That was taken as an obvious historical truth. For example, in 1925 the Supreme Muslim Council published a guidebook to the Haram al-Sharif. On page 4 it said:
“The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.”
That was the mainstream Muslim position for centuries. The Temple Mount was recognized as the location of the ancient Jewish Temple.
There was no denial, no attempt to erase Jewish history, because Jews were under Islamic domination, without sovereignty, and therefore posed no political threat.
But everything changed with the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate and the introduction of nation-states under the British and the French.
Once the idea of Jewish sovereignty became possible, Jews ruling themselves on their ancestral land, the Muslim world could no longer tolerate the acknowledgment of Jewish history.
This is why the modern denial of Jewish history began, why the Palestinian identity was manufactured and why Muslims suddenly began denying the Jewish connection to the land.
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