(Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in Greece) Historical image of Mecca in 1850. The Kaaba in the Grand Mosque in 1907. Bird’s-eye view of uncrowded Kaaba, Mecca in 1910. Smoke rising from the Grand Mosque ...

Born, according to tradition, around 570 in Mecca, the founder of Islam was a preacher, a prophet and a legislator, as well ...