the Mecca fitna — its amīr deposed and another installed

الفتنة بمكة وعزل أميرها وإقامة غيره

c. 1178 CE · 574 AH

Mecca

A fitna shook Mecca: its amīr was deposed and another installed — the Ḥaram's sharifs then contending over the emirate and the khuṭba 1.

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117011801190 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Mecca

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Summary

Strife broke out in Mecca, and its emir was deposed and another installed in his place. At that time the emirs of the Haram were competing for the emirate 1.

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Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone· Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 76
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Dar al-Nadwa

The council house founded by Qusayy on the north side of the mosque of the Kaaba, with its door into the mosque; Quraysh deliberated its grave matters and married off its daughters there.