Muhammad returns to Mecca with a large army and takes the city nearly without bloodshed, declares a general amnesty, and clears the Kaaba of its idols; Mecca becomes the sanctuary center of Islam.
Tagged: Ibadi Islam Muslim Sunni Islam Twelver Shia Islam
The Event
- Date
- 630 (exact)
- Era
- Prophetic; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Mecca; today Mecca, Saudi Arabia
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sunni Islam, Twelver Shia Islam, Ibadi Islam
- Key figures
- Muhammad
- Key texts
- Qur'an 48
Primary Sources
- Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah
Secondary Sources
- Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (Routledge, 3rd ed. 2016)
- Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (Faber, 1991)
Provenance: HIST-0205; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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