Mecca
https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2906
A city located in the Ḥijāz
about 72 km from Jedda.
Place Type
settlement
Location
Descriptions
“فان قلنا جيد فقد يكون اجود منه ....... ..... الطائفى ونيل
اريحا خير منه الزبيدى وخوخ مكة اسرى منه الدارقى” 5
A city in Arabia, regarded by Muslims as the
holiest city.
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"Mecca" in WikipediaWorks Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 86, 220.
- 2 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29652," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
- 3 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 269.
- 4 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 24.
- 5 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 7.
- 6 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 45, 68, 118, 133, 136, 137, 141, 142, 143 144, 145, 152, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 187, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 288, 374, 378, 425, 444, 530, 572, 667.
- 7 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 3, 14, 23, 30, 56, 59, 80-182, 205, 208.
- 8 Deutsches Archäologisches Institute, "http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2283160," iDAI.gazetteer
How to Cite This Entry
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Bibliography:
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Mecca.” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, Mario Kozah and Thomas A. Carlson. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2906.About this Entry
Entry Title: Mecca
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- Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, Mario Kozah, and Thomas A. Carlson, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
- Thomas A. Carlson and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Mecca”
Additional Credit:
- Research on coordinates by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- al-Yaʿqūbī data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
- Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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