Editing Mecca (section)

====Thamudic inscriptions====
Some [[Thamudic]] inscriptions which were discovered in southern [[Jordan]] contained names of some individuals such as ''ʿAbd Mekkat'' ({{lang|ar|{{Script|Arab|عَبْد مَكَّة}}}}, "Servant of Mecca").<ref>G. Lankester Harding & Enno Littman, Some Thamudic Inscriptions from the Hashimite Kingdom of the Jordan (Leiden, Netherlands – 1952), p. 19, Inscription No. 112A</ref>

Some related inscriptions contained personal names such as ''Makki'' ({{lang|ar|مَكِّي}}, "Makkan, of Makkah"), but Jawwad Ali from the [[University of Baghdad]] suggested that there's also a probability of a tribe named "Makkah".<ref>Jawwad Ali, The Detailed History of Arabs before Islam (1993), Vol. 4, p. 11</ref>