Al-Ṭāʾif, city, western Saudi Arabia. Lying at an elevation of 6,a hundred sixty five ft (one,879 metres) over a tableland southeast of Mecca, it is the nation’s principal summer vacation resort. After the seat on the pagan goddess Allat, it is actually revered now as the site from the tomb of Ê¿Abd Allāh ibn Ê¿Abbās, a … Read More