al-Masjid al-Ḥarām
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The mosque that surrounds the Kaʿba
in Mecca.
Place Type
mosque
Descriptions
“ذكر مسجد الحرام شرفه الله وكرمه. والمسجد الحرام في وسط البلد. وهو متسع الساحة. طوله من شرق إلى غرب أزيد من أربعمائة ذراع” 4
“وصوامع المسجد الحرام خمس: [...]” 5
“ومن باب الصفا الذي هو من أبواب المسجد الحرام الى الصفا ست وسبعون خطوة” 6
The main mosque in Mecca.
Attestation
See Also
"Great Mosque of Mecca" in WikipediaWorks Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 25.
- 2 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 91, 105, 106, 81-108.
- 3 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 146, 153, 154.
- 4 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 146.
- 5 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 153.
- 6 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 154.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “al-Masjid al-Ḥarām.” 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/2909.About this Entry
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- 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 Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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