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Medina, [a] officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (Arabic: المدينة المنورة, romanized: al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, lit. 'The Luminous City', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [al.maˈdiːna al.mʊˈnawːara]) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina), is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.
The Medina Province ( Arabic: مِنْطَقَة ٱلْمَدِيْنَة ٱلْمُنَوَّرَة, romanized : Minṭaqat Al-Madīnah Al-Munawarah) is a province ( minṭaqah) of Saudi Arabia on the country's western side along the Red Sea coast. It has an area of 151,990 km 2 (58,680 sq mi) and a population of 2,132,679 (2017 Census) [ 1 ...
The Prophet's Mosque ( Arabic: ٱلْمَسْجِد ٱلنَّبَوِي, romanized : al-Masjid an-Nabawī, lit. 'Mosque of the Prophet') is the second mosque built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Medina, after that of Quba, as well as the second largest mosque and holiest site in Islam, after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, in the Saudi ...
The State of Medina at its greatest peak, 632 AD. The first Islamic State, better known as State of Medina[ 2] was the first Islamic state established by Islamic prophet Muhammad in Medina in 622 CE under the Constitution of Medina. It represented the political unity of the Muslim Ummah (nation). After Muhammad's death, his companions known as ...
The Seven Mosques ( Arabic: المساجد السبعة, romanized :al-Masājid al-Saʿba) is a complex of six small historic and often visited mosques in the city of Medina, Saudi Arabia. Despite only consisting of six mosques, the complex is called seven because some think it originally consisted of seven mosques. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Another reason ...
Al-Madinah Museum ( Arabic: متحف المدينة المنورة) is a museum in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia, that exhibits Al-Madinah heritage and history featuring different archaeological collections, visual galleries and rare images that related to Al-Medina. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The museum exhibits around 2,000 rare artifacts that capture the ...
The Islamic University of Madinah (Arabic: الجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة المنورة) is a public Islamic university in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Established by King Saud bin Abdulaziz in 1961, [ 1 ] the institute is said to have been associated with Salafism , while claiming to have exported Salafi -inclined theologians ...
The Quba Mosque ( Arabic: مَسْجِد قُبَاء, romanized : Masjid Qubāʾ) is a mosque located in Medina, in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, built in the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 7th century C.E. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is thought to be the first mosque in the world, built on the first day of Muhammad's emigration to ...