{
 "id": "place/malab-iskandariyya",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "malab-iskandariyya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الملعب بالإسكندرية",
  "en": "the Hippodrome of Alexandria"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ملعب قديم بالإسكندرية كان له عيد يجتمعون إليه كل سنة وتُرمى به كرة فمن وقعت في كمه آل إليه الملك؛ وحضره عمرو بن العاص في الجاهلية فوقعت الكرة في كمه فقالوا أُحرمت العادة إن مثل هذا لا يُملّك — واقعة مشهورة؛ وفي مكان هذا الملعب عمّر بنو خليف قصرهم المنسوب إليهم {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 241-242}.",
  "en": "Alexandria's ancient hippodrome, where a yearly festival threw a ball whose lucky catcher took the kingship; Amr ibn al-As attended it in the jahiliyya and the ball fell into his sleeve — 'the custom is annulled, such a man cannot be made king' — and on its site the Banu Khulayf raised their famous palace {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 241-242}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place",
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "site",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 241-242",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-4"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umari-masalik-1924"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الملعب موضع قديم بالإسكندرية كان لأهلها فيه عيد يجتمعون إليه كل سنة. كانت تُرمى فيه كرة، ومن وقعت في كمه آل إليه الملك. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.241-242}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "واقعة عمرو بن العاص",
     "markdown": "يروي العمري أن [[person/amr-ibn-al-as|عمرو بن العاص]] حضره في الجاهلية فوقعت الكرة في كمه. فقالوا إن العادة قد أُبطلت، لأن مثل هذا لا يُملَّك. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.241-242}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الموضع بعد ذلك",
     "markdown": "في مكان هذا الملعب عمّر بنو خليف قصرهم المنسوب إليهم. وهو في [[place/iskandariyya|الإسكندرية]]. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.241-242}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malab-iskandariyya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Mal'ab (\"the playing field\") is an ancient site in Alexandria, where its people held a festival every year. A ball was thrown there, and whoever it fell into the sleeve of was made king. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.241-242}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The episode of Amr ibn al-As",
     "markdown": "Al-Umari reports that [[person/amr-ibn-al-as|Amr ibn al-As]] attended it in the Jahiliyya, and the ball fell into his sleeve. They said that the custom had been abolished, because such a thing cannot be owned. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.241-242}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The site afterwards",
     "markdown": "On the site of this playing field, the Banu Khalif built their palace, which is named after them. It is in [[place/iskandariyya|Alexandria]]. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.241-242}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malab-iskandariyya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/iskandariyya",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/umari-masalik-1924"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "وقعت الكرة في كمه في الجاهلية فأُبطلت العادة.",
   "sources": [
    "source/umari-masalik-1924"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/conquest-of-alexandria",
  "event/roman-recapture-of-alexandria",
  "building/amud-al-sawari",
  "event/amr-dismissal-egypt",
  "event/battle-of-dathin",
  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/conquest-of-caesarea",
  "event/conquest-of-damascus"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}