al-Muqaddasi's first pilgrimage, 356/967

حجة المقدسي الأولى سنة ٣٥٦هـ

967 CE · 356 AH

Mecca

Al-Muqaddasi made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 356/967, the first dated journey recoverable from his own work — his life is known only through Ahsan al-Taqasim 1.

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Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Arabia

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Mecca

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Overview

Al-Muqaddasi made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 356/967 — the first of his dated journeys that can be recovered from his own book, since his life is known only through Ahsan al-Taqasim 1.

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Had participant
al-Muqaddasi al-Bashshari
Occurred at
Mecca

People and things also explored

al-Muqaddasi's second pilgrimage, 367/978· Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Sabil of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh, Masjid al-Haram· Sabils of King Abd al-Aziz on the Mecca-Jeddah road· Siqaya of al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Masjid al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 544
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al-Muqaddasi's second pilgrimage, 367/978

Al-Muqaddasi made the pilgrimage to Mecca a second time in 367/978, eleven years after his first recorded hajj.