Assʿad Sulaiman Abdo
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Professor and Chairman, Department of Geography, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. President, Saudi Geographical Society. Author of Land and Air Transport in Saudi Arabia and others.
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Mecca, city, western Saudi Arabia, located in the Ṣirāt Mountains, inland from the Red Sea coast. It is the holiest of Muslim cities. Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was born in Mecca, and it is toward this religious center that Muslims turn five times daily in prayer (see qiblah). All devout and…
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