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Published in 2017, this book introduced archeological evidence that demonstrated that early Islamic mosques were not erroneously oriented as previously thought. Using modern technology and satellite imaging, Canadian historian Dan Gibson has discovered that early Islamic mosques were oriented to four different places. And they are not where Islam expects them to be.

For the first time in history Dan Gibson has undertaken a comprehensive survey of Islamic mosques from the first two centuries of Islam. Using this data, Gibson demonstrates that Muhammad and the first four caliphs all prayed towards a different place! This location was also the focus of their pilgrimage. Gibson believes that Muslims are disobeying their prophet by focusing their prayers on a Black Stone in Saudi Arabia, when the Quran commands them to face the original location.

This book contains all of the data behind the documentary film The Sacred City. Viewers of this film can now check the background data for themselves and investigate further arguments that were not included in the film. Complete with hundreds of images, charts, maps and footnotes, this volume clearly challenges traditionally held Islamic history.

In 2020 this book went out of print, and will be replaced by a new book by Gibson. Some early sample chapters of the new book are being posted here.

Early Islamic Qiblas

Hardcover: 308 pages

Publisher: Independent Scholar’s Press (May 31, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1927581222

ISBN-13: 978-1927581223

Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.9 x 11 inches