Baqīʿ al-Gharqad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Baqīʿ al-Gharqad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ende, Werner

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060921
Doc. NO	:	ALei1318
Main Entry	:	Ende, Werner
Title & Author	:	Baqīʿ al-Gharqad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ende, Werner
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,079 words)
Abstract	:	Baqīʿ al-Gharqad is the principal cemetery of Medina, the oldest and historically most important Islamic graveyard. The word baqīʿ originally denoted a area covered with trees and scrub, and gharqad is the box-thorn (genus Lycium) . Though there are, in the cemetery of al-Maʿlā, in Mecca, tombs (such as that of Khadīja) ascribed to Muslims who died before the hijra , the cemetery of Medina is the first exclusively Muslim burial-ground. According to Islamic tradition, the prophet Muḥammad himself selected its location. His reported words and deeds in
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1318.pdf