Fakhkh

by Turner, John P.

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Fakhkh is a wādī located approximately four kilometres northwest of the great mosque in Mecca. It is now called al-Shuhadāʾ (the Martyrs) but has also been known as Wādī al-Zāhir. According to Yāqūt (d. 310/923), ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUmar (d. 132/749–50, son of the second caliph) and other Companions of the Prophet were said to have been buried here. There is a marker in al-Shuhadāʾ for the gravesite of ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUmar, but it is best known as the site of the battle that ended

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Fakhkh is a wādī located approximately four kilometres northwest of the great mosque in Mecca. It is now called al-Shuhadāʾ (the Martyrs) but has also been known as Wādī al-Zāhir. According to Yāqūt (d. 310/923), ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUmar (d. 132/749–50, son of the second caliph) and other Companions of the Prophet were said to have been buried here. There is a marker in al-Shuhadāʾ for the gravesite of ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUmar, but it is best known as the site of the battle that ended

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1961

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eng Islam

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Turner, John P.

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