Dawud's line

Who he is

Name

not known by name for 1200; Dawud ibn Isa's son Ahmad is known only from a gravestone seen by al-Fasi

Title

Sharifs of the Hawashim, kin of the emir

Since

Dawud retired to Nakhla after his deposition in 587 (1191-1192) and died there in 589 (1193)

Born

not pinned

Family

The line of Dawud ibn Isa ibn Fulayta, Mukthir's brother and rival.

Confidence

low

Wikipedia, Da'ud ibn Isa (al-Dhahabi; Najm Ibn Fahd).

Overlord

The emir Mukthir.

What it holds

• estates and palms in Wadi Nakhla (not pinned in detail)

How it was acquired

Family estates of the Hawashim.

Allies and rivals

Rival line to Mukthir's; could side with any challenger.

How things stand that morning

Present at Nakhla; no action recorded.

Wealth

Dates and springs of the valley.

Military

Household men only.

Threats

• Qatada's rise ends the Hawashim's rule within a few years

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Only Dawud's retirement and death at Nakhla and one son's gravestone are recorded.

On the map: Not drawn separately: Nakhla is drawn with Mukthir's lands.

Primary sources for Mecca

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Mirror of Time, on the History of Notables, Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (Shams al-Din Yusuf) (about 1240 to 1256, at Damascus). A Damascene preacher's year-by-year chronicle with obituaries, written by a grandson of the Baghdad scholar Ibn al-Jawzi, so it carries both the Baghdad view (the caliph al-Nasir and his court) and the Damascus view (al-Adil's court, the famine refugees of 1200, prices, the plague of 1201). Read online
• The Road to Knowledge of the Dynasties of Kings, Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi (about 1400 to 1440, at Cairo). A late compilation, but for Ayyubid Egypt it keeps lost material: for 596 to 598 AH it records al-Adil's entry into Cairo, the removal of the boy al-Mansur Muhammad, the oath to al-Kamil as heir, the appointments at Cairo, the low Niles of 1199 and 1200 and the famine and plague of 1200 to 1202 with grain prices, the reports of cannibalism and the death tolls, together with Yemen, the Hijaz and the Mecca emirate. Read online
• History of the Observant Traveller (A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia), Ibn al-Mujawir (Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Ya'qub) (about 1226 to 1232). A merchant-traveller's description of western and southern Arabia a generation after 1200: Mecca and the Hijaz ports, the Red Sea crossing, Zabid and the Tihama, Aden with its customs and tariffs, the Hadramawt coast, Dhofar and Oman, Socotra, and the opposite African shore at Zeila and the Dahlak islands. Read online
• The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Jubayr (Abu'l-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad) (1185, from a diary kept 1183 to 1185). The best eyewitness of the Mediterranean world fifteen years before 1200, by a secretary of the Almohad governor of Granada: the Almohad port of Ceuta and its Genoese ships, Alexandria and Cairo under Saladin with their customs houses, the pilgrim traffic from the Maghreb, Mecca under its emir and Medina, Baghdad under the caliph al-Nasir, Damascus and Mosul, the Frankish ports of Acre and Tyre with Muslims living under Frankish rule, and Sicily under William II with its Muslim subjects and Arabic-speaking court. Read online
• Dictionary of Countries, Yaqut al-Hamawi (1224 to 1228, at Aleppo). An alphabetical gazetteer of every place Yaqut had read of or seen: he travelled as a bookseller's agent through Syria, Iraq, Persia, Khurasan and Khwarazm (about 1213 to 1220) and settled in Aleppo. Read online