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Medina

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Medina (Medinat al-Nabi) 

Western Arabian oasis town; *Islam’s second holiest city. Originally Yathrib, it became Madina, short for Madinat al-Nabi, ‘city of the Prophet’, when *Muhammad fled *Mecca and was welcomed there in 622. He is buried in its mosque.

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Night view of the mosque of the Prophet, Medina. © Mohamed Messara/epa/Corbis

Shawkat M. Toorawa

Bibliography

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W. M. Watt, Muhammad at Medina (1956).Find this resource: