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Mount Quʿayqʿān
mountain, Saudi Arabia
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physiography of Mecca
- In Mecca: City site
…feet, to the east and Mount Quʿayqʿān, which reaches 1,401 feet, to the west. Mount Hirāʾ rises to 2,080 feet on the northeast and contains a cave in which Muhammad sought isolation and visions before he became a prophet. It was also in this cave that he received the first…
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