HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Hira, Kaaba, Quraysh
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Islam: early islam, kaaba the holiest place in islam a large cube-shaped building inside the al-masjid al-haram mosque in. Mecca: the black stone of mecca, or kaaba stone, is a muslim relic, which according to islamic tradition dates to the time of adam and eve. It is the eastern cornerstone of the kaaba, the ancient sacred stone building towards which muslims pray, in the center of the. In or about 570, muhammad, the prophet of islam, was born into a family belonging to a clan of quraish, the ruling tribe of mecca, a city in the. Hijaz region of northwestern arabia: originally the site of the kaaba, mecca had, with the decline of southern. Khadijah as her factor, actively engaged with trading caravans to the north: sometime later, he married her, and had two sons, neither of whom survived, and four daughters by her. In his 40s, he began to meditate in a cave on mount hira, just outside of.
