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 ...

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 ...

The hilltop site is the most sacred place in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam. It is known to Jews ... that the status quo "with regard to the holy places" will be left intact.