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  2. Kaaba - Wikipedia

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    The Kaaba, [b] sometimes referred to as al-Kaʽba al-Musharrafa, [d] is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

  3. Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf - Wikipedia

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    Many authors have ascribed harmful acts (i.e. mocking Muhammad) deeds to Ka'b. [4] According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, following the victory of the Muslims over the Quraysh in the Battle of Badr, in March 624, Ka'b was angry at the execution of a number of Meccan notables who had been captured after that battle, the Meccan notables who caused a lot of damage against the Muslims. [8]

  4. Kiswah - Wikipedia

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    The tradition of covering the Kaaba predates the emergence of Islam, with various Yemeni textiles composing the draping. [3] According to Ibn Hisham, King Tubba Abu Karib As'ad of the Himyarite Kingdom, who would later become a revered figure in Islamic traditions, clothed Kaaba for the first time during the rule of the Jurhum tribe of Mecca in the early fifth century CE after learning about ...

  5. Bakkah - Wikipedia

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    The Kaaba in Mecca or Makkah.. Bakkah (Arabic: بَكَّةُ [ˈbɛk.kɛh]), is a place mentioned in surah 3 ('Āl 'Imrān), ayah 96 of the Qur'an, a verse sometimes translated as: "Indeed, the first House [of worship] established for mankind was that at Bakkah [i.e., Makkah] - blessed and a guidance for the worlds."

  6. Ka'b al-Ahbar - Wikipedia

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    Ka’b said: So it was written the next day that he was a truthful man'' [18] In the book Comprehensive remembrance of the doctrines of the jurists of the countries ; It was reported to him that Omar bin Al-Khattab wanted to go to Iraq , so Kaab Al-Ahbar said to him: Do not go there, O Commander of the Faithful, for there is nine-tenths of ...

  7. Kaabas - Wikipedia

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    Ka'abas also spelt Ka'bas (Arabic: الكعبات) are the plural term used to describe houses of worship mainly located in the Arabian Peninsula that are cubic in shape and resemble the Kaaba structure from Mecca. They are mainly dedicated to various gods from the Arabian pantheon, although the term has been used to describe some Christian ...

  8. Kaba - Wikipedia

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    Kaaba, the holiest place in the Islamic World, a large cube-shaped building inside the al-Masjid al-Haram mosque in Mecca; Kaba, Hungary, a town in Hajdú-Bihar County, Hungary, which had a rare carbonaceous chondrite meteorite fall in 1857

  9. Hubal - Wikipedia

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    In Arabian mythology, Hubal (Arabic: هُبَل) was a god worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia, notably by the Quraysh at the Kaaba in Mecca.The god's icon was a human figure believed to control acts of divination, which was performed by tossing arrows before the statue.