Hi

This is a flyover depicting the life of the prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad.

Islam is the second largest religion in the world; Prophet Muhammad who was born in a town in the Arabian Peninsula, Mecca. He lived for 63 years (570-633 AD). During his lifetime, he founded the third monotheistic religion, established the core of the Muslim empire, and started a new era in Human history with its own distinctive civilization that is still alive today.

Fortunately, and unlike most other prophets of ancient times, the life of Prophet Muhammad is very well documented in great detail. It also encompasses a huge geographical area and most of the places where the prophet lived or visited are well known up to our very day. Thus I thought it is worth being illustrated on Google Earth.

This flyover contains around 110 place marks marking the geographical places where the main events of the Prophet's life happened. For those without prior knowledge of the life of Prophet Muhammad, the story told in this flyover gives a summarized and quick introduction to the life of one of the persons who had great influence on the course of humanity. For whose familiar with the life of the Prophet, this flyover gives them a new look at the life of the prophet in its geographical context.

This is a huge task that I embarked on. More additions are needed. I have put the main 110 pacemakers; however, I estimate that we can locate up to 1000 places directly connected to the life of the Prophet.

Want to help improve this project? Are you familiar with the terrain in Saudi Arabia or have a good knowledge of the life of the Prophet, You can do the following:

1.Give feedback regarding the places in this flyover correcting any misplaced place mark.

2.Correct any factual errors in the story told in the place marks content.

3.Help locate new places connected to the life of the prophet.

Your contribution is appreciated. Let�s work on this project and expand it with all the places related to the life of Prophet Muhammad. I hope this flyover will be a great educational tool and an opportunity of understanding.

For those wanting to contribute who know Arabic, There is a great website that contains all the major books on the life of the prophet including �Sirat Ibn Hisham�, and a list of all the geographical places that we intend to include in this project. It is a great start. Here is the site A great source for Arabic speakers

For English speaking persons, I will recommend the wikipedia article on Muhammad. The article gives a simple introduction. If you want more comprehensive resources, see the external links in the bottom of the article. Wikipedia Article on Prophet Muhammad

Thank you

Thameen

Technical notes:

.In dealing with sensitive issues in the life of the Prophet which are religiously or politically charged, neutral language was used as much as possible.

.The geographical locations and the narrative were based mainly on the book �Sirat Ibn Hisham� which is the most credible book on the life of the Prophet.




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Thank you Thameen.

This is very informative and very interesting

Peace

Hi Ben

How are you and how is your bong doing?

I noticed that there have been some posts regarding the biblical places in the Levant, so I thought it will be cool to add some placemarks regarding the life of the prophet of Islam too.

The problem is that it is very difficult to locate places in Saudi Arabia. It is huge and vast and not much good maps available online to rely on.

However, I think making a flyover for the life of Muhammad is much interesting than any other religious personality, because the life of Muhamad is very much documented.

I imagine that if this flyover be completed, we can have like 1000 places where the Prophet lived or passed by. But it needs lots of effort. i can not do it all myself.

Regards

Thameen

Great job. I have been reading the placemarks since the time you've posted and enjoying as I read more.

Thanks

Are the question marks for that you are not sure on the exact place, or for something else?

Also, I have a critic. The story goes so fluent but there is a somewhat break between the arrival to Medinah and afterwards. There is no explanatory info why they started to deal with the caravans and camels. It maybe misunderstood or misjudged by those who dont know the cases.

Hi tekgergedan

Yes the question marks are for places I located using maps but not sure if they very accurate.

I agree withh you that the "story telling" part is poor. It was really hard to do this flyover and it consumed lots of time so I got sometimes bored or lost.

Thanks for the feed back, I will update the flyover with better and more coherent narrative.

Thanks loads

Thameen

salam,

i was checking on the muth'a checkmark and i believe you made a mistake when you stated that there was no fighting. There was actual fighting , actually it lasted several days 3 important leaders of the islamic army died and one of them was the prophet's cousin himself. For more information go to islam.com and be sure to correct that post
thanks a lot!
yamina

The area you've palcemarked as the site of the battle is incorrect.
this area is known as Jurf, and is not the site of the battle. Instead teh battle is about 24'28'34.89 N 39'35'55.14E

Thanks for the feedback, but what battle you mean? there are many battles in the post

Thameen

Thanks for the feedback

Yes I made an obvious mistake, will change it for sure

Thameen

Mu'tta place mark corrected

Thameen