The Early Islamic Period

During the Early Islamic period, 7th-12th centuries CE, Yavneh-Yam is named either mahuz Yibna (by the geographer Muqqaddasi, 985 CE) or mahuz a-tani, namely the harbor of Yavneh, respectively the second harbor (after Ashdod, which is called the ‘first harbor’, by the geographer Idrissi, 12^th century CE). The harbor served as one of the places along the Mediterranean where prisoners were exchanged between Muslims and Byzantines.