Over the last 20 years, new discoveries are pointing to the founding of Islam taking place in the ancient city of Petra. Check the evidence for yourself and make your own decision.
Qibla Tool:
This tool requires a large screen to view the Qibla direction of over 200 mosques from the earliest days of Islam. Choose by mosque name, time category or by Qibla direction. Does not display well on …
Names for the city of Petra:
Research Paper by Dan Gibson and Dr. Peter Harremoës.
Book: Let the Stones Speak:
Dan Gibson’s definitive new book on early Islamic qiblas, based on over 200 archaeological sites from the first centuries of Islam. Discover why there were multiple qiblas, who created them, and why …
Rate Distortion Theory for Descriptive Statistics:
Viewers and readers my wonder why an academic paper on optimizing lossy compression of data is on a site about history and Islam. In this paper, Dr. Peter Harremoës uses Gibson’s Mosque Database …
How Accurately Could Early (622-900 C.E.) Muslims Determine the Direction of Prayers (Qibla)?:
By Walter R. Schumm You can download this paper by clicking this link: How Accurately Could Early Muslims Determine the Direction of Prayers Abstract Debate has arisen over the ability of Muslim …