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 "id": "event/earthquake-597",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "earthquake-597",
 "label": {
  "ar": "زلزلة سنة 597هـ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة سبع وتسعين وخمس مئة كان الجوع المفرط والموت بالديار المصرية وجرت أمور تتجاوز الوصف ودام ذلك إلى نصف العام حتى قيل لو قال قائل مات ثلاثة أرباع أهل الإقليم لما أبعدوا بيعت لحوم الآدميين، وفي شعبان كانت الزلزلة العظمى التي عمت أكثر الدنيا، قال أبو شامة مات عشر خلق تحت الرم وهدمت نابلس وأحصى من هلك في هذه السنة فكان ألف ألف ومائة ألف {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}.",
  "en": "The famine of 597 in Egypt when human flesh was sold, then in Sha'ban the great earthquake that struck most of the world — Abu Shama: a tenth of mankind died beneath the rubble, Nablus was razed, and the year's dead were counted at a million and a hundred thousand {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place",
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile",
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1201.0013210401307,
  "latest": 1202.00065709765
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1201~",
   "hijri": "0597~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "الجوع ثم الزلزلة في شعبان 597هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}",
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1201~",
   "hijri": "0597~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "الجوع ثم الزلزلة في شعبان 597هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}",
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "famine",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "1201~",
    "hijri": "0597~",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "الجوع ثم الزلزلة في شعبان 597هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}",
    "sources": [
     "source/shadharat-dhahab"
    ]
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "شذرات الذهب — ابن العماد (ج3، سنين 350–600)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-shadharat-batch-18"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/shadharat-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "تذكر شذرات الذهب لسنة 597هـ جوعاً شديداً وموتاً بالديار المصرية، ثم زلزلة عظيمة في شعبان قيل إنها عمّت أكثر الدنيا. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما تنقله الشذرات",
     "markdown": "يروي ابن العماد أن الجوع دام إلى نصف العام، وأن لحوم الآدميين بيعت. وينقل عن أبي شامة أن عشر الخلق ماتوا تحت الرمل، وأن نابلس هُدمت. ثم يذكر أن من هلك في تلك السنة أُحصي فكان ألف ألف ومئة ألف. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}\n\nهذه أرقام ينقلها المصدر كما وردت، ولا تُعرف طريقة إحصائها. يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/earthquake-597",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The \"Fragments of Gold\" (Shadharat al-Dhahab) records for 597 AH a severe famine and death in the land of Egypt, then a great earthquake in Sha'ban, which it is said spread over most of the world. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What the Fragments transmits",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Imad reports that the famine lasted to the middle of the year, and that human flesh was sold. He reports from Abu Shama that a tenth of the people died under the sand, and that Nablus was destroyed. He then says that the number of those who died that year was counted at eleven hundred thousand. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 809}\n\nThese are figures the source gives as they stand, and the method of counting them is not known. An additional source is needed."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/earthquake-597",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}