دور الموانئ الأفريقية في تسهيل الحج إلى الحجاز من القرن السادس إلى الثامن الهجري القرن الثاني عشر إلى الرابع عشر الميلادي: ميناء زيلع أنموذجا

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This study discusses the impact of African ports in facilitating pilgrimages' matters to the Hijaz in the sixth and eighth centuries AD / twelfth and fourteenth centuries, and highlights the historical significance of being addressed to the role of the two most important East African ports are ports Aidab and Zeila as they are considered the leading African pilgrimage outlets for pilgrims of this continent to the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the land of Hijaz across the Red Sea.

Zeila port has many facilities for travelers through it.

Zeila port presented many facilities for travelers through it, and provided them with some of the requirements needed by the pilgrims in their travel trip, such as protection during the road trip, means of transport, food and other necessary things for any traveler who traveled through land or sea, with reference to some trouble and hardships that were exposed to the pilgrims as they traveled in the sea journey such as , bad weather, severe storms, pirates 'cutting off and thieves ships at sea, and other things that exhausted pilgrims and tired them through trip.