Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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In time
Overview
In 971 floods — a great one among them — entered the Sacred Haram of Mecca and rose a cubit over the Yemeni Corner; the adib Salah al-Din al-Qurashi coined its chronogram: "O asker after the date of the swallowing flood — it rose a cubit over the Yemeni Corner" 1.
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 358-359
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islam.museum contributors. “The great Mecca flood, 971”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/mecca-flood-971/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.