Talk:Mecca

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In the islamic narrative part in the history section it should include this:
the ancient Iranians used to visit Mecca for a pilgrimage, they used to bring gifts with them during the pilgrimages. one of them was Sasan who was the grandfather of Ardashir. Tuffmaster (talk) 11:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 14 July 2025

Makkah isnt the birthplace of islam, its the birth palce of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Islam isnt 1400 years old. The prophet is, the Qur'an is. 103.122.91.105 (talk) 12:06, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 12:08, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

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Abd Mekkat

Quote from the history section of article:

Some Thamudic inscriptions which were discovered in southern Jordan contained names of some individuals such as ʿAbd Mekkat (عَبْد مَكَّة‎, "Servant of Mecca").

If you check the source by Harding, this is not "some" inscriptions, it is one inscription. Specifically, this one. However, you can see in the apparatus for the inscripion,

TIJ: Harding commented: "There seems to be a z [what is now read as ʾ] missing at the beginning to judge from the style of the n (cf. 100). ʿAbd-mekkat is new”. Littmann commented: "If ʿbd mkt is correct it is a very interesting name: ʿAbd Mekkat ‘servant of Mekka’ (The Holy City). But a l might be supplied: ʿAbd Malikat" Milik 1958–1959: 355: ʿbdmkt in Harding 112A [=TIJ 112.1] would be "servant of the (king) Malikat". King GMH 1990: 141, n. 11: "The text is Thamudic D and from a photograph and copy I made in 1986, I would read the text as zn ʿbd mḥ and interpret it as an unfinished love text of the form zn N1 mḥb N2."

I don't have access to King's PhD thesis, but since the database uses his transcription, I think it's clear there's a consensus it says mḥ, not mkt. (My own discretion does not aid me, because the photograph is basically unreadable). Not sure if the sentence in the article should just be removed, or if the other reading should just be appended. Mzrvtfni (talk) 06:23, 20 November 2025 (UTC)