After consulting senior scholars, 'Abdul-'Aziz bin 'Abdul-RahmanAl Saud, the founding king of modern Saudi Arabia, established the modern library over the site of Muhammad's birth.[1]
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^Al-A'zami, Muhammad Mustafa (2003). The History of The Qur'anic Text: From Revelation to Compilation: A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments. UK Islamic Academy. pp. 22–24. ISBN978-1-8725-3165-6.
^Anis Ahmad (2009). "Dīn". In Esposito, John L. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. Oxford, England, the U.K.: Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. A second important aspect of the meaning of the term emerges in Meccan revelations concerning the practice of the Prophet Abraham. Here it stands for the straight path (al-dīn al-ḥanīf) toward which Abraham and other messengers called the people [...] The Qurʿān asserts that this was the path or practice followed by Abraham [...] In the final analysis, dīn encompasses social and spiritual, as well the legal and political behaviour of the believers as a comprehensive way of life, a connotation wider than the word "religion."
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