Madīna, al-
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Madīna, al-. Yathrib, ‘the town’ to which
Muḥammad made the
hijra at the invitation of its inhabitants. It is situated in the Ḥijāz, and is the place where the earliest organized forms of Islam could take root (hence the fact that the Madinan
suras of the
Qurʾān deal increasingly with practical issues of individual and social life). The so-called Constitution of Madīna gathers several different agreements drawn up with Jewish and other tribes. Muḥammad was buried in Madīna (as were
Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, and also ʿUthmān, but in a place apart), so it has been a place of
pilgrimage for Muslims.
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