قطاع الطرق وخطرهم على ركب الحج في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي بين القرنين 7-9هـ/13-15م

Abstract

قطاع الطرق وخطرهم على ركب الحج في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي بين القرنين 7-9هـ/13-15م. Abstract This study intends to shed light on the raids and robbery phenomena on pilgrims caravans that worsened by the beginning of the 7th Century of the Islamic calendar/13th AD, and the decline of the Almohads dynasty on the land routes in the Islamic Maghreb. Security was no more established especially when a mess spread in the routes that pilgrims caravans started to walk on. This area was dominated by gangs and bandits when the new political authorities failed to recover security; therefore, at several times pilgrims were subject to the dangers of robbery and theft and even murder by thieves and bandits. This pushed the scholars in the region to drop the task of hajj (pilgrimage) for maghrebeens because of the hazards of the route or to wait until secure conditions get bettered.