The history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia presented and extended even before the establishment of the Kingdom in its modern form about 100 years ago, as the cultural and cultural heritage vary to several ancient civilizations and various cultures, but one of the most important things distinguishes the Kingdom throughout its history is its embrace of one of the oldest cultural gatherings in Arab history on The launch is the Okaz market.
The beginning of the Okaz market dates back to the first time to the year 500 AD when the Quraysh tribe, which is one of the most famous and largest Arab tribes at that time and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, belongs to it, in a market contract where the Arabs can gather for trade and exchange goods and choose a site between the cities of Makkah Al -Mukarramah and Taif The two famous people were called “Al -Uthadeh”, and the market started when the pilgrims arrived in Mecca and lasted for four months and took wide fame throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
And he called Okaz for the Arab meeting in it every year, so each other will be exhausted with pride and chanting: that is, he will be blessed and blessed, and so and so his opponent preaches to the rivalry, that is, it is it, and Al -Layth bin Al -Mudhafar Al -Kanani said: “ The imprisonment, the jam, the fight, the oppression, the pride, the invitation, the massage, the argument, the pronounced, the meeting, the congestion, and the prevention of all the purposes of Okaz and its facts.
The name of the Okaz market comes, where the Arabs were in the past in the pre -Islamic era evaluating three large markets, which are like commercial, social and cultural gatherings, and were held in different places of the Arabian Peninsula in a periodic manner, and the Arabs come from all over and they trade and hear sermons and speeches, and they boast about them As they used to appeal to poetry and tried their creators to their elders, such as the Dhul -Dhobieh, who was hitting a red dome for him and ruled between poets, and his word was the comma, and the poems that possess the admiration of these arbitrators fly throughout the island and transmitted by the Arabs everywhere.
The ages continued and the Okaz market contract stopped for more than 1300 years, but the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia re -revived it again during the reign of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 1428 AH, until it became one of the most famous tourist attractions in the country.
Okaz market attracts large numbers of visitors from all over the Kingdom and the world, which has become a civilized forum that brings together writers, merchants and poets from all over, where many cultural seminars and poetry and literary evenings are organized, in addition to many literary competitions and events at the level of the Arab world..
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