1402 AH
Jeddah's Hajj Terminal opens, a field of tent-shaped roofs built for pilgrims arriving by air. Journeys that once took months now take hours.
How it touches Islam In the 1950s about 100,000 pilgrims a year came from abroad; by 2019 nearly two and a half million performed Hajj.
And proclaim to the people the Hajj [pilgrimage]; they will come to you on foot and on every lean camel; they will come from every distant pass -
Quran 22:27
Source: History ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
