According to him, most of the Muslims returned to Mecca prior to Hijra, while a second group rejoined them in Medina. Ibn Hisham and Tabari, however, only talk about one migration to Ethiopia. These accounts agree that Meccan persecution played a major role in Muḥammad's decision to suggest that a number of his. [Pub.31BbM] Free Download: Return To Mecca PDF by Dennis Avi Lipkin: Return To Mecca. ISBN: # Date: 2015-08-06. Description: PDF-c1569 Will Islam be defeated and terminated when the Judeo. Christian West conquers Mecca and Medina? In Return to Mecca. Avi Lipkin reviews the biblical history of Mecca.

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First, he argues that Mecca, though central to Islam, has never been central to Muslim civilisation. It has never been the capital of any Muslim society, not even that of Muhammad, who, rejected in the city of his birth, fled to Medina. The culture, learning and achievements of cities that were capitals – including Baghdad and Istanbul – had little impact on Mecca, which throughout the centuries has remained “narrow, enclosed and indifferent to the changing realities of the wider world”. Darkest Dungeon Build 7527 Starfire. Pilgrims on their way to perform the ritual stoning of Satan (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) In the same way, he says, the city’s residents and their way of life have been largely ignored in the great accounts of pilgrimage, which have dwelt on the travelling rather than the destination. Those residents have had their own concerns, “earthly, worldly concerns that they pursued in ways far removed from the sublime ideals the rest of the Muslim world was constructing around Mecca”. It’s a book that will outrage the hostage-beheading fanatics of ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), though it might be read with profit by anyone striving to understand them.

“Throughout history,” Sardar told me, “controlling Mecca has meant controlling Islam. If a new fanatical organisation were to take over Mecca – and ISIL has made clear it would like to do so – that would have consequences not just for Islam but for the world as a whole.” Dogmatism is entirely at odds with the original spirit of the pilgrimage, or Hajj. On his, with the recalcitrant donkey, Sardar was inspired by the example of the 14th-century author Ibn Battuta, who, en route to Mecca, “picked up the travel bug that was so much a part of the historic Muslim experience”. He worked his way around the Muslim world, finishing in China before returning home via West Africa.

“The idea of the pilgrimage was that en route you would meet people and learn about different cultures. You discovered the diversity and richness of Islam and the great variety of human culture.” Nowadays, he says, those who can afford the cost of a Hajj package (£3,000 to £3,500) fly in in a group, and seldom meet anyone from a different culture. “This is why we have so much sectarian violence – because people know nothing of other sects and assume that theirs has the absolute truth.” Some of the truths about Mecca, the built city, are ugly, he writes, but they must be faced: “Even in the place Muslims idealise as sublime, human feet stand firm in mud and slime”. He chronicles power struggles in which the Sacred Mosque itself has taken a battering; a succession of rulers who killed to gain ascendancy and kept it by flogging those who didn’t share their beliefs.

One of the better rulers, Abu Nomay, abdicated in favour of two of his 30 sons, Humaida and Rumaitha. Humaida, reluctant to share power and fearful of challenges from his other brothers, killed one of them, Abul Ghaith, in 1314 and then invited the others to dinner. The main dish was the body of their brother, cooked whole. The inhabitants of Mecca, not content with selling to the pilgrims (“We sow not wheat or sorghum; the pilgrims are our crops”), have robbed them too. At the end of the ninth century, one religious sect, the Qarmatians, “made a point of attacking caravans and succeeded in inflicting humiliation and bloodshed on the Holy City”. Sardar asks: “What is it about visions of paradise that turns minds hellish? This enduring human conundrum is neither a hypothetical question nor one exclusive to Islam.” Muslims await prayers at Mecca's Grand Mosque (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) The community Muhammad founded in Medina had been a multi-religious one, but Jews and Christians were banned from entering both Mecca and Medina by Muawiya, who was the first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty and reigned from 661 to 680.