Al-???if, city, western Saudi Arabia. Lying at an elevation of six,165 ft (1,879 metres) over a tableland southeast of Mecca, it's the nation’s principal summer season resort. Once the seat with the pagan goddess Allat, it is revered now as the location in the tomb of ?Abd All?h ibn ?Abb?s, a cousin of your Prophet Mu?ammad, and with the graves o