The Egyptian Hajj Road to Mecca .. A cultural heritage knocks on the doors of UNESCO to record within the World Heritage
West African pilgrims since the beginning of the Islamic era.
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& nbsp; This period stopped using the land road in North Sinai, and the pilgrims of Egypt were riding the Nile ships to the city of Qus, Qena Governorate, Upper Egypt, then they travel with caravans to the port of Ayhab, then cross the sea to Jeddah, and the third stage extends from 667 AH to 1301 AH, during which the pilgrims’ convoys returned to the use of the coastal road, and the fourth stage and extends from 1301 AH to contemporary history and in which the pilgrims stopped using the road They were using the maritime road from Suez. Hajj & quot;, and still exists so far in the name of the village & quot; Al -Baraka & quot; Al -Marj neighborhood is currently affiliated with the governor of Cairo, then the & quot; Al -Bouib & quot; Followed by an area called & quot; Ajaroud & quot;, and the distance between them is 150 km long, and the second & quot; Ajaroud & quot; To the city of & quot; In central Sinai, with a similar length for the first 150 km, and the third & quot & quot; To & quot; Ayla & quot;; Aqaba is currently, on the Gulf of Aqaba, and its length is 200 km, and the caravans of pilgrims cut each of these three stages in about three days.
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& nbsp; The Hajj, where the knees run three days from Ajar to & quot; the penalty of the mule & quot; that area that contains an important sign that defines the features of this road, which is the inscription of the Sultan Al -Ghuri, which contains Quranic texts and a special engraving of his construction of this road, and this engraving is there until now, and from there to an obstacle, where the journey takes from the pilgrim pool to the hurdle of nine days, after which the pilgrims go along the sea along the sea Al -Ahmar in the south to a field, Madin, Yanbu, Badr, Rabigh, Betm Bitter, and from there to Makkah Al -Mukarramah.
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& nbsp; The first path used by the pilgrims of Egypt and the Arab Maghreb is a way & quot; Qus – Aghab & quot; In Upper Egypt, during the period from the year 450 to 665 AH, corresponding to 1058-1266 AD, where the pilgrims came out of Cairo before the month of Ramadan and then headed southern Egypt for a distance of 640 km, where the city of Qus in Qena Governorate, then traveling a distance of 160 km to the port of & quot; Ajah & quot; On the Red Sea coast, the scenes of Jeddah Port, and they remain two months waiting for the boats that carry them across the Red Sea to the port of Jeddah and then to Mecca.
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& nbsp; Dr. Al -Bayadi notes that the first tributary of the road started from the major cities in North Africa and the South Sahara, where convoys gather to the Maghreb countries at & quot; Al -Hajj & quot; Northeast of Cairo, where pilgrims go down before the convoy, accompanied by Al -Muzal and the Hajj convoy, and this road is two paths, one of which is a sea that starts from the ports of the coast of Andalusia and North Africa until reaching the coast of Egypt, especially the port of Alexandria, and then the Suez Canal, and the other is wild with two paths; An internal coastal and desert through the oases, and they have tributaries and branches in which several official passengers are running, such as & quot; And the Tunisian.
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