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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Mohammed kaaba 1315.jpg|thumb|left|A 1315 illustration from the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Jami&amp;#039; al-tawarikh]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; inspired by the [[sīrah]] story of [[Muhammad]] and the [[Mecca]]n clan elders lifting the Black Stone into place.&amp;lt;ref name=uscmsa&amp;gt;{{cite web |author=University of Southern California |title=The Prophet of Islam – His Biography |access-date=3 December 2010 |url=http://msawest.net/islam/11-prophet/325-the-prophet-of-islam-his-biography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723212201/http://msawest.net/islam/11-prophet/325-the-prophet-of-islam-his-biography |archive-date=23 July 2011}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Mohammed kaaba 1315.jpg|thumb|left|A 1315 illustration from the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Jami&amp;#039; al-tawarikh]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; inspired by the [[sīrah]] story of [[Muhammad]] and the [[Mecca]]n clan elders lifting the Black Stone into place.&amp;lt;ref name=uscmsa&amp;gt;{{cite web |author=University of Southern California |title=The Prophet of Islam – His Biography |access-date=3 December 2010 |url=http://msawest.net/islam/11-prophet/325-the-prophet-of-islam-his-biography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723212201/http://msawest.net/islam/11-prophet/325-the-prophet-of-islam-his-biography |archive-date=23 July 2011}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Scientific origins ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Scientific origins ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Black Stone has never been analysed with modern scientific techniques. Its nature and origin has been much debated but it remains the subject of scientific speculation.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;M. Golia&quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiTNCgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;q=Wabar+meteorite+craters+black+stone&amp;amp;pg=PT68 |title=Meteorite: Nature and Culture |last=Golia |first=Maria |date=2015 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1780235479 |language=en |access-date=30 October 2020 |archive-date=5 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705055559/https://books.google.com/books?id=oiTNCgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;q=Wabar+meteorite+craters+black+stone&amp;amp;pg=PT68 |url-status=live }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It has been described variously as [[basalt]] stone, an [[agate]], a piece of natural [[glass]] or—most popularly—a stony [[meteorite]] or a result of a meteorite impact called [[tektite]].&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Thomsen87&quot;&amp;gt;Thomsen: „New Light on the Origin of the Holy Black Stone of the Ka&#039;ba“. 1980, S. 87.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Paul Partsch]], the curator of the [[Natural History Museum, Vienna#Imperial Natural History Museum|Austro-Hungarian imperial collection of minerals]], published the first comprehensive analysis of the Black Stone in 1857, in which he favoured a meteoritic origin for the stone.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;partsch&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last=Partsch |first=Paul Maria |title=Über den schwarzen Stein der Kaaba zu Mekka, mitgetheilt aus den hinterlassenen Schriften des wirklichen Mitgliedens |journal=Denkschriften der Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien |issue=13 |year=1857 |publisher=Erste Abtheilung |pages=1–5 |url=http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/DAKW_13_1_0001-0005.pdf |access-date=29 August 2015 |archive-date=19 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919061303/http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/DAKW_13_1_0001-0005.pdf |url-status=live }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Robert S. Dietz]] and &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/del&gt;John McHone&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/del&gt;proposed in 1974 that the Black Stone was actually an agate, judging from its physical attributes and a report by an Arab geologist that the stone contained clearly discernible diffusion banding characteristic of agates.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Burke&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Black Stone has never been analysed with modern scientific techniques. Its nature and origin has been much debated but it remains the subject of scientific speculation.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;M. Golia&quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiTNCgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;q=Wabar+meteorite+craters+black+stone&amp;amp;pg=PT68 |title=Meteorite: Nature and Culture |last=Golia |first=Maria |date=2015 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1780235479 |language=en |access-date=30 October 2020 |archive-date=5 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705055559/https://books.google.com/books?id=oiTNCgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;q=Wabar+meteorite+craters+black+stone&amp;amp;pg=PT68 |url-status=live }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It has been described variously as [[basalt]] stone, an [[agate]], a piece of natural [[glass]] or—most popularly—a stony [[meteorite]] or a result of a meteorite impact called [[tektite]].&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Thomsen87&quot;&amp;gt;Thomsen: „New Light on the Origin of the Holy Black Stone of the Ka&#039;ba“. 1980, S. 87.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Paul Partsch]], the curator of the [[Natural History Museum, Vienna#Imperial Natural History Museum|Austro-Hungarian imperial collection of minerals]], published the first comprehensive analysis of the Black Stone in 1857, in which he favoured a meteoritic origin for the stone.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;partsch&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last=Partsch |first=Paul Maria |title=Über den schwarzen Stein der Kaaba zu Mekka, mitgetheilt aus den hinterlassenen Schriften des wirklichen Mitgliedens |journal=Denkschriften der Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien |issue=13 |year=1857 |publisher=Erste Abtheilung |pages=1–5 |url=http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/DAKW_13_1_0001-0005.pdf |access-date=29 August 2015 |archive-date=19 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919061303/http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/DAKW_13_1_0001-0005.pdf |url-status=live }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Robert S. Dietz]] and John McHone proposed in 1974 that the Black Stone was actually an agate, judging from its physical attributes and a report by an Arab geologist that the stone contained clearly discernible diffusion banding characteristic of agates.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Burke&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A significant clue to its nature is provided by an account of the stone&amp;#039;s recovery in 951 CE, after it had been stolen 21 years earlier. According to a chronicler,{{Who|date=August 2024}} the stone was identified by its ability to float in water, which would rule out the Black Stone being an agate, a [[basalt]], or a [[stony-iron meteorite|stony meteorite]], though it would be compatible with it being glass or [[pumice]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;bevan&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |first1=Alex |last1=Bevan |first2=John |last2=De Laeter |title=Meteorites: A Journey Through Space and Time |pages=14–15 |publisher=UNSW Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-86840-490-5}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A significant clue to its nature is provided by an account of the stone&amp;#039;s recovery in 951 CE, after it had been stolen 21 years earlier. According to a chronicler,{{Who|date=August 2024}} the stone was identified by its ability to float in water, which would rule out the Black Stone being an agate, a [[basalt]], or a [[stony-iron meteorite|stony meteorite]], though it would be compatible with it being glass or [[pumice]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;bevan&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |first1=Alex |last1=Bevan |first2=John |last2=De Laeter |title=Meteorites: A Journey Through Space and Time |pages=14–15 |publisher=UNSW Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-86840-490-5}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/del&gt;Elsebeth Thomsen&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/del&gt;of the [[University of Copenhagen]] proposed a different hypothesis in 1980. She suggested that the Black Stone may be a glass fragment, or [[impactite]], from the impact of a fragmented meteorite that fell 6000 years ago at [[Wabar craters|Wabar]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite journal |title=New Light on the Origin of the Holy Black Stone of the Ka&#039;ba |last=Thomsen |first=E. |journal=Meteoritics |volume=15 |number=1 |page=87 |bibcode=1980Metic..15...87T |doi=10.1111/j.1945-5100.1980.tb00176.x |year=1980}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a site in the [[Rub&#039; al Khali]] desert {{convert|1100|km|mi}} east of Mecca. A 2004 scientific analysis of the Wabar site suggests that the impact event occurred much more recently than previously thought and may have happened within the last 200–300 years.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Prescott2004&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Prescott |first1=J. R. |title=Luminescence dating of the Wabar meteorite craters, Saudi Arabia |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |volume=109 |issue=E1 |year=2004 |pages=E01008 |issn=0148-0227 |doi=10.1029/2003JE002136 |bibcode=2004JGRE..109.1008P|doi-access=free }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Elsebeth Thomsen of the [[University of Copenhagen]] proposed a different hypothesis in 1980. She suggested that the Black Stone may be a glass fragment, or [[impactite]], from the impact of a fragmented meteorite that fell 6000 years ago at [[Wabar craters|Wabar]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite journal |title=New Light on the Origin of the Holy Black Stone of the Ka&#039;ba |last=Thomsen |first=E. |journal=Meteoritics |volume=15 |number=1 |page=87 |bibcode=1980Metic..15...87T |doi=10.1111/j.1945-5100.1980.tb00176.x |year=1980}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a site in the [[Rub&#039; al Khali]] desert {{convert|1100|km|mi}} east of Mecca. A 2004 scientific analysis of the Wabar site suggests that the impact event occurred much more recently than previously thought and may have happened within the last 200–300 years.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Prescott2004&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Prescott |first1=J. R. |title=Luminescence dating of the Wabar meteorite craters, Saudi Arabia |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |volume=109 |issue=E1 |year=2004 |pages=E01008 |issn=0148-0227 |doi=10.1029/2003JE002136 |bibcode=2004JGRE..109.1008P|doi-access=free }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The meteoritic hypothesis is viewed by geologists as doubtful. The [[Natural History Museum, London]] suggests that it may be a pseudometeorite; in other words, a terrestrial rock mistakenly attributed to a meteoritic origin.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |title=Catalogue of meteorites: with special reference to those represented in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London |volume=1 |page=263 |editor=Grady, Monica M. |last1=Grady |first1=Monica M. |last2=Graham |first2=A. L. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-521-66303-8}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The meteoritic hypothesis is viewed by geologists as doubtful. The [[Natural History Museum, London]] suggests that it may be a pseudometeorite; in other words, a terrestrial rock mistakenly attributed to a meteoritic origin.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |title=Catalogue of meteorites: with special reference to those represented in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London |volume=1 |page=263 |editor=Grady, Monica M. |last1=Grady |first1=Monica M. |last2=Graham |first2=A. L. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-521-66303-8}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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