{
 "id": "event/flood-of-al-aram",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "flood-of-al-aram",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Flood of al-Arim (the Bursting of Maʾrib Dam)",
  "ar": "سيل العرم"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The great breach of the Maʾrib dam around 450–451 CE which the Quran recalls as Sayl al-Arim; in the sira’s account it ruins Yemen’s settled life and sends the Qahtani tribes scattering across the peninsula.",
  "ar": "الثّلمة العظيمة في سد مأرب نحو سنة 450–451م التي يذكرها القرآن بسيل العرم؛ وفي عرض السيرة أدت إلى خراب العمران باليمن وتشتت بطون قحطان في البلاد."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time",
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "wars-and-campaigns"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 450.0016427442042,
  "latest": 451.00097880172325
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0450~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "450 أو 451م عند المباركفوري؛ والتعيين مختلف فيه بشدة بين المصادر."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0450~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "450 أو 451م عند المباركفوري؛ والتعيين مختلف فيه بشدة بين المصادر."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0450~",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "debated",
    "note": "450 أو 451م عند المباركفوري؛ والتعيين مختلف فيه بشدة بين المصادر."
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/tafhim-al-quran",
   "source/tarikh-ard-al-quran"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 15–34 (batch 25a)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "انفجار [[building/marib-dam|سد مأرب]] نحو سنة 450–451م، الذي يذكره القرآن بسيل العرم، وأدى في عرض السيرة إلى خراب عمران اليمن وتشتت بطون قحطان."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "بعد أن نالت اليمن استقلالها من الاحتلال الحبشي الأول بدأت تقع الثلمات في سد مأرب، حتى وقع السيل العظيم الذي ذكره القرآن بسيل العرم في سنة 450م أو 451م، وكانت حادثة كبرى أدت إلى خراب العمران وتشتت الشعوب {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nوقد ذكره القرآن في سورة سبأ ([[passage/quran-34-16|سبأ 16]] وما حولها) {cite:tafhim-al-quran}. وقال بعض الكتاب عن تعيين هذه السنين إن الاختلاف فيه كبير بين المصادر التاريخية {cite:tarikh-ard-al-quran}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان لليمن سد عظيم يحبس الماء، فلما انكسر جرى سيل كبير خرّب البلاد، فهاجر كثير من القبائل من اليمن إلى بقية الجزيرة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/flood-of-al-aram",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The bursting of the [[building/marib-dam|Marib dam]] around 450–451 CE, which the Qur'an mentions as the flood of al-Arim — an event that, in the sira's telling, ruined the settlement of Yemen and scattered the subtribes of Qahtan."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "After Yemen won its independence from the first Abyssinian occupation, breaches began appearing in the Marib dam, until the great flood the Qur'an calls the flood of al-Arim occurred in 450 or 451 CE — a major catastrophe that ruined the civilisation and scattered the peoples {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nThe Qur'an mentions it in Sura Saba ([[passage/quran-34-16|Saba 16]] and what follows) {cite:tafhim-al-quran}. Some writers say of fixing those years that the disagreement over it is great among the historical sources {cite:tarikh-ard-al-quran}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Yemen had a great dam that held back water; when it broke, a huge flood ran and ruined the land, and many tribes emigrated from Yemen to the rest of the peninsula."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/flood-of-al-aram",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/marib",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "building/marib-dam",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "period/pre-islamic-arabia",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-34-16",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "building/marib-dam",
  "place/marib",
  "event/abyssinian-occupation-of-yemen",
  "event/battle-of-dhu-qar",
  "event/expulsion-of-jurhum",
  "event/massacre-of-najran",
  "event/persian-rule-of-yemen",
  "event/qusayy-takes-mecca"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}