From Baghdad to Medina on the Iraqi pilgrim road

من بغداد إلى المدينة على طريق الحاج العراقي

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq · Arabia
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Overview

A passage from Ibn Jubayr's journey on the Iraqi pilgrim road from Baghdad to Kufa and then to Medina, through the desert 1.

The route

From Baghdad to al-Hilla by way of al-Qantara, al-Qurash and Zarairan, then on to Kufa. From Kufa the pilgrims travelled through al-Aqaba, Waqisa, al-Gharra', al-Shuqra, Zubala, al-Haytham, Birkat al-Marjum, al-Bayda, Zurud, Sutayra, al-Naqranat and al-Hajir, and then to Medina, where they stayed five days 1.

Notes on pagination

The page numbers follow the scanned file of the 1907 edition. The text does not state the year of this passage at its place, and no date has been calculated. Some stations have no place file here, so they are named by their Arabic names only.

Sources

Sources

  1. The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907), pp.205–219
  2. The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907)
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islam.museum contributors. “From Baghdad to Medina on the Iraqi pilgrim road”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/journey/baghdad-to-medina-jubayr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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