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Absolutely; but you will not find it mentioned by name. This is standard for the Koran. For example, Muhammad is mentioned in the Koran only one time by name, only once and yet there are many references to Muhammad in the Koran without mentioning his name. The same is true for Jerusalem whereby the stories of Solomon in the Koran (Solomon is mentioned in the Koran over 20 times) mention the building of the temple; the stories of Moses and the Exodus (Moses is mentioned over 160 times) refer to finding the holy land; the Kingdom of David (David is mentioned 17 times); the mount of olives (in east Jerusalem) is sworn by in the quran; Also the farthest house of worship (the temple in Jerusalem) is mentioned several times, in one instance to explain why Muslims should no longer face towards Jerusalem in Prayer.
The most mentioned (explicitly) place name in the Koran is "Egypt" (mentioned by name four times; more than Mecca which is mentioned by name only once), but this does not mean Egypt is holy in Islam or diminishes Mecca and Jerusalem's place in Islam one iota.

The word Quds to describe Jerusalem is not found in the Qur'an.

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The city of Jerusalem is never mentioned by name. It is not called Ursalim (which is the Coptic Arabic word for Jerusalem and presumably the word that would be used at that time) nor is it called Al-Qods (which is the current Arabic name for Jerusalem). The Qur'an refers to a location called Al-Aqsa (which means "the most distant") and may or may not have been a reference to Jerusalem.Answer 1 makes the assumption that the common interpretation of today is necessarily what Mohammed intended in terms of his discussion of allusions to Jerusalem. Since, other than his supposed flight astride a buraq (very similar to a Pegasus), Mohammed never left what is today Saudi Arabia, Al-Aqsa could very well have referred to a distant place in Arabia. It is not clear from the Qur'an alone that Jerusalem is being referred to. It is only from Muslim tradition (the Sunna and the Fiqh) that Al-Aqsa refers to Jerusalem.

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Yes. Jerusalem is a holy city of Islam for having the Al-Aqsa Mosque that is considered the third holy mosque in Islam history. In addition, Prophet Muhammad ascended to the Heavens from the foundation stone during the miracle of the Mira'aj. The Dome of the Rock Shrine marks this historic moment.

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