“I was quite surprised,” he writes, “to learn that it was a Jewish city, called Yathrib, long before the time of Muhammad. Could you furnish me, please, with the dates, the number of Jews in ...

The remains of Iraqi soldiers have been found at a mass grave in the town of Yathrib, about 170km north ... losses and to protect civilians in the city.” The Tikrit siege is one of the first ...

The Prophet (Peace be upon him) began his migration on that day, thereby giving the name Hijiri to the calendar, to the city of Yathrib, later renamed as Madinat Al Nabawi or the City of the Prophet.