Kaaban.
/ˈkɑːəbə/ 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.)
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1734 G. Sale in tr. Koran ii. 16 (note) This is the Caaba, which is usually called, by way of eminence, the House.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall l.
1798 N. B. Edmonstone tr. Tipu Sultan in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 82 The illustrious Kaaba is the object of veneration to the followers of truth.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. i. 17 The temple of the Caaba was at once..the centre of the commerce and of the religion of Arabia.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 135 Every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies.
1883 Sunday 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.
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