ملخص الدراسة:

The current paper aims at studying the Quranic verses in which the qualities and names of the holy city, namely, Mecca are mentioned. The study crystallized after pondering on the verses that mention the names of Mecca explicitly or mention some qualities of it. The study falls into two main parts: the first part concerns with the explicit names like: Mecca, Becca, Ka'ba, Al-Balad, Al-Bait, Um-u-l-Qura ……etc. As for the second part, it concerns with the most recurrent qualities of the holy city, i.e. Mecca. Sometimes, these qualities may be in combination with the explicit names, others may be qualities alone. This isolation may be satisfying, because these qualities like proper names confined only to Mecca and not applied to other cities. Some of these qualities are mentioned once and others are mentioned twice or thrice with different forms from the same root. We have selected the name Mecca rather than others as a title for our paper because it is the most famous name. We have analyzed the names and qualities linguistically and semantically in addition to giving a Quranic statistics for each one.