Taif

Taif (Arabic الطائف ) is a ceety in the Mecca Province o Saudi Arabie at an elevation o  on the slopes o the Sarawat Muntains (Al-Sarawat Muntains). It haes a population o 521,273 (2004 census). Each simmer the Saudi Govrenment muives frae the heat o Riyadh tae Taif. The ceety is the centre o an agricultural aurie kent for its grapes, roses an hinnie.

Ethnography
The indwallers o Ta'if, are lairgely made up o the Hanbali an Maliki Sunnis Saudi Arabies. Thare are an aw significant foreign populations, primarily frae Asie, Turkey, an ither Arab kintras.

Notable residents
Bani Hareth is ane o the Adnani Arabs tribes livin aroond Taif in Saudi Arabie.  The tribe is ane o the biggest tribes in the aurie an occupees the full aurie atween Taif and Al Qunfuthah in Saudi.
Bani Adwan is ane o the Adnani Arabs tribes livin oreeginally in the northren pairt o Taif, an in the soothren pairt o Jordan. Thu Al issba'a Al Adwani (in Arabic) is a figur o the tribe In the pre-islamic era, in which he's kent as a poet an a man o wisdom. Furthermair, Banu Thabet are fowk descendit frae Thabit. The tribe is oreeginally pairt o the Otaibah clan.

Chieftains
Durin the pre-Islamic era, the ceety wis populatit bi the tribe o Thaqif. The ceety haed then the follaein chieftains:
Urwah ibn Mas'ud
Abd-Ya-Layl ibn Amr
Uthman ibn Abu-al-Aas

an at least fower ithers.

Ither residents
Keeng Faisal I o Iraq
Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
Uthman bin Affan
Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi
Muhammad bin Qasim
Uthman Ibn Affan the 3rd Rashidun (Richtly Guidit Caliph) caliph born in Taif.
Midhat Pasha (1822–1884), airchitect o the first Ottoman constitution who wis strangulated in Taif.
Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily (b.1970) First Saudi Olympic medal winner.

See an aw
Banu Jadhimah
Taif Agreement
'Utaybah

References

an aw:
 Hugh Kennedy - The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
 Martin Lings - Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources
 John Lewis Burckhardt (Johann Ludwig Burckhardt) - Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Muslims regard as sacred, online version available free frae Project Gutenberg here.
 Pars Tuğlacı – Osmanlı Şehirleri
 Michael Asher - Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia
 David Holden an Richard Jones - The House of Saud

Category:Populatit places in Makkah Province