A port of the tenth to thirteenth centuries on the coast south of al-Lith, known from its ruins and many dated Islamic tombstones; it handled the Tihama and Red Sea trade between Yemen and Jeddah.
Its ruler in 1200 is not recorded.
Who holds it
- Title
- not known
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not pinned
- Family
- not pinned
- Confidence
- low
No holder named in the sources read.
How things stand that morning
An active small port; no lord named.
Council
not recorded
Fairs and markets
not recorded
Walls and castle
not described
Trade and crafts
Coastal shipping, grain and goods of the Tihama.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Archaeological evidence; the position is approximate.
On the map: Position approximate (about 40 km south of al-Lith).
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.