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‖ Caaba|ˈkɑːəbə|
Also Kaaba, Kaabeh.
[Arab. kaﻋbah square (or cubical) house.]
The sacred edifice at Mecca, which contains the venerated ‘black stone’, and is the ‘Holy of Holies’ of Islam. (See quot. 1883, and a photographic view in the work cited.)
1734G. Sale Koran 16 This is the Caaba, which is usually called, by way of eminence, the House. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. l. 1798in Wellesley's Desp. 82 The illustrious Kaaba is the object of veneration to the followers of truth. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iv. i. 180 The temple of the Caaba was at once the centre of the commerce and of the religion of Arabia. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits viii. Wks. (Bohn) II. 59 Every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies. 1883Sunday at Home 11 The Káabeh..is a plain unornamented oblong of massive masonry, 38 feet by 30 square, and 40 feet high, covered with a heavy black cloth, of a fabric of mixed silk and cotton, which has a richly embroidered band worked in bullion, about two and a half feet deep, encircling it about ten feet from the top, with the Kalumna, the Moslem profession of faith, wrought in gold letters. |