Makkah
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the sacred town · umm al-qurá · أم القرى · مكة
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The sacred city, destination of the jinn seeking guidance and of the converts in the annunciation reports.
I marvel at the jinn and at their seeking — and at their girthing of the white camels with their saddle-frames they rush down to Makkah seeking the guidance — the truthful of the jinn is not as their liar So ride out to the chosen ones of Hāshim — for their forefeet are not as their tails
I marvel at the jinn and at their overbearing — and at their girthing of the white camels with their camel-saddles they rush down to Makkah seeking the guidance — the believers of the jinn are not as their unbelievers So ride out to the chosen ones of Hāshim — among its hills and its stones
I marvel at the jinn and at their spying about — and at their girthing of the white camels with their saddle-cloths they rush down to Makkah seeking the guidance — the best of the jinn is not as their foul ones So ride out to the chosen ones of Hāshim — and lift up your two eyes to their head
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The sacred city known as the mother of the towns, adduced as proof that umm in Arabic signifies origin and pre-eminence rather than maternal descent.
For this reason they said umm al-kitāb for its original, umm al-qurá for Makkah, and umm al-dunyā for Egypt because of the multitude of its people.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The Prophet's birthplace.
our lord and master Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, whose body appeared in Makkah and was hidden away in al-Madīnah, and whose noble name came to be present throughout the world;