A prosperous station town of the Darb Zubayda in the eighth and ninth centuries, with mosques, houses and cisterns; it was sacked by the Qarmatians in 319 AH (931) and abandoned (excavations of King Saud University).
In 1200 a ruin 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 ruin
How things stand that morning
Ruined and abandoned since the tenth century.
Council
not recorded
Fairs and markets
not recorded
Walls and castle
not described
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Excavated site with a dated end.
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
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.