{
 "id": "building/al-qullays",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "al-qullays",
 "label": {
  "en": "al-Qullays (the Yemeni Kaaba)",
  "ar": "القليس (الكعبة اليمانية)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The church Abraha built in Yemen to divert the Arabs’ pilgrimage from Mecca — the ambition that led to the elephant campaign.",
  "ar": "الكنيسة التي بناها أبرهة باليمن ليصرف إليها حج العرب عن بيت الله بمكة؛ وهي الغاية التي قادته إلى حملة الفيل."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place",
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "islam-and-christianity",
  "sacred-space-and-pilgrimage"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 40–41 (batch 25b)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "القليس: الكنيسة التي بناها أبرهة باليمن وسماها الكعبة اليمانية ليصرف إليها حج العرب — مقدمة حملة الفيل."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "لما تمكن أبرهة من حكومة اليمن أخذ ينشر الديانة المسيحية بأوفر نشاط وأوسع نطاق، حتى بلغ من نشاطه أنه بنى كنيسة باليمن كانت تسمى الكعبة اليمانية، وأراد أن يصرف حج العرب إليها وأن يهدم بيت الله الذي بمكة {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "القليس كنيسة كبيرة بناها أبرهة لينافس الكعبة في مكة؛ فشلت خطته بما قصه القرآن في سورة الفيل."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-qullays",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Qullays: the church Abraha built in Yemen and called the Yemeni Ka'ba, to divert the Arabs' pilgrimage to it — the preface to the Elephant campaign."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "Once Abraha held Yemen's government, he began spreading the Christian religion with the fullest energy and widest scope, to the point that he built a church in Yemen called the Yemeni Ka'ba, intending to divert the Arabs' pilgrimage to it and to demolish God's House at Mecca {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Al-Qullays is a great church Abraha built to rival the Ka'ba at Mecca; his plan failed as the Qur'an recounted in Surat al-Fil."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-qullays",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/sanaa",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/al-aswad-al-ansi",
  "person/abraha",
  "place/sanaa",
  "building/dar-al-nadwa",
  "building/kaaba",
  "event/building-of-the-kaaba",
  "event/burial-of-the-prophet",
  "event/change-of-qibla"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}