One day, in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad dropped a bombshell on his ... the religion he began preaching in the early seventh century. Racial equality was one of them. Muhammad’s words jolted ...

The journey recreates Muhammad's own path as the native son returned to his tribal home as the leader of a vibrant new religion. Unlike other sacred sites, Mecca is closed off to believers of ...

It was in Mecca that the Islamic faith was born. Islam's holy book, the Koran, originates in Mecca, where Muhammad was born and received his first revelations from Allah (both Allah and God are Arabic ...

One was - from faith, because Mecca, even before Muhammad, was a pilgrimage center ... ian stance of nonviolent resistance. What he was preaching, the message that he brought from the Quran ...

Every year, millions of Muslims from around the world gather annually in Mecca to perform Hajj ... has the financial means to do after Prophet Muhammad’s “farewell pilgrimage” in 632 ...

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