Places

The holiest city in Islam, birthplace of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and site of the Ka'bah.

The city of the Prophet ﷺ, originally known as Yathrib. The destination of the Hijrah.

A cave on Jabal al-Nour where the Prophet ﷺ received the first revelation.

The cave where Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Abu Bakr hid during the Hijrah.

Modern-day Ethiopia/Eritrea, where early Muslims sought refuge.

A city near Mecca where the Prophet ﷺ went to preach but was rejected.

The site of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

A small hill in Mecca near the Ka'bah.

The house of Al-Arqam ibn Abi al-Arqam.

A location in Mina where the pledges of allegiance took place.

A mountain north of Medina.

A town southwest of Medina.

The desert region where the Prophet ﷺ spent his early childhood.

A village between Mecca and Medina.

A city in Syria (Levant).

The capital of Yemen and seat of Abraha, the Abyssinian (Aksumite) viceroy. There Abraha raised a great cathedral, Al-Qullays, hoping to draw the pilgrimage of the Arabs away from…

A fertile oasis of date-palms and forts north of Madinah.

The Sassanid Empire, whose religion was Zoroastrianism, tending an ever-burning sacred fire.

The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, Christian since Constantine, with its capital at Constantinople.

The great pre-Islamic market and poetry fair held near Mecca, between Nakhlah and Taif.

A valley between Mecca and Taif, site of the Battle of Hunayn shortly after the Conquest of Mecca.

A valley beside the Sanctuary in Mecca where the Prophet ﷺ herded sheep as a youth; today the area of Ajyād, close to the Ḥaram.

A settlement on the southern outskirts of Madinah, approximately 5 km from its center. It was the territory of the Banū ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf clan of the Aws tribe. This was the first plac…

The ancient pre-Islamic name of the city that would become Madinah al-Munawwarah. Yathrib was a fertile oasis settlement in the Hijaz, home to the Aws and Khazraj Arab tribes as we…

The cube-shaped stone structure at the center of Masjid al-Ḥarām in Makkah, considered the most sacred site in Islam. Built, in its Quranic account, by Ibrāhīm and his son Ismāʿīl…

A valley approximately 5 km east of Makkah, lying between the city and the plain of ʿArafah. During the annual Hajj pilgrimage, Muslims spend the night of the 10th of Dhul Hijjah a…

An ancient coastal city in the Levant, at the junction of the trade routes connecting Arabia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean world. In the context of early Seerah, Gaza is significan…

The Mosque of the Two Qiblas, located in the area of the Banu Salama tribe in Madinah, northwest of Masjid an-Nabawi near Wadi al-Aqiq. Named for the incident in which the congrega…

A valley east of Makkah in the direction of Ṭāʾif, roughly halfway between the two cities. Site of scattered date palms, hence the name (nakhlah = date palm). In the Makkan era it…

A plain on the edge of the Ḥaram just west of Makkah, on the old road from Madinah, named for a well there. In 6 AH the Prophet ﷺ and some 1,400 Companions camped here when Quraysh…

A well in the territory of Banū al-Muṣṭaliq, southwest of Madinah toward the Red Sea coast.

A well in the Najd, in the borderlands of Banū ʿĀmir, east of Madinah.

A watering place in the Hijaz, in the land of the tribe of Hudhayl, between Makkah and ʿUsfān.

An expedition site in the Najd, in the lands of Ghaṭafān northeast of Madinah.

A coastal town on the Red Sea, northwest of Madinah.

A region of central Najd, homeland of the large tribe of Banū Ḥanīfah.

A place on the caravan route between Madinah and Syria, north of Madinah toward the coast.

A smaller Jewish agricultural settlement near Khaybar, north of Medina.

A campsite a short distance outside Mecca on the road to Medina.

A small village and plain in what was then the Roman province of Syria, between the cities of Amman and Karak in modern Jordan, known today as al-Mazar, after the tombs of the thre…

A watering place in northern Arabia, in the lands of Quḍāʿah toward the north, named after a pond called Salāsil beside which the expedition camped. The exact site is uncertain; it…

An oasis and spring (ʿAyn Tabūk) in the far north of the Ḥijāz, a stop on the old caravan route between Medina and Syria, roughly a thousand miles from Medina and a stone's throw f…

A fortified northern oasis in al-Jawf, on the routes between the Ḥijāz, Syria, and Iraq. In the Prophet's ﷺ time it was ruled by Ukaydir, a Christian Arab leader associated with Ki…

The rock-cut settlement associated in Islamic tradition with Thamūd and the people of the Prophet Ṣāliḥ. Its carved dwellings stood on the Tabūk route north of Medina.

The plain east of Mecca, outside the Ḥaram, where pilgrims stand on the ninth of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, the essential rite of Ḥajj (al-ḥajju ʿArafah). Here the Prophet ﷺ delivered the Fare…