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'Abdul-'Aziz bin 'Abdul-RahmanAl Saud, the founding
king of modern Saudi Arabia, established the modern library over the site of Muhammad's birth.[1]
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ISBN978-1-8739-9210-4.
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abHīlah, Muḥammad Al-Ḥabīb (1994-12-31). Fahras Makhṭūṭāt Maktabat Makkah al-Mukarramah [Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of Makkah Al-Mukarramah] (in Arabic) (2 ed.). Mecca, Saudi Arabia: Muʾassasat al-Furqān lil-Turāth al-Islāmī (Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation), Markaz Dirasat Maqasid Al-Shariah Al-Islamiyah.
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Abraham. Here it stands for the straight path (al-
dīn al-
ḥanīf) toward which
Abraham and other messengers called the people [...] The
Qurʿān asserts that this was the path or practice followed by Abraham [...] In the final analysis, dīn encompasses social and spiritual, as well the legal and political behaviour of the believers as a comprehensive way of life, a connotation wider than the word "religion."
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