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The three fragments of the Black Stone were bound in a silver frame, and placed by Ibn al-Zubayr inside the new Kaaba. After the Umayyad reconquest of the city, the hatīm was separated again from the main building, and the western gate was walled up, reverting to the general outlines of the pre-Islamic plan. This is the form in which the Kaaba ...
The Kaaba, [b] sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, [d] is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is considered by Muslims to be the Baytullah (Arabic: بَيْت ٱللَّٰه , lit.
The Black Stone was held in reverence well before Islam. It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabataeans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage. The Kaaba held 360 idols of the Meccan gods.
951: The Qarmatians restore the Black Stone to the Kaaba. 954: Death of the Samanid ruler Nuh I, accession of 'Abd al-Malik I. 961: Death of the Samanid ruler 'Abd al-Malik I, accession of Mansur I. 961: Turkic mameluk Alptigin founds the rule of the Ghazanavids. 961: Death of the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Rahman III in Spain; accession of al-Hakam II.
Capital Cities of Arab Islam. University of Minnesota Press. p. 3+. ISBN 978-0-8166-0663-4. Francis Edward Peters (1986). Jerusalem and Mecca: The Typology of the Holy City in the Near East. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-6598-2. Patricia Crone (1987). Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Princeton University Press. Francis Edward ...
Bani Shaiba gatekeeper, c.1880 Key to the Ka'ba at the time of Sultan Barquq of Egypt. The Bani Shaiba (Arabic: بني شيبه, lit. ' the sons of Shaiba ') are an Arab clan belonging to the Banu Abd al-Dar sub-clan, that are part of the larger erstwhile Quraysh tribal confederation in the Hejaz region of modern Saudi Arabia.
A camel caravan traveling to Mecca for the annual pilgrimage, c. 1910. The pilgrimage to Mecca is attested in some pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.Compared to Islamic-era poetry where the Hajj appears ubiquitously, only a small number of references are found to it in pre-Islamic poetry, indicating that its Arabian centrality was a development of Islamic times. [5]
570: Year of the Elephant. 50–60 days before Muhammad's birth, Abraha, the Viceroy of Yemen, reaches Mecca with his army of elephants to demolish the Kaaba. 570: Birth of Muhammad. 573: Birth of Abu Bakr, the senior companion of Muhammad and his father-in-law. 576: Death of Aminah bint Wahb, the mother of Muhammad (approximate date).