(a part-for-the-whole synecdoche).

In early Islam, the Temple Mount area was known as Bayt al-Maqdis, corresponding to the Hebrew Beit ha-Miqdash ("The Holy Temple"), and the term later came to refer to Jerusalem as a whole. During the period of Mamluk (1250-1517) and Ottoman rule (1517-1917), the wider compound began to also be popularly known as the Haram al-Sharif, or al-Haram