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Although this city has been known as a sacred place from thousands of years ago, but nothing is clear from its vast history except its beginning and end. According to the Holy Quran, Ibrahim (a) was the first who settled his family in this barren land. Later, groups of Amalek dominated this area. In 400 CE, due to the disruption in social and economic conditions of South Arabia, various groups of southern people migrated to other parts of the peninsula. A tribe known as Jurhum settled in Mecca and started to administer the city. Later, Khuza'a tribe dominated the area and by the beginning of sixth century, Qusayy b. Kilāb, the grand ancestor of the Prophet (s), brought the tribe of Quraysh] to Mecca who once inhabited the deserts and valleys outside it, took the administration of Mecca in hand and established Dar al-Nadwa there.