A spring with palms and a small fort on the road from Syria and Transjordan to the Hejaz, remembered for the Prophet's expedition of 630.
Reynald of Chatillon's raid of 1181 struck the caravan routes between Tabuk and Tayma. In 1200 a halt in the Bedouin country south of Ayyubid Aila and Transjordan, with no lord named.
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 known: Bedouin country south of the Ayyubid frontier
How things stand that morning
No lord named; the Ayyubid posts are at Aila and in Transjordan (Latin East map).
Council
not recorded
Fairs and markets
not recorded
Walls and castle
not described
Trade and crafts
Water and dates for caravans.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Road geography; the 1181 raid.
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.