See the monograph by Sunthar Visuvalingam (with Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam), Between Mecca and Benares: The Marriage of L�t-Bhair� and Gh�z� Miy�, especially the concluding section on "The Felling of the World-Pillar: An Islamic Fulfillment of Vedic Cosmogony?". While destroying the Temple of Jerusalem, Titus would have possessed two prostitutes on the Holy of the Holies and blasphemed against the Name of God. Such midrashic elaborations would seem to suggest a similar reinscription of the Roman sacrilege within a preexisting ideology of transgressive sacrality within the Jewish tradition itself