{
 "id": "place/ukaz",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "ukaz",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عكاظ",
  "en": "ʿUkāẓ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أعظم أسواق العرب موسم الحج قرب الطائف؛ ملتقى الشعر والفخار وموضع خطب الإسلام الأولى بالوفود.",
  "en": "The Arabs’ greatest seasonal fair near al-Ṭaʾif — arena of poetry and boasting, later a preaching ground of Islam."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "site",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 35–47"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "عكاظ من أسواق العرب الشهيرة التي كانت تُعقد في الأشهر الحرم مع [[place/dhu-al-majaz|ذي المجاز]] و[[place/majanna|مجنة]] وغيرها في عرض الرحيق المختوم؛ فالتجارة كانت أكبر وسيلة للحصول على حوائج الحياة ولا تتيسر إلا بالأمن الذي كان مفقوداً في الجزيرة إلا في هذه الشهور {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.46}. انظر [[concept/economic-condition-jahiliyya|الحالة الاقتصادية]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما لم يُذكر هنا",
     "markdown": "موضع عكاظ قرب الطائف وما كان فيها من تفاخر بالشعر، وخروج النبي إليها يعرض نفسه على القبائل، في مواضعها من الكتاب وتُضاف عند الوصول إليها."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "عكاظ سوق كبير يجتمع فيه العرب قديماً للتجارة ومسابقات الشعر في الشهور التي لا قتال فيها."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/ukaz",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ukaz: the greatest of the Arabs' seasonal markets near Ta'if; meeting-place of poets and orators, and site of the Prophet's first call to the delegations."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The place",
     "markdown": "Ukaz was among the Arabs' greatest markets; people gathered there from every tribe in the hajj season, boasting and vaunting in poetry and oratory {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}.\n\nThe Prophet used to go out to Ukaz, al-Majanna and Dhu al-Majaz offering himself to the tribes and calling them to Islam before the Hijra {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Ukaz is a great market where the Arabs gathered long ago for trade and poetry contests; the Prophet used to call people to God there."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/ukaz",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "concept/economic-condition-jahiliyya",
   "type": "has_practice",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/dhu-al-majaz",
  "place/majanna",
  "concept/economic-condition-jahiliyya"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}