Tomb of Eve

[2] In 1975, the site was also sealed with concrete by religious authorities, who disapprove of pilgrims praying at tombs.

[5] Angelo Pesce mentions the site in his book on Jeddah[6] and the earliest documented reference to the tomb: In Hamdani (10th century) who states 'It has been related that Adam was in Mine when he felt a yearning to see Eve... that Eve had come from Juddah, and that he knew her on Arafat.

Historians like Tabari, Masudi, and others state that, according to tradition, Eve is buried in Jeddah, but fail to give any detail of her tomb.British Acting Consul S. R. Jordan, writing in early 1926, describes the tomb as follows:[8] It may not be generally known that here is the Tomb of Eve, “ the mother of the world.” The grave is some 200 yards long and some 4 yards wide and has in the middle a small mosque, where formerly, on payment of a few piastres baksheish, the keeper of the edifice would lift a flagstone from the centre of the floor to allow sceptical Christians and pious Moslems an opportunity of admiring the lady’s navel.

This tomb, until orders were issued to the contrary, used to be the favourite resort of childless wives and languishing maidens, but now has been closed under royal irade and anybody frequenting the place is punished.Émile-Félix Gautier estimates the length of the tomb to about 130 m.[9] The publicist Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah mentions about the dimensions: Eve must have been a lady of formidable proportions, for the original grave, I was told, was some eight feet long.

It was as well, therefore, that she had not survived to welcome us in the flesh, for although it is rumored that we Muslims have an eye for ladies of heroic proportion we draw the line at the titanic.