Zubaidah bint Ja'far
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Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur was the best known of the Abbasid princesses, and the wife and double cousin of Harun al-Rashid. She is particularly remembered for the series of wells, reservoirs a
Gold Dinar of Harun al-Rashid mint in Baghdad Dated AH 184 (800 CE). "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33), Kalima in three lines across field / "Bismillah struck" in outer margin, "By order of the Heir Al-Amin, son of the Commander of the Faithful in inner margin, "Muhammad the messenger of Allah" in three lines across field.
Tomb of Zobiede near Baghdad, as drawn by Robert Ker Porter, ca. 1818
Photograph of Tomb of Zobiede, ca. 1920
Mecca
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Mecca, officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and is the capital of Mecca Province. Mecca is considered the birthplace of Islam and the Islamic prophet
Great Mosque of Mecca 1
The Kabah in the Grand Mosque of Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Pilgrims cover Arafat's roads, plains and mountain Flickr Al Jazeera English
Jabbal An Nour Makkah