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 "id": "event/damascus-famine-643",
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 "slug": "damascus-famine-643",
 "label": {
  "ar": "غلاء دمشق المفرط سنة 643هـ",
  "en": "Extreme Famine in Damascus in 643 AH"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة ثلاث وأربعين وست مئة كان الغلاء المفرط بدمشق بيعت الغرارة بألف وست مئة درهم وأكلت الجيف وتوفي بها خلق كثير من الأعيان {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 224}.",
  "en": "In 643 Damascus suffered extreme dearth: the load of grain sold at 1,600 dirhams, carrion was eaten and many notables perished {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 224}."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1245.0022245494433,
  "latest": 1246.0015606069624
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1245~",
   "hijri": "0643",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "643هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 224}",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1245~",
   "hijri": "0643",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "643هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 224}",
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "famine",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "1245~",
    "hijri": "0643",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "643هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 224}",
    "sources": [
     "source/shadharat-dhahab"
    ]
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "شذرات الذهب — ابن العماد (ج5، سنة 643)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-shadharat-batch-50"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/shadharat-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في سنة ٦٤٣هـ كان بدمشق غلاء مفرط، بحسب ابن العماد. بيعت الغرارة بألف وست مئة درهم، وأُكلت الجيف، وتوفي خلق كثير من الأعيان. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.224}\n\nالمصدر واحد، وتفاصيل الواقعة تحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/damascus-famine-643",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "In 643 AH there was an extreme dearth in Damascus, according to Ibn al-Imad. A sack of grain was sold for one thousand six hundred dirhams, carrion was eaten, and many notables died. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.224}\n\nThe source is a single one, and the details of the event need an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/damascus-famine-643",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ابن العماد کے مطابق سنہ 643ھ میں دمشق میں شدید گرانی تھی۔ ایک غرارہ (بوری) ایک ہزار چھ سو درہم میں بکا، لوگوں نے مردار کھایا، اور بہت سے معزز افراد وفات پا گئے۔ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.224}\n\nاس واقعے کا مصدر ایک ہی ہے، اور اس کی تفصیلات کے لیے اضافی مصدر درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/damascus-famine-643",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}