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the Kaaba is the five prayers'' qibla in the books
Jerusalem was the first qibla, then it changed
Medina is the polity''s centre, not the qibla
the qibla is part of the prayer
Quraysh gathered the Syria-Yemen trade
Mecca is an un-farmed valley in the sources
Mecca is inland, not coastal
Mecca was known for trade, not mining
the sources name the cave on the Mount of Light
revelation was in the cave, not the House
the start was on the mountain, not the mosque
revelation was not in the market
the conquest in Ramadan 8 AH
they returned in 630 at the conquest
that is the year they left, not returned
the conquest is seventh-century
the city stood on Zamzam water in memory
Zamzam is a well, not a mountain
Zamzam is water, not a tribe
Zamzam is water, not a market
Hajj is in the twelfth Hijri month
Ramadan is the fasting month, not Hajj
Muharram opens the year, not Hajj
Rajab is sacred, not the Hajj month
the Prophet came from Quraysh and left it
Quraysh is Meccan, not Yathribi
the Franks came centuries later
Quraysh is an Arab tribe, not Persian
the sources join God''s House and the message''s start there
it was never the world''s largest city
the caliphate sat in Medina, then Damascus, then Baghdad
the conquest and removing the idols in the sources
the Kaaba predates the conquest by centuries
Mecca yielded without burning in the sources
the migration was 622, not 630
accounts of Mecca reach us from al-Azraqi to the travellers
Muslims wrote about Mecca centuries before Europe
Mecca is among the most-described cities in books
the Crusaders wrote of Syria, not Mecca
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