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Jeddah

جدة

Red Sea port of the Hejaz, the main gateway for pilgrims to Mecca since the time of the caliph Uthman.

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Region
Arabia
Identifiers
WikidataGeoNames
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In time

630640650660
The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate

Overview

A port on the Red Sea in the Hijaz. It has been the main gateway for pilgrims to Mecca since the time of the caliph Uthman. 1

The coordinates are from the GeoNames gazetteer, to the precision of the site. 1

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Home of
Abdallah Bin Bayyah· Abu Bakr al-Shatri· Ahmad Al Shugairi· Mansour Al Salmi· Muhammad bin Abdurrahman Assegaf· Yasir Qadhi
Birthplace of
Abu Bakr al-Shatri· Ahmad Al Shugairi· Habib Ali al-Jifri· Ali Abdullah Jaber· Idrees Abkar· Majed Abdullah· Mansour Al Salmi· Salem Al-Dawsari
Place of death of
Ali Abdullah Jaber· Fazlur Rahman Khan· Idi Amin· Ma Bufang· Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Mentioned in
Muwatta 398

People and things also explored

Mecca· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Abdullah ibn Abbas· Habib Bourguiba· Malik ibn Anas· Umar bin Hafiz· Cairo· Dhaka

Sources

  1. GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Jeddah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/jeddah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.

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Mecca

City in the Hejaz, birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and site of the Kaaba and the annual Hajj.