Name: Musha
Address: Musha, Egypt & Nile

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Mecca

The most sacred city of Islam, in the Hejaz about 72 km inland from Jeddah, where the Prophet Muhammad was born, the Kaaba stands and the annual Hajj is held. The Encyclopaedia of Islam presents it as a trading centre dominated by Quraysh before Islam, then a city ruled by Umayyads, Abbasids, sharifs and Ottomans until Abd al-Aziz Al Saud took it in 1924. Ibn Battuta describes the Sacred Mosque in his day, counting its ten gates, domes and porticoes, measuring the distance between al-Safa and al-Marwa in steps, and noting that Dar al-Nadwa was made a congregational mosque attached to the haram. The Arabic Papyrology Database preserves two paper documents sent from Mecca to business friends in Fustat, a business letter about the pilgrimage dated 901-1000 CE and a private greeting from the pilgrimage dated 1101-1200 CE

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