Qus to Aydhab across the desert, on Ibn Jubayr's road
من قوص إلى عيذاب في الصحراء، طريق ابن جبير
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- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Arabia
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Walk the journey day by day
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قوص
نقطة الانطلاق: قوص. خرجوا منها على الإبل نحو عيذاب في صحراء لا عمارة فيها (الصفحة 368 من الماسح الضوئي للنسخة).
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Overview
A stage of Ibn Jubayr's journey to the pilgrimage. He left Qus on camels with the camel-drivers from al-Mubarraz on the southern side of the town, and then reached Aydhab 1.
In the desert
They set out on Monday, the thirteenth of Safar, and at the beginning of the night they halted at a water known as al-Hajir. After it the book mentions the water points: Umma, Mujallaj, al-'Ashira, two stages from Aydhab, al-Khubayb, Shaghib, Astan, al-'Abdayn, Anqash and Mahatt al-Luqayta. The order of these points is not settled, because their mention in the text runs across two routes 1.
The book states that this road was deadly to pilgrims through thirst 1.
Aydhab
They arrived on Saturday. It is a city on the coast of the Jeddah sea, without walls, and from it the jalab sail to Jeddah 1.
Sources
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907)
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islam.museum contributors. “Qus to Aydhab across the desert, on Ibn Jubayr's road”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/journey/qus-to-aydhab-jubayr-desert/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.