The Kaaba (Arabic: ٱلْكَعْبَة, romanized: al-Kaʿbah, lit. 'The Cube', Arabic pronunciation: ), also spelled Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah (Arabic: ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, romanized: al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah, lit. 'Honored Ka'bah'), is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, the Masjid al-Haram in ...

En tiempos de Mahoma, la tribu Quraish era la encargada de guardar el santuario de la Kaaba. Mahoma era hijo de un mercader perteneciente a esta tribu. 1. La Piedra Negra en la esquina sureste. En 684 la piedra se resquebrajó a causa del calor provocado por un incendio. En 930 la tomaron como botín los cármatas en su ataque a La Meca. Fue restituida en 950.

In vorislamischer Zeit wurde die Kaaba von arabischen Stämmen als Heiligtum des Gottes Hubal verehrt. Zum vorislamischen Kaaba-Kult gehörte, neben der Verehrung von Allah, die Verehrung der Göttinnen al-Lāt, Manat und Uzza.Schon in vorislamischer Zeit gab es ein spezielles Priesteramt, das mit der Kaaba verbunden war und hidschāba genannt wurde. Die Inhaber …

The Black Stone (Arabic: ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد, al-Ḥajaru al-Aswad, 'Black Stone') is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.It is revered by Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and Eve.

La Kaaba, Ka'ba ou Ka'aba (arabe : الكَعْبة al-ka'ba, « le cube »), est un édifice datant du VII e siècle et recouvert d'une étoffe de soie noire, la kiswa, presque au centre de la cour de la grande mosquée de la Mecque (al-Masjid al-haram).Elle est le lieu le plus sacré de l'islam, et elle est entourée de différents édicules.Dans l'angle sud-est du bâtiment est enchâssée ...

The word muslim (Arabic: مسلم, IPA: ; English: / ˈ m ʌ z l ɪ m /, / ˈ m ʊ z l ɪ m /, / ˈ m ʊ s l ɪ m / or moslem / ˈ m ɒ z l ə m /, / ˈ m ɒ s l ə m /) is the active participle of the same verb of which islām is a verbal noun, based on the triliteral S-L-M "to be whole, intact". A female adherent is a muslima (Arabic: مسلمة) (also transliterated as "Muslimah").The ...

Masjid al-Haram (Arabic: ٱَلْمَسْجِدُ ٱلْحَرَامُ ‎, romanized: al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, lit. 'The Inviolable Mosque'), also known as the Great Mosque of Mecca, is a mosque that surrounds the Kaaba in Mecca, in the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia.It is a site of pilgrimage in the Hajj, which every Muslim must do at least once in their lives if able, and is also the main ...

Hubal in Kaaba. Hubal most prominently appeared at Mecca, where an image of him was worshipped at the Kaaba.According to Karen Armstrong, the sanctuary was dedicated to Hubal, who was worshipped as the greatest of the 360 idols the Kaaba contained, which probably represented the days of the year.. Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi's Book of Idols describes the image as …

Die Qibla (arabisch قبلة, DMG qibla ‚Gebetsrichtung‘) ist die vom Koran vorgeschriebene Gebetsrichtung der Muslime zur Kaaba in Mekka, dem höchsten Heiligtum des Islam, wo immer sich der Gläubige auf der Erde befinden mag. Die Ermittlung dieser Richtung führte schon früh zu maßgeblichen Verbesserungen in Astronomie und Himmelsmechanik durch die Araber.

The Kaaba in Mecca long held a major economic and religious role for the area. Seventeen months after Muhammad's arrival in Medina, it became the Muslim Qibla, or direction for prayer . The Kaaba has been rebuilt several times; the present structure, built in 1629, is a reconstruction of an earlier building dating to 683.