Jeddah, Also Juddah, Jiddah

City

CityAlso Juddah, Jiddah

Jeddahجدة

Makkah's sea gate, where most pilgrims have arrived by ship for nearly fourteen centuries.

A fishing settlement on the Red Sea that the caliph Uthman chose as Makkah's port in 647. For centuries pilgrims from Africa, India and the Malay world landed here. A popular tradition placed the tomb of Hawwa, mother of humankind, in its old cemetery.

What happened here?

Everyone and everything in the timeline

People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.

Places