Editing Mecca (section)

===Other names===
Another name used for Mecca in the Quran is at 6:92 where it is called {{transliteration|ar|Umm al-Qurā}}<ref>{{qref|6|92|b=y}}</ref> ({{lang|ar|{{Script|Arab|أُمّ ٱلْقُرَى}}}}, meaning "Mother of all Settlements").<ref name="Hittip6" /> The city has been called several other names in both the Quran and {{transliteration|ar|[[Hadith|ahadith]]}}. Another name used historically for Mecca is {{transliteration|ar|[[Tihamah|Tihāmah]]}}.<ref>AlSahib, AlMuheet fi Allughah, p. 303</ref> According to an Islamic suggestion, another name for Mecca, {{transliteration|ar|Fārān}}, is synonymous with the [[Desert of Paran]] mentioned in the [[Old Testament]] at [[Vayeira|Genesis 21]]:21.<ref name="Khanp74">{{cite book|author=Sayyid Aḥmad Khān|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeoOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA75|title=A series of essays on the life of Muhammad: and subjects subsidiary thereto|publisher=Trübner & co.|year=1870|location=London|pages=74–76}}</ref> Arab and Islamic tradition holds that the wilderness of Paran, broadly speaking, is the [[Tihamah|Tihamah coastal plain]] and the site where Ishmael settled was Mecca.<ref name="Khanp74" /> [[Yaqut al-Hamawi]], the 12th-century Syrian geographer, wrote that {{transliteration|ar|Fārān}} was "an arabized Hebrew word, one of the names of Mecca mentioned in the Torah."<ref name="Firestonep65">{{cite book|author=Firestone, Reuven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O69zjVnjL10C&pg=PA205|title=Title Journeys in holy lands: the evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael legends in Islamic exegesis|publisher=SUNY Press|year=1990|isbn=978-0-7914-0331-0|pages=65, 205}}</ref>