Editing Western Wall (section)

====Ottoman-period identification====
To the previously mentioned variations in identification adds yet another gate, the now walled-up Funeral Gate (''bab al-jana'iz''), [[Bab al-Rahma Cemetery|just south]] of the [[Golden Gate (Jerusalem)|Golden Gate]], also known as 'Gate of al-Buraq' and marked as such on a 1864 Temple Mount map by [[Melchior de Vogüé]], based on the 1833 survey by [[Frederick Catherwood]]<ref name=Matthews/><ref name="Necipoğlu">{{cite journal |last= Necipoğlu |first= Gülru |author-link= Gülru Necipoğlu |title=The Dome of the Rock as a palimpsest: 'Abd al-Malik's grand narrative and Sultan Süleyman's glosses |date= 2008 |journal= Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic |publisher= Brill |location= Leiden |volume= 25 |pages= 20–21 |isbn= 978-9004173279 |url= http://archnet.org/system/publications/contents/6779/original/DPC3643.pdf?1384802697 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150927135125/http://archnet.org/system/publications/contents/6779/original/DPC3643.pdf?1384802697 |archive-date= 27 September 2015 |access-date= 13 December 2022}}</ref> (see [https://madainproject.com/bab_al_rahmah_cemetery_(jerusalem) Bab al-Rahmah Cemetery] at MadainProject.com for a photo and short description).

When a British Jew asked the Egyptian authorities in 1840 for permission to re-pave the ground in front of the Western Wall, the governor of Syria wrote:
:It is evident from the copy of the record of the deliberations of the Consultative Council in Jerusalem that the place the Jews asked for permission to pave adjoins the wall of the Haram al-Sharif and also the spot where al-Buraq was tethered, and is included in the endowment charter of [[Abu Madyan]], may God bless his memory; that the Jews never carried out any repairs in that place in the past. ... Therefore the Jews must not be enabled to pave the place.<ref>{{cite book |author= F. E. Peters |title= Jerusalem |publisher= Princeton University Press |place= Princeton |year= 1985 |pages=541–542}} Arabic text in {{cite book |author= A. L. Tibawi |title= The Islamic Pious Foundations in Jerusalem |publisher= The Islamic Cultural Centre |place= London |at= Appendix III |year= 1978}}</ref>

[[Carl Sandreczki]], who was charged with compiling a list of place names for [[Charles William Wilson|Charles Wilson's]] [[Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem]] in 1865, reported that the street leading to the Western Wall, including the part alongside the wall, belonged to the ''[[Hosh (architecture)|Hosh]]'' (court/enclosure) of ''al Burâk'', "not ''Obrâk'', nor ''Obrat''".<ref name=Sandrecki>{{cite book |author= Carl Sandrecki |year= 1865 |title= Account of a Survey of the City of Jerusalem made in order to ascertain the names of streets etc.|at=Day IV}} reproduced in {{cite book |author= Captain Charles W. Wilson R.E. |edition= Facsimile |year= 1865 |publication-date= 1980 |publisher=Ariel Publishing House |title= Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem |at= Appendix}}</ref> In 1866, the Prussian Consul and [[Oriental studies|Orientalist]] [[Georg Rosen (1821–1891)|Georg Rosen]] wrote that "The Arabs call Obrâk the entire length of the wall at the wailing place of the Jews, southwards down to the house of Abu Su'ud and northwards up to the substructure of the Mechkemeh [Shariah court]. Obrâk is not, as was formerly claimed, a corruption of the word Ibri (Hebrews), but simply the neo-Arabic pronunciation of Bōrâk, ... which, whilst (Muhammad) was at prayer at the holy rock, is said to have been tethered by him inside the wall location mentioned above."<ref name=Rosen>{{cite book |author= G. Rosen |title= Das Haram von Jerusalem und der Tempelplatz des Moria |publisher= Gotha |year= 1866 |pages=9–10 |quote= Die ganze Mauerstrecke am Klageplatz der Juden bis südlich an die Wohnung des Abu Su'ud und nördlich an die Substructionen der Mechkemeh wird von den Arabern Obrâk genannt, nicht, wie früher behauptet worden, eine Corruption des Wortes Ibri (Hebräer), sondern einfach die neu-arabische Aussprache von Bōrâk, [dem Namen des geflügelten Wunderrosses,] welches [den Muhammed vor seiner Auffahrt durch die sieben Himmel nach Jerusalem trug] und von ihm während seines Gebetes am heiligen Felsen im Innern der angegebenen Mauerstelle angebunden worden sein soll.}}</ref>

The name Hosh al Buraq appeared on the maps of Wilson's 1865 survey, its revised editions of 1876 and 1900, and other maps in the early 20th century.<ref>{{cite book |author= Captain Charles W. Wilson R.E. |edition= Facsimile |year= 1865 |publication-date= 1980 |publisher=Ariel Publishing House |title= Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem |at= maps}}; [https://www.nli.org.il/en/maps/NNL_MAPS_JER002368216/NLI Wilson 1876]; [https://www.nli.org.il/en/maps/NNL_ALEPH002366990/NLI Wilson 1900]; [https://www.nli.org.il/en/maps/NNL_ALEPH002368106/NLI August Kümmel 1904] ; [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_middle_east.html Karl Baedeker 1912]; [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_middle_east.html George Adam Smith 1915]</ref>