Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Mecca is divided into 34 districts. The city centers on the al-Haram area, which contains the Masjid al-Haram. The area around the mosque is the old city and contains the most famous district of Mecca, Ajyad. The main street that runs to al-Haram is the Ibrahim al-Khalil Street, named after Ibrahim. Traditional, historical homes built of local ...
This is a list of the largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states, based on the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report (2010 population estimates from the report's 2007 revision).
Rank Country City Population Founding date Image 1 Egypt Cairo: 22,623,874 968 CE [3]: 2 Iraq Baghdad: 8,126,755 762 CE [4]: 3 Saudi Arabia Riyadh: 7,676,654 1746 CE [5]: 4 Egypt ...
A house-by-house survey of the old districts was made in 1979, showing that some 1000 traditional buildings still existed, though the number of structures with great historic value was far less. In 1990, a Jeddah Historical Area Preservation Department was founded. [33] [34] The modern city has expanded wildly beyond its old boundaries.
Islamabad (/ ɪ z ˈ l ɑː m ə b æ d /; [7] Urdu: اسلامآباد, romanized: Islāmābād, listen ⓘ; transl. 'City of Islam') is the capital city of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. [8] It is the country's ninth-most populous city with a population of over 1.2 million people [ 5 ] [ 9 ] and is federally administered by the ...
Islamic Cairo (Arabic: قاهرة المعز, romanized: Qāhira al-Muʿizz, lit. 'Al-Mu'izz's Cairo'), or Medieval Cairo, officially Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية al-Qāhira tārīkhiyya), refers mostly to the areas of Cairo, Egypt, that were built from the Muslim conquest in 641 CE until the city's modern expansion in the 19th century during Khedive Ismail's rule, namely ...
Mosul was attacked on 4 June 2014. After six days of fighting, on 10 June the Islamic State took over the city during the June 2014 Northern Iraq offensive. [49] [50] [51] By August, the city's new ISIL administration was dysfunctional, with frequent power cuts, a tainted water supply, collapse of infrastructure, and failing health care. [52]