Wells and a village near the shore where the pilgrims coming down the coast put on the ihram in place of deserted al-Juhfa.
The Frankish raiders sent by Reynald of Chatillon in 1182-1183 attacked shipping and coastal places on this shore before the Egyptian fleet destroyed them near al-Hawra.
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
Not pinned: between the emir of Mecca's reach and Qatada's
How things stand that morning
No lord named.
Council
not recorded
Fairs and markets
not recorded
Walls and castle
not described
Trade and crafts
Water and supplies for pilgrims.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: General accounts of the pilgrim road and of the raid of 1183.
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
- Tayma (English Wikipedia, citing Hausleiter 2010 and Leiser 1977 on the raid of 1181)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.