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	Mecca - LoveToKnow Watches
		By him the dignity of sherif was deprived of much of its weight, and in 1827 a change of dynasty was effected by the appointment of Ibn `Aun.
		The grand sherif can muster a considerable force of freedmen and clients, and his kin, holding wells and lands in various places through the Hejaz, act as his deputies and administer the old Arabic customary law to the Bedouin.
		After the sherifs, the principal family of Mecca is the house of Shaibah, which holds the hereditary custodianship of the Ka`ba.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mecca (6004 words)

	Wikipedia: Hejaz
		Hejaz (also Hijaz, Hedjaz) is a region in the northwest of present-day Saudi Arabia; its main city is Jeddah, but it is probably better-known for the holy city of Makkah.
		Under the control of regional powers such as Egypt or the Ottoman Empire through most of its history, Hejaz enjoyed a brief period of political independence in the early 20th century.
		In 1916 its independence was proclaimed by Husain ibn Ali, the sherif of Makkah.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/he/hejaz.html (151 words)

	Shake the Heavens: Makkah Prayer Data
		Makkah is situated roughly in the middle of the Saudi coast line and approxiately 72km west of Jiddah.
		Makkah is the destination of the prescribed Hajj -- the pilgrimage which every Muslim should make at least once in his life if he is able.
		Makkah remained the spiritual focus of Islam because it was the destination for the pilgrimage that all Muslims were required, if feasible, to make once in their lives.
	shaketheheavens.org /cities/makkah.shtml (1932 words)

	Ain-Al-Yaqeen - July 22, 2005 - Article 10
		He said that Sherif was kidnapped on July 2, adding that the Foreign Ministry knew of his abduction 18 hours later and after news agencies reports on the kidnapping.
		Abul-Gheit denied reports that Sherif was sent to Iraq in response to a request by the United States, pointing out that the slain ambassador was chosen because he was fully aware of Iraq's conditions.
		For unknown reasons, Sherif refused during the day of abduction to be escorted by guards although he had six Egyptian well-trained guards and a number of Iraqi guards at his disposal, said Abul -Gheit.
	www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20050722/feat10en.htm (3837 words)

	The Ultimate Sharif of Mecca Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The Sharif of Mecca — sometimes the Sheriff of Makkah, with many other variant spellings — was the traditional steward of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, ruling over the two cities and the surrounding region.
		The sharif was charged with protecting the cities and ensuring the Hadj was safe and orderly.
		Chapter 5 of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which introduces the office of the Sherif of Mecca and the last holder of the office.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Sherif_of_Makkah (301 words)

	MECCA (Arab. Makkah) - Online Information article about MECCA (Arab. Makkah)
		The inner mountain wall is pierced by only two great passes, and the valleys descending from these embrace on both sides the Mecca hills.
		Holding this position commanding two great routes between the lowlands and inner Arabia, and situated in a narrow and ' A variant of the name Makkah is Bakkah (Sur.
		By him the dignity of sherif was deprived of much of its See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAR_MEC/MECCA_Arab_Makkah_.html (6180 words)

	Hejaz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lawrence ("of Arabia") of the British during World War I.
		In 1916 its independence was proclaimed by Sherif Hussein ibn Ali, the Sherif of Makkah.
		In 1924, however, ibn Ali's authority was usurped by ibn Saud of the neighboring nation of Nejd and became known as the Kingdom of Hijaz and Nejd and later the Saudi Arabian state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hejaz_Province,_Ottoman_Empire (248 words)

	Jeddah Water & Power Forum :: About Jeddah
		Situated on the western coast of Saudi Arabia, where the climate is moderated by the Red Sea, Jeddah is located at the heart of the region, positioning the city as the main center of commerce in the Middle East and North Africa with all of MENA's capitals within two hours flying distance.
		Although the city derived some income as the point of entry for pilgrims journeying to Makkah, there was a lull in its prosperous days and the city and its surrounding walls fell into a state of disrepair.
		Seventy kilometers to the east of Jeddah is Makkah.
	www.jwpf.com /index.php?page=jeddah (5595 words)

	Sharif of Mecca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Sharif of Mecca (شريف مكة) was the traditional steward of the holy cities of Mecca (Makkah) and Medina (Madinah).
		The sharif was charged with protecting the cities and their environs and ensuring the safety of pilgrims performing the Hadj.
		The title is sometimes spelled Sheriff or Sherif, with the latter variant used, for example, by T.E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
	72.51.33.237 /cgi-bin/nph-surf.cgi/010110A/uggc/ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Furevs_bs_Znxxnu (354 words)

	CGI, Jeddah - Jeddah City
		Jeddah is the gateway to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah.
		Although Riyadh is the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah is known as its commercial capital.
		Originally, four gates were set in these walls, Bab Sherif opening towards the south, Bab Makkah facing east, Bab Madinah in the north wall and a west gate facing the Red Sea.
	cgijeddah.tripod.com /general/jeddah.html (2401 words)

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		The sharif was charged with protecting the cities and their environs and ensuring the safety of pilgrims performing the Hajj.
		The title is sometimes spelled Sheriff or Sherif, with the latter variant used, for example, by T.E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
		The common-law political and legal office of sheriff found in some anglophone countries is unrelated.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Sherif_of_Makkah (453 words)

	Islam compare to Judaism and Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		During the Makkah period of Islam, there was no mutual fighting which took place between the Muslims and the disbelievers.
		It was a one sided attack which was declared by the disbelievers against the Muslims, and they persecuted many Muslims and killed some of them.
		We can learn this from the kind of Revelation, which Allah, revealed in Makkah, in which He instructed the Muslims to leave the disbelievers alone, and not to engage in a losing battle with them.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/1408/compare.htm (213 words)

	Friday Nasiha :: Issue 140 -
		Even in the face of provocation from their opponents, Muslims should not utter even a word that is contrary to the truth; nor should they lose their temper at the vulgarities which are flung at them by their opponents.
		In fact, believers should follow the Example of the best of examples, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), who was known for his noble character and patience, who would return the verbal abuses, harassments, and taunts by the unbelievers of Makkah and Madinah, with a beautiful smile and a prayer for their guidance.
		In previous issues, we discussed the phenomenon of weak faith that has become widespread amongst Muslims, saw that the root cause of this weakness of faith and doubt in the mind is a hardness of the person's heart due to forgetfulness of Allah.
	www.youngmuslims.ca /ymfn/archive_display.asp?ID=44 (1025 words)

	de Hedschas Hejaz also Hijaz Hedjaz is a region... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		de:Hedschas "Hejaz" (also "Hijaz", "Hedjaz") is a region in the northwest of present-day Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia; its main city is Jeddah Jeddah, but it is probably better-known for the holy city of Makkah Makkah.
		Under the control of regional powers such as Egypt Egypt or the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire through most of its history, Hejaz enjoyed a brief period of political independence in the early 20th century 20th century.
		In 1916 1916 its independence was proclaimed by Husain ibn Ali Husain ibn Ali, the sherif of Makkah.
	www.biodatabase.de /Hejaz (203 words)

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		Between the boom years of 1974 and 1980, the population of Jeddah doubled, and statistical experts predict that this figure will have doubled again by the end of the century.
		Jeddah is the Kingdom's principal seaport, the original gateway to Makkah and Madinah for pilgrims arriving by ship.
		Bab Jadeed, the new gate, was not built until the early 1900s and was wide enough to accommodate the motor car.
	www.arab.net /saudi/sa_jeddahgrowth.htm (1128 words)

	London Middle East Institute
		Edited with Adel Omar Sherif and Kate Daniels, Criminal Justice in Islam: Judicial Procedure in the Shari'a, published by IB Tauris, London & New York, 2003.
		Eugene Cotran and Adel Omar Sherif, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, London, Boston (1999).
		‘Makkah in the Qur'an and Hadith', (in Arabic) Al-Ahram, London, 28 July 1988.
	www.soas.ac.uk /lmei/home/members.cfm?contactid=173 (667 words)

	[www.ANTIC.org] The British empire is dead, finally
		In December Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary, wrote to Sherif Hussein favouring "Arab independence of Turkish domination".
		On June 5, 1916, Sherif Hussein fired a symbolic shot at the Ottoman barracks in Makkah to signal that the Arab revolt against Ottoman rule had begun.
		No one of course had told him about two gentlemen who had begun to discuss the future of the region seven months before.
	www.mail-archive.com /news@antic.org/msg04652.html (1355 words)

	IslamOnline - Art & Entertainment Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Despite the intellectual capital of these town libraries, Mauritania’s scholarly strength has always been at the grassroots—en brousse, as they say in French—in the itinerant schools and rural lectures known as mahadhras, organized by charismatic teachers and scholars always on the move.
		Mohameden Ould Ahmad Salem, a Nouakchott University graduate, taught himself calligraphy and is a specialist in Mauritania’s indigenous calligraphic styles.
		With most of his adventures behind him, and after having been comically mistaken for the king of Mauritania by the British governor-general of Gibraltar, Ould T’wayr Al-Janna arrived in Marrakech as the guest of the sultan.
	www.islamonline.net /English/artculture/2005/05/article04.shtml (2943 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Jidda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Mecca MECCA [Mecca] or Makkah, city (1993 pop.
		The third son of Husayn ibn Ali, sherif of Mecca, he is also called Faisal ibn Husayn.
		Faisal was educated in Constantinople and later sat in the Ottoman parliament as deputy for Jidda.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06644.html (637 words)

	Mavi Boncuk: 10/10/04
		He was the guardian of the Holy Shrines in Makkah and Madinah and the caliph of Islam, the Prince of the Faithful.
		Whitehall showered the Hashemite Sherif Hussein of Makkah and his Bedouin tribesmen with gold coins, Lee Enfield rifles, explosives and Maxim machine guns to revolt against the Turkish garrisons in the Hijaz, Syria and Iraq.
		The tragedy of the Kurds, Iraqi territorial claims on Kuwait as its "nineteenth province' (both were part of the Ottoman sanjak of Basra), the anti-British mood of the Arab street, and the current Najaf standoff are recurrent themes in modern Iraqi history - wars live on CNN born in the Ottoman sunset.
	maviboncuk.blogspot.com /2004_10_10_maviboncuk_archive.html (14030 words)

	SOAS: Centre of Isamic Studies: Publications
		Eugene Cotran and Adel Omar Sherif, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, London, Boston (1999) pp.
		Criminal Justice in Islam: Judicial Procedure in the Shari'a, edited by Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Adel Omar Sherif and Kate Daniels, IB Tauris, London & New York, 2003, pp 97-108.
		‘Makkah in the Qur'an and Hadith', (in Arabic)
	www.soas.ac.uk /centres/centreinfo.cfm?navid=154 (606 words)

	IslamOnline - Art & Entertainment Section
		The library of Ould Ahmad Sherif is a more humble affair, guarded by the aged notary public Muhammad Judu’, who unlocks its creaky door in a mud-plastered back-alley courtyard with a toothbrush-shaped wooden key.
		Ceiling panels of plaited palm fronds permit only a shadowy half light to enter the room, whose shelves contain cardboard conservation boxes, numbered into the 600s, in which the manuscripts are held.
		The library’s core holdings were acquired in the 14th century in Tunis during a buying trip by the library’s founder, Ahmad Sherif.
	www.mafhoum.com /press8/238C35.htm (2945 words)

	Women in islam versus Judaeo-Christian Tradition The Myth & The Reality
		Sherif Mohammad, an eminent writer-thinker with an academic background in electrical engineering, is active in preaching and propagation of Islam and has written extensively on Islamic issues and contemporary social and political problems affecting humanity at large.
		While Dr. Jamal Badawi's women articles give an overall understanding of women's status in Islam, Sherif's is a comparative analysis of the Abrahamic religions' views on a whole gamut of issues affecting women.
		Specially, Sherif booklet exposes the hypocrisy and double standard that wrongly scapegoat Islam.
	muslimconverts.com /women/judochristian.htm (17279 words)

	Lost in translation \| World dispatch \| Guardian Unlimited
		A sharp-eyed proofreader complained that it was "full of inconsistencies in the spelling of proper names, a point which reviewers often take up".
		Among other things, the proofreader noted that "Jeddah" alternated with "Jidda" throughout the book, while a man whose name began as Sherif Abd el Mayin later became el Main, el Mayein, el Muein, el Mayin and le Muyein.
		Lawrence, who relished such vagaries, told his proofreader to get lost.
	www.guardian.co.uk /elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,730805,00.html (1453 words)

	ARABIC MUSIC
		On the other hand in Makkah (Mecca) the tribes used to enjoy listening to "Al Qiyaan" - girl singers - plural of Qaynah coming with the caravans from Persia and the land of the Ceases.
		who was born in Makkah and moved later to Damascus.
		He played the "Oud" authored what could be called the "Grammar of music", and introduced new rhythms beats "percussion".
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/sesame/530/arabic.htm (2257 words)

	Article on transliteration
		A sharp-eyed proofreader complained that it was "full of inconsistencies in the spelling of proper names, a point which reviewers often take up".
		There are also a lot of vaguely phonetic spellings - such as "Koran" and "Mecca" - that bear little relation to the Arabic spelling but entered popular usage many years ago and are now difficult to eradicate.
		An internet search with Google shows that "Mecca" is used almost six times more often than "Makkah" (the more accurate spelling that Muslims generally prefer).
	bahai-library.org /etc/transliteration.html (1453 words)

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		In 1517 it came under Turkish suzerainty, although nominal rule remained in the hands of the Hashemite sherifs of
		Hejaz was captured under the second Saudi state; peace was restored in 1817 by the governor of
		The Hejaz was in 1916 proclaimed independent by Husayn ibn Ali, the sherif of
	hijaz.8m.net (468 words)

	SkyscraperCity - Makkah Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		March 10th, 2005 01:38 PM Makkah is amazing really.
		The Makkah Development Authority is set to approve the building of 153 residential towers at an estimated cost of $3.73bn, in a major housing project in the holy city, according to a report in Arab News.
		Turner is providing project management services for this multi-functional development overlooking the Holy Harem in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /printthread.php?t=189499 (552 words)

	Daily Kos: The Sack of Baghdad
		One of them cursed me when I tried to reclaim a book of Islamic law from a boy who could have been no more than 10 years old.
		Amid the ashes of hundreds of years of Iraqi history, I found just one file blowing in the wind outside: Pages and pages of handwritten letters between the court of Sherif Hussein of Makkah — who started the Arab revolt against the Turks for Lawrence of Arabia — and the Ottoman rulers of Baghdad.
		All over the filthy yard they blew, letters of recommendation to the courts of Arabia, demands for ammunition for Ottoman troops, reports on the theft of camels and attacks on pilgrims, all of them in delicate hand-written Arabic script.
	www.dailykos.net /archives/002383.html (1019 words)

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