Town · The Bedouin tribes · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Turaba

A palm oasis in Wadi Turaba on the road from Ta'if into Najd and down to Bisha, in the old country of the Hawazin and the Banu Hilal.

Who holds it

Title
not known
Since
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Born
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Family
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Confidence
low

No holder named in the sources read.

Council

not recorded

Fairs and markets

not recorded

Walls and castle

not described

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Tenth-century geography only.

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

  1. al-Hamdani, Sifat Jazirat al-Arab (tenth century), the standard description of the tribes and places of the Sarat, Najd and the Hejaz, as used in the Wikipedia tribal articles cited here

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.