A sheltered anchorage under the cliffs west of al-Shihr.
It grows into a town only later and becomes the chief port of the coast in the modern age; we found no description of a town here for 1200.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not pinned (the Al Iqbal of al-Shihr are the nearest lords)
- Title
- Not pinned
- Since
- Not pinned
- Confidence
- low
How things stand that morning
At most a fishing anchorage.
Charter
None known: southern Arabian towns had no charters; the lord or his deputy, the judge (qadi) and the notables answer for the town.
Council
Not recorded for 1199-1200.
Communities
Fishermen.
Fairs and markets
No fair dates recorded for 1199-1200.
Militia
Not recorded for 1199-1200.
Trade and crafts
Fishing; shelter for coasting ships.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: No source of the period checked mentions it.
Primary sources for Hadramawt
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.