From Baghdad to Medina on the Iraqi pilgrim road
من بغداد إلى المدينة على طريق الحاج العراقي
At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Arabia
- Review
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Walk the journey day by day
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بغداد
نقطة الانطلاق: بغداد. من بغداد إلى الحلة مروراً بالقرية وبالقنطرة والقراش وزريران على شط الفرات، ثم عبور الجسر إلى الحلة، ثم سير الحاج إلى الكوفة. النص يذكر أيام الأسبوع دون تحديد سنة، فلا يُثبت هنا تاريخ هجري (الصفحات 205–212).
رقم المحطة في ترتيب النص، لا يدل على عدد الأيام ما لم يذكره النص.
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
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907), pp.205–219
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907)
Cite this page
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.