Medina

Medina (/məˈdiːnə/; Arabic: المدينة المنورة‎, al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, "the radiant city"; or المدينة, al-Madīnah, "the city"), also transliterated as Madīnah, is a city in the Hejaz, and the capital of the Al Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia. The city contains al-Masjid an-Nabawi ("the Prophet's Mosque"), which is the burial place of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and is the second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca.

Medina was Muhammad's destination after his Hijrah from Mecca, and became the capital of a rapidly increasing Muslim Empire, first under Muhammad's leadership, and then under the first four Rashidun caliphs, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali. It served as the power base of Islam in its first century where the early Muslim community developed. Medina is home to the three oldest mosques, namely the Quba Mosque, al-Masjid an-Nabawi, and Masjid al-Qiblatayn ("the mosque of the two qiblas"). Muslims believe that the chronologically final surahs of the Quran were revealed to Muhammad in Medina, and are called Medinan surahs in contrast to the earlier Meccan surahs.

Madina (Bijnor)

Akhbar-e-Madina (Urdu: اخبار مدینه‎), or Madina for short, was a Urdu bi-weekly newspaper published from Bijnor, India.

The newspaper first appeared in 1912.Madina was founded by Maulvi Majeed Hasan. The first editor of the newspaper was Hamidullah Ansari. The newspaper had its own printing press, Madina Press.

Madina was one of the most prominent Muslim newspapers in the United Provinces. It won acceptance from the readers through its systematic arrangement of news items and high-quality calliography. Read across the Indian subcontinent, it played a significant role in shaping Muslim public opinion. Politically it was supportive of the Indian National Congress. It opposed the continuation of princely states, particularly the Bhopal State.

As of 1922 Madina had a circulation of 12,500, by 1927 the circulation had dropped to 6,500, by 1931 the circulation of the newspaper stood at 6,000. The newspaper was published on the 1st, 5th, 9th, 13th, 17th, 21st, 25th and 28th of each month.

Madina (disambiguation)

Madina may refer to:

Places

Media

Music

Sports

See also