Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Juan Eduardo Campo, The Other Sides 

of Paradise: Explorations into the Religious Meanings of 

Domestic Space in Islam (Columbia: University of South 

Carolina Press, 1991); G. R. Hawting, “The Origins of 

the Muslim Sanctuary in Mecca.” In Studies in the First 

Century of Islamic Society, edited by G. H. A. Juynboll, 

23–47 (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois 

University Press, 1982); F. E. Peters, The Hajj: The Mus-

lim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places (Princeton, 

N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), 3–19; Ahmad 

ibn Muhammad al-Thalabi, Arais al-majalis fi qisas al-

anbiya, or “Lives of the Prophets.” Translated by William 

M. Brinner (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002), 145–154.