Once the station where pilgrims from Syria and Egypt put on the pilgrim's garb (ihram); by the twelfth century the place was deserted and pilgrims took the ihram at nearby Rabigh instead.
A ruin field and a mosque by the road.
Who holds it
- Title
- not known
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not pinned
- Family
- not pinned
- Confidence
- low
No holder named in the sources read.
Lord in 1200
None: a deserted site on the road
How things stand that morning
Deserted; the road passes.
Council
not recorded
Communities
None settled; Bedouin pass.
Fairs and markets
not recorded
Walls and castle
not described
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Geographical tradition; the move of the ihram to Rabigh is the usual account.
Primary sources for The Bedouin
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.
- 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
Sources and studies
- Ibn Jubayr, Rihla (travels of 1183-1185), trans. R. J. C. Broadhurst, The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (1952); Arabic text ed. Wright and de Goeje (1907) on archive.org
- al-Hamdani, Sifat Jazirat al-Arab (tenth century), the standard description of the tribes and places of the Sarat, Najd and the Hejaz, as used in the Wikipedia tribal articles cited here
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.