{
 "id": "place/malal",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "malal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "ملل",
  "en": "Malal"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة صغيرة لا سور لها، أشبه بقرية كبيرة، على تل من تراب أحمر يحميها، ويتحصن أهلها فيه من غارات السودان الآخرين. يشربون من عين تخرج من جبل جنوبها، ماؤها مالح. ومن أهلها من يُسبى ويُباع، ويُوسم الجميع بالنار في وجوههم {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 22}.",
  "en": "A small town without walls, like a large village, on a hill of red earth that protects its people from raids. They drink from a spring that rises in the mountain to the south, and its water is brackish. Its people are raided and sold, and everyone there is marked with a burn on the face {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 22}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 22 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ملل مدينة صغيرة لا سور لها، أشبه بقرية كبيرة. تقوم على تل من تراب أحمر يحميها، ويتحصن أهلها فيه من غارات السودان الآخرين. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.22}\n\nيشربون من عين تخرج من جبل جنوبها، وماؤها مالح. ويذكر الإدريسي أن من أهلها من يُسبى ويُباع، وأن الجميع يُوسمون بالنار في وجوههم. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.22}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malal",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Malal is a small city without a wall, more like a large village. It stands on a mound of red earth that protects it, and its people fortify themselves there against the raids of other Sudanese peoples. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.22}\n\nIts people drink from a spring that flows from a mountain to its south, and its water is brackish. Al-Idrisi mentions that some of its people are taken captive and sold, and that all of them are marked with fire on their faces. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.22}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malal",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/muwatta-1-014",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/muwatta-maruf-1997"
   ]
  }
 ],
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  "passage/muwatta-kitab-01-salat",
  "person/uthman-ibn-affan",
  "place/medina",
  "practice/salah",
  "passage/muwatta-1-014"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}