{
 "id": "place/haifa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "haifa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "حيفا",
  "en": "Haifa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بلد تحت طرف الكرمل، مرسى حسن لإرساء الأساطيل وغيرها، وتبعد عن قيسارية ثلاث مراحل خفاف. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 365}",
  "en": "A town below the tip of Mount Carmel with a good harbour for fleets, three light stages from Qaysariyya. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 365}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 365 (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": "حيفا بلد تحت طرف جبل الكرمل، فيها مرسى حسن لإرساء الأسطول وغيره، وتبعد عن قيسارية ثلاث مراحل خفاف، بحسب الإدريسي. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.365}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/haifa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Haifa is a town at the foot of Mount Carmel, with a fine harbour where a fleet and other vessels can anchor. It lies three light stages from Caesarea, according to al-Idrisi. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.365}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/haifa",
    "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": "حیفا کوہِ کرمل کے دامن میں ایک شہر ہے، جہاں بحری بیڑے اور دوسری کشتیوں کے لنگر ڈالنے کے لیے اچھی بندرگاہ ہے۔ ادریسی کے مطابق یہ قیساریہ سے تین ہلکے مرحلوں کے فاصلے پر ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.365}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/haifa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-14",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/izz-ad-din-al-qassam",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Based in Haifa from the early 1920s until his death in 1935: imam of the al-Istiqlal Mosque, a waqf official and marriage registrar, and president of the Haifa branch of the Young Men's Muslim Association {cite:wikipedia-izz-ad-din-al-qassam-en} {cite:wikipedia-izz-ad-din-al-qassam-ar}.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-izz-ad-din-al-qassam-en",
    "source/wikipedia-izz-ad-din-al-qassam-ar"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/izz-ad-din-al-qassam"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}