschatological) situation of the concentration of sacrificial worship and a single place and the exile situation in which it is prayed and directed towards Jerusalem." (Google translation). So the phrase does refer to praying towards Jerusalem in Arabic. Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:31, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I forgot to say: Delete. Fences  &amp;  Windows  07:54, 1 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Not sure if this is a hoax or just a highly garbled misreading of the well documented change in the qiblah in early Islam or the relations between Jews and Muslims. This is the first AfD article I’ve seen which is ‘not even wrong.’ There’s just nothing to save here. Mccapra (talk) 10:40, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is either a hoax or incompetent editing remaining frpm the very early days of the encyclopedia. It fails verifiability and is of no use to readers. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  06:38, 1 February 2020 (UTC)


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