Answer Bakka

Submitted by Comprendrelecoran (Germany), Aug 5, 2020 at 16:36

What Tabari writes, I blow my a**

SEEING ISLAM AS OTHERS SAW IT by ROBERT G. HOYLAND, page 622, about The Byzantine-Arab Chronicle of 741

'Abd ai-Malik achieved the apex of royal power and ruled for 20 years. In the first year of his reign, applying all his experience and the courage of his mind against 'Abd Allah, whom his father had attacked many times in various battles, [he came] finally to Mecca, the home of Abraham as they think, which lies between Ur of
the Chaldees and the city of f:larran (Carras) in the desert.

So, in 741, the place of Mekka was unknown. Bakka means Jerusalem

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