Timeline of Mecca
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Prior to 20th century
20th century
- 1908 / 1325-1326 H
- 1912 - Madrasat al-Falah established.[11]
- 1916 / 1334-1335 H
- 1921 - Population: 80,000 (approximate estimate).[12]
- 1924 / 1342-1343 H
- 1925 - City becomes part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.[4]
- 1926 - Al Adl cemetery and al-Mahad al-Ilmi Suudi (school)[11] established.
- 1929 - Amanat al-Asima (municipality) established.[11]
- 1931 / 1349-1350 H - Public library founded (approximate date).[11]
- 1932 - Dar al-Hadith (school) established.[11]
- 1930s - Aziziyya, Faysaliyya, Khayriyya, and Suudiyya schools established (approximate date).[11]
- 1938 - Maktabat al-Haram (library) active.[11]
- 1945 - Al-Wehda Club (sport club) formed.
- 1949 / 1368-1369 H - Kulliyyat al-Sharia (college) established.[11]
- 1951 - College of Education established.[11]
- 1958 - Al Nadwa newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 1960 - Police academy established.[11]
- 1962 - Slavery abolished.[11]
- 1964 / 1383-1384 H
- 1966 - Mahad al-Nur (school) established.[11]
- 1972 - Hajj televised.[15]
- 1973 - "Master Plan for the Holy City of Mecca" launched.[1]
- 1975 - Fire in Mina.[1]
- 1979 - 20 November-4 December: Grand Mosque seizure.[16]
- 1981 - Umm al-Qura University established.[11]
- 1986 - King Abdul Aziz Stadium opens.
- 1987 - 31 July: 1987 Mecca incident.
- 1992 - Population: 965,697.[14]
- 1997 - 16 April: Mecca fire of 1997.
21st century
See also
- Other cities in Saudi Arabia
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Ziauddin Sardar (2014). "Chronology". Mecca: The Sacred City. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-62040-266-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 John L. Esposito (2003). "Chronology of Key Events". Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-975726-8.
- ↑ Cyril Glassé, ed. (2003). New Encyclopedia of Islam. USA: AltaMira Press. ISBN 978-0-7591-0190-6.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Pam Hollister (1996). "Mecca". In Noelle Watson. International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 483–486. ISBN 1884964036.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Mecca", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Marina A. Tolmacheva (2000). "Mecca". In John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg. Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 387+. ISBN 978-1-135-59094-9.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Gabor Agoston; Bruce Alan Masters (2009). "Mecca". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
- ↑ Saudi Arabia: Mecca, ArchNet, archived from the original on September 2008
- ↑ "Saudi Arabia". Political Chronology of the Middle East. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-135-35673-6.
- ↑ "Turkey". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 11.15 11.16 11.17 C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Mecca". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
- ↑ "Arabia: Kingdom of Hejaz". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- ↑ "Again Holy Mecca Resounds to Arms; City of the Prophet Yields for Second Time in a Century to the Wahabis", New York Times, 2 November 1924
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Saudi Arabia". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
- ↑ Marwan M. Kraidy; Joe F. Khalil (2009). "Chronology". Arab Television Industries. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 153+. ISBN 978-1-84457-576-3.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 BBC News. "Saudi Arabia Profile: Timeline". Retrieved April 2015.
- ↑ "Price of Progress: Transforming Islam’s Holiest Site", New York Times, 8 March 2007
Further reading
- Published in the 18th-19th century
- Carsten Niebuhr (1792). "Of the City of Mecca". Travels through Arabia. Translated by Robert Heron. Edinburgh: R. Morison and Son – via Hathi Trust.
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Mecca", The Cyclopædia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mecca", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1829). "(Mekka)". Travels in Arabia. London: H. Colburn.
- Josiah Conder (1830), "Mekka", Arabia, The Modern Traveller 4, London: J.Duncan
- Richard Francis Burton (1855). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah. 2 1. Tylston and Edwards. , v.2
- "Mecca". American Cyclopedia. D. Appleton & Company. 1879.
- Edward Balfour (1885), "Mecca", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1888). Mekka (in German). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
- Published in the 20th century
- Published in the 21st century
- Stefano Bianca (2000), "Case Study 1: The Holy Cities of Islam – The Impact of Mass Transportation and Rapid Urban Change", Urban Form in the Arab World, Zurich: ETH Zurich, ISBN 3728119725, 0500282056
- Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Mecca". Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
- Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Makkah", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO
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