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 "id": "event/mustansir-great-famine",
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 "slug": "mustansir-great-famine",
 "label": {
  "ar": "غلاء مصر العظيم في أيام المستنصر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "قال الذهبي في أيام المستنصر العبيدي كان الغلاء بمصر الذي ما عهد مثله منذ زمان يوسف فأقام سبع سنين حتى أكل الناس بعضهم بعضاً وحتى قيل إنه بيع رغيف بخمسين ديناراً {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 644}.",
  "en": "Al-Dhahabi: under the Ubaydid al-Mustansir came Egypt's famine unmatched since Joseph's days — it lasted seven years till people ate one another and a loaf was said to sell for fifty dinars {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 644}."
 },
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 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1063.999192317433,
  "latest": 1065.001266281959
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 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1064~",
   "hijri": "0457~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "نحو 457 في خلافة القائم؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 644}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1064~",
   "hijri": "0457~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "نحو 457 في خلافة القائم؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 644}."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "famine",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "1064~",
    "hijri": "0457~",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "نحو 457 في خلافة القائم؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 644}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 636–646",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-38"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ينقل السيوطي عن الذهبي أن مصر في أيام [[person/al-mustansir-fatimid|المستنصر]] العبيدي أصابها غلاء لم يُعهد مثله منذ زمن يوسف. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.644}\n\nدام الغلاء سبع سنين، حتى أكل الناس بعضهم بعضاً بحسب الرواية، وقيل إن رغيفاً بيع بخمسين ديناراً. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.644}\n\nالتاريخ تقريبي، نحو 457هـ، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mustansir-great-famine",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Suyuti relates from al-Dhahabi that Egypt in the days of the Fatimid caliph [[person/al-mustansir-fatimid|al-Mustansir]] was struck by a famine unlike any since the time of Joseph. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.644}\n\nThe famine lasted seven years, until people ate one another, according to the report; and it is said that a loaf was sold for fifty dinars. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.644}\n\nThe date is approximate, around 457 AH, and needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mustansir-great-famine",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
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   "inverse": true,
   "role": "الخليفة",
   "sources": [
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  }
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 "related": [
  "event/basasiri-coup-450",
  "person/al-mustansir-fatimid"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}