Ibn Jubayr's hajj, 579 AH

حج ابن جبير سنة ٥٧٩هـ

c. June 1183 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 579 AH – c. June 1183 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 579 AH

Mecca

Ibn Jubayr performed the hajj of 579/1183, standing at Arafat and staying months at Mecca describing the Ka'ba, the tawaf and the sanctuary 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb · Egypt & Nile · Arabia · Levant & Iraq
Review
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In time

1170118011901200 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Mecca

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Had participant
Ibn Jubayr, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Kinani
Occurred at
Mecca

People and things also explored

Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone· Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib

Sources

  1. The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907)
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Dar al-Nadwa

The council house founded by Qusayy on the north side of the mosque of the Kaaba, with its door into the mosque; Quraysh deliberated its grave matters and married off its daughters there.