Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Arabia, History Of, Quraysh

According to Muslim tradition, Mecca had at one time been in the hands of Jurhum, a people living on the central west coast recorded in Greco-Latin sources as Gorrhamites. But sometime about AD 500 (�five generations before the Prophet Muhammad�) Qusayy ibn Kilab, called al-Mujammi' (�The Unifier�), is credited with having brought together scattered groups of Bedouin and installed

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