The Loom and Village Census of 837
إحصاء النول والقرى 837هـ
between 1433 and 1434 CE · 837 AH
A stark demographic register for 837: Alexandria's weavers' looms counted 800 against 14,000 at the eighth century's close, and the army clerks' census found Egypt's villages, Upper and Lower, at 2,170 against 10,000 under the early Fatimids 1.
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- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
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Overview
The "Fragments of Gold" records for 837 AH a count of the weavers in Alexandria and of the villages of Egypt, and compares it with what had been before. 1
The figures given
The weavers in Alexandria were counted, and there were eight hundred looms in it, while at the end of the eighth century there had been fourteen thousand looms. The army registry counted the villages of Egypt, southern and northern, as two thousand one hundred and seventy. At the beginning of the Fatimid state there had been ten thousand villages. 1
The figures are given on the source's own authority. An additional source is needed.
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 226
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