John Bagot Glubb
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Lieutenant General; Chief of General Staff, The Arab Legion, Amman, Jordan, 1939β56. Author of War in the Desert and others.
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Mecca, city, western Saudi Arabia, located in the αΉ’irΔt 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 andβ¦
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