Al Masjid-e-Nabawi

This guide to Al Masjid-e-Nabawi in Medina opens with a Persian newcomer named Salman standing up in a war council to suggest a tactic no Arab army had used, as ten thousand fighters from Mecca marched on a city with no walls. It reaches back five years to Muhammad's arrival in Medina after fleeing Mecca, and how he and his companions raised the original mosque themselves from palm trunks and mud brick, its walls barely taller than a man on a camel. You'll hear how that plain structure doubled as courtroom and war room, and follow the debate over Salman's unfamiliar idea. Listen for how a mosque built by hand became the center of a city under siege.