The Kaaba, sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid...
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these Kaaba structures that are mentioned in the writings of Muslim scholars and historians. Kaaba of Dushara, worshipped by the Nabataeans Kaaba of Dhu-Ghabat...
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Black Stone (category Kaaba)
romanized: al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi...
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Custodianship of the Kaaba in Mecca is a role that concerns the affairs and caretaking of the Kaaba, including renovating it, replacing the kiswah and...
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Adil Kaaba (born 19 May 1971) is a Moroccan judoka. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild;...
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Masjid al-Haram (redirect from Kaaba mosque)
be the most significant mosque in Islam. It encloses the vicinity of the Kaaba in Mecca, in the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia. It is among the pilgrimage...
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Qibla (category Kaaba)
qibla (Arabic: قِبْلَة, lit. 'direction') is the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, which is used by Muslims in various religious...
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Kiswah (category Kaaba)
kiswa (Arabic: كسوة الكعبة, kiswat al-ka'bah) is the cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is draped annually, though the date of draping...
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absence from home. In Islamic terminology, Hajj is a pilgrimage made to the Kaaba, the "House of Allah," in the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is...
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قُرَيْشٌ) is an Arab tribe that inhabited and used to controlled Mecca and its Kaaba. Comprising 10 main clans, it included the Hashim clan, into which the Islamic...
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goddesses al-Lāt, al-‘Uzzā, and Manāt, at local shrines and temples such as the Kaaba in Mecca. Deities were venerated and invoked through a variety of rituals...
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Hubal (section Hubal in Kaaba)
was a god worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia, notably by the Quraysh at the Kaaba in Mecca. The god's idol was a human figure believed to control acts of...
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Bani Shaiba (category Kaaba)
historically undertaken the role of the Custodian of the Kaaba and hence have held the keys to the Kaaba since the pre-Islamic period and subsequently in the...
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Hijr Ismail (category Kaaba)
wall originally part of the Kaaba. It is a semi-circular wall opposite, but not connected to, the north-west wall of the Kaaba known as the hatīm. This is...
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Siege of Mecca (683) (section Rebuilding of the Kaaba)
took the city, but Mecca held out in a month-long siege, during which the Kaaba was damaged by fire. The siege ended when news came of Yazid's sudden death...
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Muslims circumambulating the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the most sacred site in Islam...
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The Kaaba Youth Movement (Indonesian: Gerakan Pemuda Ka'bah), abbreviated as GPK, is the youth wing of United Development Party (PPP). The movement is...
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him. In Islam, he is associated with Mecca and the construction of the Kaaba within today's Masjid al-Haram, which is the holiest Islamic site. Muslims...
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foundation of the Kaaba. Islamic traditions hold that the Kaaba was first built by Adam and that Abraham and Ishmael rebuilt the Kaaba on the old foundations...
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public realm. Blackballing, a vote of rejection in a secret ballot The Kaaba, a black cubical building at the center of the Grand Mosque of Mecca; it...
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members of the Banu Khuza'ah sought refuge in the Holy Sanctuary - the Kaaba. However, they were not spared and Nawfal, the leader of the Banu Bakr,...
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6th century. He is famous for the tradition of his attempt to destroy the Kaaba, a revered religious site in Mecca, using an army that included war elephants...
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geometry of Kaaba in a purely abstract manner. Imagine the apex of each of the four minarets as a scaled explosion of four highest corners of Kaaba – thus...
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Supplicating pilgrim at Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām (The Sacred Mosque) in Mecca. The Kaaba (the holiest site of Islam) is the cubic building in front of the pilgrim...
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Holiest sites in Islam (section Kaaba)
descending order: Mecca, and Medina. Mecca's Al-Masjid al-Haram (including the Kaaba), Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina are all revered by Muslims as sites of great...
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Fahd of Saudi Arabia: entering the Kaaba for an hour. This was the first time that an Iranian qari had entered the Kaaba.[citation needed] Hamed Shakernejad...
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of low bowing or prostration to God facing the qiblah (direction of the Kaaba at Mecca). It is usually done in standardized prayers (salah). The position...
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in defence of the Kaaba. A man from the Ḥimyar tribe was sent by Abrahah to advise them that he only wished to demolish the Kaaba and if they resisted...
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