{
 "id": "place/al-ahsa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-ahsa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الأحساء",
  "en": "al-Ahsa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة على البحر الفارسي، حسنة لكنها صغيرة، وذكر الإدريسي أن القرامطة كانوا فيها، وتبعد عن القطيف مرحلتين. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 386}",
  "en": "A city on the Gulf coast, fine but small, which al-Idrisi says the Qaramita once held; two stages from al-Qatif. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 386}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 386 (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": "الأحساء مدينة على البحر الفارسي، حسنة لكنها صغيرة، بحسب الإدريسي. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 386}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الموقع والتاريخ",
     "markdown": "يذكر الإدريسي أن القرامطة كانوا فيها. وتبعد عن القطيف مرحلتين. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 386}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-ahsa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Ahsa: a town on the Persian Gulf, pleasant but small, according to al-Idrisi. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 386}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Location and history",
     "markdown": "Al-Idrisi says that the Qarmatians were in it. It lies two stages from al-Qatif. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 386}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-ahsa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الاحساء بحرِ فارس پر ایک شہر ہے، خوبصورت مگر چھوٹا، ادریسی کے مطابق۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 386}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "محلِ وقوع اور تاریخ",
     "markdown": "ادریسی ذکر کرتے ہیں کہ قرامطہ وہاں تھے۔ یہ قطیف سے دو مرحلے کے فاصلے پر ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 386}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-ahsa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-14",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/haifaa-al-mansour",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-haifaa-al-mansour-en"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/salah-al-budair",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Born at Hofuf, in the Al-Ahsa governorate; no place entity exists for Hofuf itself.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-salah-al-budair-en",
    "source/wikipedia-salah-al-budair-ar"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/medina",
  "screen/al-murashsha-al-mithaliyya-2019",
  "screen/wajda-2012",
  "person/haifaa-al-mansour",
  "person/salah-al-budair"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}