Taif
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Taif (Arabic الطائف aṭ-Ṭā’if) is a ceety in the Mecca Province o Saudi Arabie at an elevation o 1,879 m (6,165 ft) on the slopes o the Sarawat Muntains (Al-Sarawat Muntains). It haes a population o 521,273 (2004 census). Each simmer the Saudi Govrenment muives frae the heat o Riyadh tae Taif. The ceety is the centre o an agricultural aurie kent for its grapes, roses an hinnie.
Ethnography
[eedit | eedit soorce]The indwallers o Ta'if, are lairgely made up o the Hanbali an Maliki Sunnis Saudi Arabies. Thare are an aw significant foreign populations, primarily frae Asie, Turkey, an ither Arab kintras.
Notable residents
[eedit | eedit soorce]Bani Hareth is ane o the Adnani Arabs tribes livin aroond Taif in Saudi Arabie. The tribe is ane o the biggest tribes in the aurie an occupees the full aurie atween Taif and Al Qunfuthah in Saudi. Bani Adwan is ane o the Adnani Arabs tribes livin oreeginally in the northren pairt o Taif, an in the soothren pairt o Jordan. Thu Al issba'a Al Adwani (in Arabic) is a figur o the tribe In the pre-islamic era, in which he's kent as a poet an a man o wisdom. Furthermair, Banu Thabet are fowk descendit frae Thabit. The tribe is oreeginally pairt o the Otaibah clan.
Chieftains
[eedit | eedit soorce]Durin the pre-Islamic era, the ceety wis populatit bi the tribe o Thaqif. The ceety haed then the follaein chieftains:
- an at least fower ithers.
Ither residents
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Keeng Faisal I o Iraq
- Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
- Uthman bin Affan
- Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi
- Muhammad bin Qasim
- Uthman Ibn Affan the 3rd Rashidun (Richtly Guidit Caliph) caliph born in Taif.
- Midhat Pasha (1822–1884), airchitect o the first Ottoman constitution who wis strangulated in Taif.
- Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily (b.1970) First Saudi Olympic medal winner.[1]
See an aw
[eedit | eedit soorce]References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Saudi Aramco World: Great Leaps: Saudi Arabia's First Olympic Medals". Archived frae the original on 2 Februar 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
an aw:
- Hugh Kennedy - The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
- Martin Lings - Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources
- John Lewis Burckhardt (Johann Ludwig Burckhardt) - Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Muslims regard as sacred, online version available free frae Project Gutenberg here.
- Pars Tuğlacı – Osmanlı Şehirleri
- Michael Asher - Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia
- David Holden an Richard Jones - The House of Saud
Coordinates: 21°16′N 40°25′E / 21.267°N 40.417°E
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