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The Kaaba is a cuboid-shaped structure made of stones. It is approximately 15 m (49 ft 3 in) high with sides measuring 12 m (39 ft 4 in) × 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in) wide [88] (Hawting states 10 m (32 ft 10 in). [89] Inside the Kaaba, the floor is made of marble and limestone. The interior walls are clad with tiled, white marble halfway to the roof ...
Masses of Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca on Thursday circled the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, a day before heading to the nearby desert area of Mina to officially open the Hajj, the ...
1631 - Kaaba rebuilt. [10] 1802/1803 - Mecca "captured by the Sa'udi-Wahhabi army." [11] 1812/1813 - Wahhabis ousted by Egyptian forces. [9] 1840 - Ottomans in power again. [9] 1855 - The Hejaz rebellion takes place in Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire, and results in riots in both Mecca and Jeddah. [12]
Upon Muhammad's victorious return to Mecca in 630 CE, Ali broke the idols in and around the Kaaba, [25] similar to what, according to the Quran, Abraham did in his homeland. Thus ended polytheistic use of the Kaaba, and began monotheistic rule over it and its sanctuary. [26] [27] [28] [29]
Muslim pilgrims have wrapped up the Hajj, or pilgrimage, in the deadly summer heat on Tuesday with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the ...
Kaaba Makkah (Mecca) Kiswah as pictured on February 22, 2024. The kiswa (Arabic: كسوة الكعبة, kiswat al-ka'bah) is the cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is draped annually, though the date of draping has changed over the years. [1]
According to tradition, the Kaaba was a cube-like, originally roofless structure housing a black stone revered as a relic. [121] The sanctuary was dedicated to Hubal (Arabic: هبل), who, according to some sources, was worshiped as the greatest of the 360 idols the Kaaba contained, which probably represented the days of the year. [122]
The Black Stone was held in reverence well before Islam. It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabataeans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage. The Kaaba held 360 idols of the Meccan gods.