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The siege of Mecca : the forgotten uprising in Islam's holiest shrine and the birth of al Qaeda
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ISBN: 9780385519250 0385519257 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Doubleday,

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On November 20, 1979, the first morning of a new Muslim century, hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. These men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times. They believed that the Saudi royal family had become a craven servant of American infidels, and sought a return to the glory of uncompromising Islam. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, the bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the U.S. and causing hundreds of deaths. The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos, who prepared the final assault. The Saudi royal family ultimately compromised with the rebels' supporters, helping to set free the forces that produced the attacks of 9/11 and the harrowing circumstances that surround us today.--From publisher description. On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning& the first of a new Muslim century& hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times. Led by a Saudi preacher named Juhayman al Uteybi, they believed that the Saudi royal family had become a craven servant of American infidels, and sought a return to the glory of uncompromising Islam. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, Mecca's bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the United States and causing hundreds of deaths. Despite U.S. assistance, the Saudi royal family proved haplessly incapable of dislodging the occupier, whose ranks included American converts to Islam. In Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini blamed the Great Satan& the United States & for defiling the shrine, prompting mobs to storm and torch American embassies in Pakistan and Libya. The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos led by tough-as-nails Captain Paul Barril, who prepared the final assault and supplied poison gas that knocked out the insurgents. Though most captured gunmen were quickly beheaded, the Saudi royal family responded to this unprecedented challenge by compromising with the rebels' supporters among the kingdom's most senior clerics, helping them nurture and export Juhayman's violent brand of Islam around the world. This dramatic and immensely consequential story was barely covered in the press in the pre-CNN, pre& Al Jazeera days, as Saudi Arabia imposed an information blackout and kept foreign correspondents away. Yaroslav Trofimov now penetrates this veil of silence, interviewing for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, including former


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Shifāʼ al-gharām bi-akhbār al-Balad al-ḥarām
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ISBN: 9782745130389 2745130382 Year: 2000 Publisher: Bayrūt, Lubnān : Manshūrāt Muḥammad ʻAlī Bayḍūn, Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah,

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Itḥāf al-wará bi-akhbār Umm al-Qurá
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ISBN: 9775050030 Year: 1983 Publisher: Makkah : al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah, Jāmiʻat Umm al-Qurá, Markaz al-Baḥth al-ʻIlmī wa-Iḥyāʼ al-Turāth al-Islāmī, Kullīyat al-Sharīʻah wa-al-Dirāsāt al-Islāmīyah,

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Het Mekkaansche feest
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ISBN: 9004600167 9004570594 Year: 1880 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The Ka'ba orientations : readings in Islam's ancient house
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ISBN: 9780748699308 9780748699315 0748699317 9781474484695 1474484697 0748699309 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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The most sacred site of Islam, the Ka'ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects.

Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land
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ISBN: 069103267X 0691600848 0691654158 1400887364 Year: 1994 Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Muʻjam al-shuyūkh
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Year: 1982 Publisher: al-Riyāḍ : Manshūrāt Dār al-Yamāmah lil-Baḥth wa-al-Tarjamah wa-al-Nashr,

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Bināʼ al-Kaʻbah al-Bayt al-Ḥarām : risālah fī tārīkh al-Kaʻbah al-musharrafah min bidāyat bināʼihā ḥattá bināyat al-Ḥajjāj
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Bayrūt : Dār al-Bashāʼir al-Islāmīyah,

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Bedouin village : a study of a Saudi Arabian people in transition
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ISBN: 0860081761 Year: 1977 Publisher: Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press,

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The Ka'ba orientations : readings in Islam's ancient house
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ISBN: 0748699317 1474484697 0748699309 Year: 2020 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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