Khaybar

"Khaybar, an oasis some 95 miles to the north of Medina. Whereas Mecca is famous for its barrenness, pre-Islamic Medina (Yathrib) probably looked somewhat like this. Khaybar, which was inhabited by Jews before the rise of Islam, fell to Muhammad in 628."
Khaybar

Photos and captions are from The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World, edited by Francis Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

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