تجارة مدينة جدة في كتب الجغرافية و الرحلات

Abstract EN

The city of Jeddah enjoys an important geographical and economic location for the Arabs of the Arabian peninsula, as it is located on the eastern coast of the red sea, which made it, since ancient times, a meeting place for trade convoys that unload their cargo there and then proceed to the rest of the surrounding cities, especially Makkah al-Mukarramah with which it is closely linked, as Jeddah was its outlet and the most important gateway to contact with the outside world, and both cities became complementary to each other in the process of commercial activity, as the presence of the sacred house of god in Makkah al-Mukarramah earned it a sacred religious significance, so many people from the east and west of the earth came to it for the purpose of hajj and umrah, and the markets for shopping spread in it.

including those pilgrims, as well as the seasonal markets that were held for limited days of the year and were visited by people from inside and outside to display their products, industries and others, with the aim of promoting and advertising for their sale and exchange and informing people of them books of traveler’s geographers and historians Muslims.

and the non-muslims who went to the holy sites or who went out of love and wrote down their observations and what was going on in those areas.

the city of Jeddah did not live up to the level that the major cities enjoyed in their books, such as Cairo, Damascus, Alexandria, and other central cities that played an important role in the march of Islamic civilization.