From Yathrib to the Prophet's Holy City pt.1 - Dr. Harry Munt

How the oasis settlement of Yathrib in the Hijāz emerged as the Holy City of the Prophet ﷺ over the course of three Islamic centuries (7th to 9th CE) - Inspired by the 2014 release of 'The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia' by Dr. Harry Munt: Munt Dr. Munt is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York in England. And before joining the department in 2014 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. His research and teaching focuses on the history of the Islamic world, ca. 600–1500. In particular, he works on the history of the Arabian Peninsula in the early Islamic centuries, Islamic holy cities and pilgrimage, and Arabic history-writing in the medieval period: #profile-content