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Map of the Port of Saint Michael's
1 Zoom in on the map⇄It challenges · a placeThat the Prophet's tomb is in Mecca.
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The claim
The Prophet's tomb is in Medina, not Mecca, according to this map.
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It challenges · a place
That the Prophet's tomb is in Mecca.
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The picture: a walled city labelled ciutat de mecha (city of Mecca), with a gold coffin in a blue pool. A pilgrim kneels below it, and almedina (Medina) sits just above.
The text says, roughly: “Mecca. In this city is the ark [coffin] of Mafumet, prophet of the sarrayns, who come here on pilgrimage from all their lands… and having seen so precious a thing they say they are not worthy to see more, and they blind themselves out of reverence for Mafumet.”
Two errors in the map:
The panel tells you what Christian Mallorca believed in 1375, not how Mecca really was.