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  "ar": "وباء البصرة الكبير"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة 258هـ ظهر بالأهواز والعراق وباء وانتشر إلى حدود فيد وكان كل يوم يموت ببغداد خمسمائة إلى ستمائة، وكانت هدة كثيرة بالبصرة تساقط منها أكثر المدينة ومات فيها أكثر من عشرين ألف إنسان {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}.",
  "en": "In 258 plague spread from Ahwaz through Iraq to the gates of Fars: five to six hundred dead a day in Baghdad, and in Basra — already Zanj-besieged — the falls of sickness took more than twenty thousand {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}."
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 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 871.0013894878061,
  "latest": 872.0007255453252
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0871~",
   "hijri": "0258",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "258؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0871~",
   "hijri": "0258",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "258؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}."
  }
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    "edtf": "0871~",
    "hijri": "0258",
    "calendar": "julian",
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    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "258؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "المنتظم لابن الجوزي (ط دائرة المعارف، حيدر آباد) ج٥/٢",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muntazam-batch-1"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في سنة 258هـ ظهر بالأهواز والعراق وباء امتد إلى حدود فيد، كما يروي ابن الجوزي في «المنتظم». {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "يذكر المصدر أن الذين كانوا يموتون ببغداد كل يوم بين خمسمئة وستمئة. وفي البصرة كانت «هدة» كثيرة تساقط منها أكثر المدينة، ومات فيها أكثر من عشرين ألف إنسان. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}\n\nالأرقام من رواية ابن الجوزي وحدها، وتحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/plague-of-basra-258",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "In 258 AH a plague appeared in al-Ahwaz and Iraq and spread as far as the borders of Fayd, as Ibn al-Jawzi relates in *al-Muntazam*. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its effect",
     "markdown": "The source reports that those who died in Baghdad each day numbered between five hundred and six hundred. In Basra there was a great \"hadda\", a collapse of buildings, by which most of the city fell, and more than twenty thousand people died in it. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 100}\n\nThe figures come from Ibn al-Jawzi's account alone, and need an additional source."
    }
   ],
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    "id": "event/plague-of-basra-258",
    "lang": "en",
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    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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