Edward Gibbon believed that this was the Kaaba. However, Ian D. Morris argues that Gibbon had misread the source: Diodorus puts the temple too far north for it to have been Mecca.

In the Quran

In the Qur'an, from the era of the life of Muhammad, the Kaaba is mentioned by the following names:
*al-Bayt in 2:125 by Allah
*Bayti in 22:26 by Allah
*Baytik al-Muharram in 14:37 by Ibrahim
*al-Bayt al-Haram in 5:97 by Allah
*al-Bayt

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