From Aydhab to Jeddah on the pilgrimage road
من عيذاب إلى جدة في طريق الحج
At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Arabia
- Review
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Walk the journey day by day
Station 1 of2 ·
عيذاب
عيذاب · approximate position on the map
نقطة الانطلاق: عيذاب. ركبوا الجلبة للعبور إلى جدة يوم الاثنين الخامس والعشرين من ربيع الأول، فأقاموا بالمرسى لركود الريح ثم أقلعوا صباح الثلاثاء؛ وكانت مدة المقام بعيذاب نحو ثلاثة وعشرين يوماً (الصفحة 362 من الماسح الضوئي للنسخة).
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Overview
A stage of Ibn Jubayr's pilgrimage: from Aydhab to Jeddah across the Red Sea, after a long stay at Aydhab and a hard desert road, which he describes before arriving 1.
The route
The pilgrims boarded the jalba for the crossing to Jeddah on Monday in Rabi' al-Awwal. They stayed at the anchorage because the wind had dropped, then set sail on Tuesday morning. The stay at Aydhab lasted about twenty-three days, during which he complained of hardship, bad water and bad air 2.
On the road
The book describes the desert road that pilgrims coming from the Nile take on camels, with guides from the Beja, and the many who died of thirst on it 3.
Notes on pagination
The page numbers follow the scanned file of the edition (1907), not the printed page numbers. No Gregorian date is given at this stage, because the text names the Hijri month and day without the year in this passage.
Sources
Sources
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907), pp.362–368
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907), p.362
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907), pp.364–368
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907)
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islam.museum contributors. “From Aydhab to Jeddah on the pilgrimage road”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/journey/aydhab-to-jeddah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.