Kiblah

We were in a demonstration about an hour's drive south of Baghdad in a city called Kiblah (ph).

CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2003 2003

"Kiblah" = the fronting-place of prayer, Meccah for

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Here, with his back to the people and fronting the Ka'abah or Square House of Meccah (hence called the "Kiblah" = direction of prayer), stations himself the Imám, artistes or fugleman, lit. "one who stands before others;" and his bows and prostrations give the time to the congregation.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

“Kiblah” = the fronting-place of prayer, Meccah for

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Every old Egyptian city had its idols (images of metal, stone or wood), in which the Deity became incarnate as in the Catholic host; besides its own symbolic animal used as a Kiblah or prayer-direction (Jerusalem or Meccah), the visible means of fixing and concentrating the thoughts of the vulgar, like the crystal of the hypnotist or the disk of the electro-biologist.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The Islamic religion prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the Kiblah — the direction of prayer — when they visit the lav.

British People: Mugs 2007

The Islamic religion prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the Kiblah — the direction of prayer — when they visit the lav.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Kiblah, or fronting place, Moslems pray all around it; a circumstance which of course cannot take place in any spot of

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

And with one look at a certain little Star in the north, under which lies all that makes life worth living through-surely it is a venial superstition to sleep with your eyes towards that Kiblah! — you fall into oblivion.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Thanks be to God! we were now at length to gaze upon the “Kiblah,” to which every

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003