Samira

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

Used by the Iraqi caravan.

Council

not recorded

Fairs and markets

not recorded

Walls and castle

not described

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Position approximate.

On the map: Position approximate.

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