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 "id": "event/night-phantom-and-flood-337",
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 "slug": "night-phantom-and-flood-337",
 "label": {
  "ar": "وهم السطوح الليلي وفيضان دجلة سنة ٣٣٧",
  "en": "The Night Phantom on the Rooftops and the Tigris Flood of 337"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة سبع وثلاثين وثلاثمائة تفزع الناس بالليل وتحارسوا وخُيّل إليهم حيوان يظهر في سطوحهم فتارة يظنونه ذئبًا وتارة غيره فبقوا على ذلك أيامًا كثيرة ثم سكنوا، وكان ابتداؤه من سوق الثلاثاء ثم انتشر في الجانبين؛ وفي يوم الاثنين لليلتين خلتا من رمضان انتهت زيادة دجلة إلى إحدى وعشرين ذراعًا وثلث فغرقت الضياع والدور التي عليها وأشفى الجانب الشرقي على الغرق وهمّ الناس بالهرب منه {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 649}.",
  "en": "In 337 Baghdadis panicked by night for days at an animal imagined on the rooftops — now a wolf, now something else — beginning in Suq al-Thalatha' and spreading to both sides; and on Monday two nights before Ramadan's end the Tigris crested at twenty-one and a third cubits, drowning estates and nearly the whole east bank {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 649}."
 },
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   "edtf": "0948~",
   "hijri": "0337",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "status": "tradition",
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   "note": "٣٣٧؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 649}."
  },
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   "edtf": "0948~",
   "hijri": "0337",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "٣٣٧؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 649}."
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   "start": {
    "edtf": "0948~",
    "hijri": "0337",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "٣٣٧؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 649}."
   }
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "المنتظم لابن الجوزي (ط حيدرآباد 1357، ج7، سنة 337)، قراءة آبل فيجن",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium) from Apple Vision OCR",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نظرة عامة",
     "markdown": "من حوادث سنة 337هـ ما يورده ابن الجوزي في المنتظم: ظهور «الطيف» الليلي وفيوضات المياه ببغداد ونواحيها — وقد حفلت هذه السنة بآفات الفيضان وأهوال الليل التي يقصها المؤرخ ضمن أنبائها {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi}."
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   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/night-phantom-and-flood-337",
    "lang": "ar"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Among the events of 337 that Ibn al-Jawzi records in the *Muntazam*: the appearance of the night \"phantom\" and the floods of waters over Baghdad and its districts — part of that year's catalogue of calamities and nightly terrors {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi}."
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "en",
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   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "جائزہ",
     "markdown": "سن 337ھ کے واقعات میں ابن الجوزی منتظم میں لاتا ہے: «طیف» کا رات میں ظاہر ہونا اور بغداد و نواحیہ میں سیلاب — اس سال کے افات اور رات کی اہولیوں کے سلسلے میں {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi}۔"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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  "building/al-madrasa-al-nizamiyya-baghdad",
  "building/bayt-al-hikma",
  "building/bimaristan-adudi",
  "building/bimaristan-al-muqtadiri",
  "building/bimaristan-al-sayyida",
  "building/dar-al-ilm-baghdad",
  "building/jami-al-qatia",
  "building/masjid-qatiat-umm-jafar"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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