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The Gate of Mecca, Mecca Gate or Makkah Gate (Arabic: بوابة مكة Bawwābāt Makka), also known as Qur'an Gate (Arabic: بوابة القرآن Bawwābāt al-Qurʾān), is an arch gateway monumental on the Makkah al-Mukkarramah road of the Jeddah–Makkah Highway.
This phrase in Arabic when literally translated into English means "Gate of Peace". It has been a tradition for first time visitors to the mosque to enter the Great Mosque of Mecca through this gate. [2] This gate is located in the stretch between the Mount Safa and Marwa, closer to Mount Marwa. Also called the door of the sons of Sheybah in ...
In Samaritan literature, the Samaritan Book of the Secrets of Moses states that Ismail and his eldest son Nebaioth built the Kaaba as well as the city of Mecca." [36] The Asatir book was likely compiled in the 10th century CE, [37] though Moses Gaster suggested in 1927 that it was written no later than the second half of the 3rd century BCE. [38]
The Mecca Gate, known popularly as the Quran Gate, sits on the western entrance of the city, which is the route from Jeddah. Located on Highway 40, it marks the boundary of the Haram area where non-Muslims are prohibited from entering. The gate was designed in 1979 by an Egyptian architect, Samir Elabd, for the architectural firm IDEA Center.
The Makkah Al Mukarramah Library (Arabic: مَكْتَبَة مَكَّة ٱلْمُكَرَّمَة , romanized: Maktabah Makkah Al-Mukarramah) [3] [4] is a library near the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The Volume Library by Southwestern, 3-volume compendium with aspects of dictionary, almanac and encyclopedia; English Wikipedia (2001) Simple English Wikipedia (2003) World Book Encyclopedia: world's best selling print encyclopedia
The book takes its title from the holy city of Mecca, to which Ibn Arabi travelled on pilgrimage in 1202, and in which he received a number of revelations of divine origin. In the Illuminations Ibn Arabi develops a theory of the imagination and the imaginary world explained by Henry Corbin . [ 5 ]
The two sites whose Islamic sanctity are unchallengeably the highest of all are Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca (which is called Ḥaraman Āminan (حَرَمًا آمِنًا, "Sanctuary (which is) Secure") in the Quran (28:57; [5] 29:67 [6]), and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, so the Arabic dual form al-ḥaramān (ٱلْحَرَمَان) or al ...