TAIF FOR DUMMIES

Al-Ṭāʾif, town, western Saudi Arabia. Lying at an elevation of six,165 feet (1,879 metres) on the tableland southeast of Mecca, it is the nation’s principal summer vacation resort. When the seat of the pagan goddess Allat, it can be revered now as the website in the tomb of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, a cousin in the Prophet Muḥammad, and fo