Mecca (Makkah)

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1. Story
2. A settlement in the Hijaz on the western Arabian caravan corridor, and the city Muslims hold to be the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the site of the Kaaba, toward which Muslims pray and to which the Hajj pilgrimage is directed. Its pre-Islamic role as a trading and cult centre is described in later Arabic sources; the scale of that earlier commerce has been questioned by some modern historians who find little corroboration in external records, and this remains debated. Under Saudi law access to Mecca is restricted to Muslims — a legal fact of the present day that also constrains which researchers can survey the site, and therefore what archaeological evidence exists.
3. Knowledge
4. Islam
5. Mecca (Makkah)
6. Connections
7. Islam
8. The Hijra — the Muslim community's migration from Mecca to Medina
9. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
10. Bukhara
11. Kashgar
12. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
13. Battle of Talas
14. Mecca (Makkah)
15. Jerusalem (Old City)
16. Malacca (Melaka)
17. The Hijra — the Muslim community's migration from Mecca to Medina
18. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
19. Construction phases of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani
20. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
21. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
22. Evidence
23. Saudi law restricts entry to Mecca (and to the central area of Medina) to Muslims; the restriction covers the city and its sacred boundaries rather than the Masjid al-Haram alone, and is enforced by the state.