Taif

Taif (Arabic الطائف aṭ-Ṭā’if) is a ceety in the Mecca Province o Saudi Arabie at an elevation o 1,879 m (6,165 ft) on the slopes o the Sarawat Muntains (Al-Sarawat Muntains). It haes a population o 521,273 (2004 census). Each simmer the Saudi Govrenment muives frae the heat o Riyadh tae Taif. The ceety is the centre o an agricultural aurie kent for its grapes, roses an hinnie.

A mosque in Taif

Taif is in the mid-soothwast o the kintra near tae Mecca

Ethnography

The indwallers o Ta'if, are lairgely made up o the Hanbali an Maliki Sunnis Saudi Arabies. Thare are an aw significant foreign populations, primarily frae Asie, Turkey, an ither Arab kintras.

Notable residents

Bani Hareth is ane o the Adnani Arabs tribes livin aroond Taif in Saudi Arabie. The tribe is ane o the biggest tribes in the aurie an occupees the full aurie atween Taif and Al Qunfuthah in Saudi. Bani Adwan is ane o the Adnani Arabs tribes livin oreeginally in the northren pairt o Taif, an in the soothren pairt o Jordan. Thu Al issba'a Al Adwani (in Arabic) is a figur o the tribe In the pre-islamic era, in which he's kent as a poet an a man o wisdom. Furthermair, Banu Thabet are fowk descendit frae Thabit. The tribe is oreeginally pairt o the Otaibah clan.

Chieftains

Durin the pre-Islamic era, the ceety wis populatit bi the tribe o Thaqif. The ceety haed then the follaein chieftains:

• Urwah ibn Mas'ud
• Abd-Ya-Layl ibn Amr
• Uthman ibn Abu-al-Aas

an at least fower ithers.

Ither residents

• Keeng Faisal I o Iraq
• Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
• Uthman bin Affan
• Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi
• Muhammad bin Qasim
• Uthman Ibn Affan the 3rd Rashidun (Richtly Guidit Caliph) caliph born in Taif.
• Midhat Pasha (1822–1884), airchitect o the first Ottoman constitution who wis strangulated in Taif.
• Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily (b.1970) First Saudi Olympic medal winner.

See an aw

• Banu Jadhimah
• Taif Agreement
• 'Utaybah

References

an aw:

• Hugh Kennedy - The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
• Martin Lings - Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources
• John Lewis Burckhardt (Johann Ludwig Burckhardt) - Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Muslims regard as sacred, online version available free frae Project Gutenberg here.
• Pars Tuğlacı – Osmanlı Şehirleri
• Michael Asher - Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia
• David Holden an Richard Jones - The House of Saud

The contents o this airticle incorporate material frae an entry in the Enciclopedia Libre Universal, published in Spaingie unner GFDL.