{
 "id": "building/marib-dam",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "marib-dam",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Maʾrib Dam",
  "ar": "سد مأرب"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The great dam of the Sabaean kingdom whose construction began in the Mukarrib era; its repeated breaches, and final burst around 450 CE, are the Sayl al-Arim of Surat Saba in the sira’s account.",
  "ar": "السد العظيم لمملكة سبأ الذي بدأ بناؤه في عهد المكاربة؛ تتابعت ثلماته حتى انفجر انفجاراً كبرى نحو سنة 450م وهو سيل العرم في سورة سبأ."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place",
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "engineering-and-technology"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/tafhim-al-quran"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 15–34 (batch 25a)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "سد مأرب: عجيبة اليمن الهندسية؛ بدأ بناؤه في زمن مكاربة سبأ، وانفجاره الكبير نحو 450م هو سيل العرم."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "بدأ بناء السد الذي عرف بسد مأرب في زمن المكاربة بعاصمتهم صرواح، وله شأن كبير في تاريخ اليمن {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nوبعد استقلال اليمن من الاحتلال الحبشي الأول بدأت تقع فيه الثلمات، حتى وقع السيل العظيم الذي ذكره القرآن بسيل العرم في سنة 450م أو 451م، فأدى إلى خراب العمران وتشتت الشعوب {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "سد مأرب حاجز ماء عظيم في اليمن القديمة؛ انكسر يوماً فسال وادٌ كبير فرّق قبائل كثيرة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/marib-dam",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Ma'rib dam: Yemen's engineering marvel; its building began in the time of Saba''s Mukarribs, and its great breach around 450 CE is the flood of al-Arim."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "Building began on the dam known as the Ma'rib dam in the Mukarribs' time at their capital Sirwah; it has a great place in Yemen's history {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nAfter Yemen's independence from the first Abyssinian occupation, breaches began to occur in it, until the great flood came — which the Qur'an mentions as the flood of al-Arim — in 450 or 451 CE, bringing ruin to the settled lands and scattering the peoples {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "The Ma'rib dam is a mighty water-barrier in ancient Yemen; one day it broke, a great valley flooded, and many tribes scattered."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/marib-dam",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "event/flood-of-al-aram",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "place/marib",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/flood-of-al-aram",
  "place/marib",
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}