About Every mosque faces Mecca: a controversy at the center of Islam (Full documentary)
The Kaaba, a stone square building in the sacred city of Mecca, is the holiest site in Islam, serving as the direction of prayer (qibla) for Muslims all around the world. However, Canadian historian Dan Gibson believes that Muslims have been praying in the wrong direction for the last fifteen hundred years. The Quran commands them to pray towards the "forbidden gathering place," and according to Gibson's interpretation, archaeological and historical evidence indicates that this place is not in Mecca, Saudi Arabia – but the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00:00 – Intro ▷ 0:00:25 – A new era of research ▷ 0:02:31 – Dan Gibson ▷ 0:03:57 – Mecca ▷ 0:05:48 – Arabian history ▷ 0:11:12 – Descriptions in the Quran ▷ 0:12:50 – Early maps of Arabia ▷ 0:13:37 – Islamic records are myths ▷ 0:14:35 – Another location fits the description ▷ 0:15:53 – Representation of Gods and sacred places ▷ 0:17:57 – Masjid al-Haram, the Forbidden Gathering Place ▷ 0:20:55 – The original qibla: analysing surviving mosques ▷ 0:31:12 – Petra ▷
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