Al-Ṭāʾif, town, western Saudi Arabia. Lying at an elevation of 6,165 ft (one,879 metres) on the tableland southeast of Mecca, it is the state’s principal summer season resort. When the seat on the pagan goddess Allat, it is actually revered now as the location from the tomb of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, a cousin from the Prophet Muḥammad, a