• Muhammad led the Conquest of Mecca in Ramadan of the Islamic year 8 AH (corresponding to Dec. 629/Jan. 630). The Quraysh in Mecca was Muhammad's final...
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    The conquest of Mecca (Arabic: فَتْحُ مَكَّةَ Fatḥu Makkah, alternatively, "liberation of Mecca") was a military campaign undertaken by Muhammad and his...
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    existence, ruled by the Sharif of Mecca. A sharif is a descendant of Hasan ibn Ali, Muhammad's grandson. In Western sources, the prince of Mecca was known as...
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    of the leader of the Sharifate of Mecca, traditional steward of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the surrounding Hejaz. The term sharif is...
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  • chapter of his 1934 book Islam at the Crossroads. Arafat: A Monthly Critique of Muslim Thought (1946–47) A Road to MeccaThe Journey of Muhammad Asad Islam...
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  • the Printing of the Holy Quran. His death occurred on 16 April 2016. Muhammad Ayyub was born in either 1952 or 1953 (1372 AH) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia...
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    in fact support him when the disbelievers drove him out ˹of Mecca˺ and he was only one of two. While they both were in the cave, he reassured his companion...
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  • Abu Sufyan ibn Harb (category People of the Muslim conquest of the Levant)
    when Muhammad entered Mecca in 630, he was among the first to submit and was given a stake in the nascent Muslim state, playing a role at the Battle of Hunayn...
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  • c. 546–570) was the father of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was the son of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim and Fatima bint Amr of the Makhzum Clan. He...
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    Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah (born Roshan Akhtar; 7 August 1702 – 26 April 1748) was the thirteenth Mughal emperor from 1719 to 1748. He was son of Khujista...
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  • on the interpretation of the Holy Qur'an. He also used to teach at the Holy Mosque in Mecca during Ramadan. After completing his memorization of the Qur'an...
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    March 640), was one of the Sahabah (companions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was born in Mecca and is considered to have been the first mu'azzin in...
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    Following his settlement in Mecca in 1935 Muhammad married a daughter of Abdullah bin Hasan Al Sheikh, chief qadi of the country. Muhammad had twenty-five children:...
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  • to Africa, not Mecca. Modern Nation of Islam theology is based upon the belief that Fard's teaching of Elijah Muhammad was fulfillment of scripture regarding...
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    have been the Maliki Imams of the Haram of Mecca. Muhammad ibn Alawi al-Maliki was born in Mecca. Due to the well-known nature of their family, they preferred...
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    Migration to Abyssinia (category Life of Muhammad)
    with the Aksumite king Armah and Ella Tsaham. Some of the Sahabah exiles returned to Mecca and made the migration to Medina with Muhammad, while the others...
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    caravan. As a photographer and author, he documented the holy sites of Islam at Mecca and Medina, taking the first ever photographs in what is now Saudi Arabia...
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    Shia Muslims agree on the three Holiest sites in Islam being, respectively, the Masjid al-Haram (including the Kaaba), in Mecca; the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi...
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  • Medina. The direction of prayer is converted from Jerusalem to Mecca. 624: Death of Ruqayyah daughter of Muhammad and wife of Uthman . 625: Battle of Uhud...
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    born in Gaza, Palestine to the Banu Muttalib clan of the Quraysh tribe, he was relocated at the age of two and raised in Mecca. He later resided in Medina...
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  • Wahhabi War (category Sharifate of Mecca)
    Mecca. In 1815, one of the main rebels, Bakhroush bin Alass of Zahran tribe, was killed and beheaded by Muhammad Ali forces in Al Qunfudhah. In the spring...
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  • Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi' (category Companions of the Prophet)
    later married to the fourth Caliph Ali.: 21  When Muhammad, after declaring himself to be a prophet, lost popularity in Mecca, the Quraysh pressured...
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  • under English and French occupation, due to persecution faced by scholars and students of Islamic studies.Their destination was Mecca. They embarked on their...
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    direct descendant of Muhammad. Born in Mecca, Hejaz, Ottoman Empire, Abdullah was the second of four sons of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, and his first...
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  • Ibn Abbas (category Family of Muhammad)
    governor of Basra. He withdrew to Mecca shortly afterwards. During the reign of Mu'awiya I he lived in Hejaz and often travelled to Damascus. After Mu'awiya...
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    The Ashtiname of Muhammad, also known as the Covenant or Testament (Testamentum) of Muhammad, is a charter or writ granting protection and other privileges...
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  • Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib (category Family of Muhammad)
    than the Prophet. Ibn Hajar wrote of Ibn Sayyid's hadiths: "Hamza was born two to four years before Muhammad".[page needed] Hamzah was born after 'Abd...
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  • Hashim ibn Abd Manaf (category Ancestors of Muhammad)
    العلا), was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the progenitor of the ruling Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca. At some...
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  • Abdul Halim (nationalist) (category Members of the Central Advisory Council)
    Siti Murbiyah, daughter of Kyai Haji Muhammad Ilyas. In 1909 he spent time in Mecca where he was exposed to ideas of Islamic reform being espoused by Rashid...
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  • who had conquered Hejaz from the Ottomans. When Wahabis captured Mecca in 1802, the Ottoman sultan ordered Muhammad Ali of Egypt to start moving against...
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