This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the ...

The Muslim holy book is called the Qur'an ... Makkah is the holiest city in Islam. It is Muhammad’s birthplace and also the place the Qur'an was revealed. Hajj is a huge yearly pilgrimage ...

Last year, the first time that the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the week ... down below the compound, the holiest place where Jews are allowed to pray. From Wednesday evening, Ramadan and ...