Name: Essouk
Address: Essouk, West Africa & Sahel

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Medina

City in the Hejaz to which the Prophet migrated in 622 CE; site of the Prophet's Mosque and the first Muslim community. The Prophet declared it a sanctuary as Abraham declared Mecca — its bounds 'between 'Ayr and Thawr' (or 'to Uhud' in the reading Abu 'Ubayd and al-Hazimi preferred) and 'between its two lava fields'; within them hunting and tree-cutting are forbidden and the bloodwit for unintended killing is heavier. Samhudi counts nearly ninety-five names for it, among them Tayba, Taba and Yathrib. The Encyclopaedia of Islam describes it as the residence of the Prophet after the hijra and one of the sacred cities of Islam: before Islam an oasis of scattered settlements shared by Arab clans and Jewish groups, then the seat of the first caliphs until the centre of the caliphate moved away from it in 656 CE, and afterwards a quieter city that came under Saudi rule in December 1925.

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