The Kaaba is the square-shaped building in the centre of the Great Mosque in Mecca. It is towards this building (and not Mecca) that Muslims face when praying. Research Kaaba
Antar was an Arabian warrior and poet of the 6th century. He was author of one of the seven Moallakas (poems) hung up in the Kaaba at Mecca; hero of a romance analogous in Arabic literature to the Arthurian legend of the English. The romance of Antar, which has been called the Iliad of the Desert, is composed in rhythmic prose interspersed with fragments of verse, many of which are attributed to Antar himself, and has been generally ascribed to Asmai who lived between 740 and 830, preceptor to Harun-al-Rashid. Research Antar
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