Inflation

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In Inflation, a total of 2 epidemic events are known so far.

Events

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1178 – 1179 Epidemic (wabāʾ) in Syria in the year 574 H (June 19, 1178 to June 8, 1179). It had been preceeded by inflation.  
وفيها، كان بالبلاد غلاء عام وتبعه وباء عام
[1]
In this year (1178/1179), the country had a general shortage, followed by a general epidemic. (Translation: Thomas Wozniak)

1303, August – 1304, August Horse epidemic (fanāʾ) in Syria in 703 AH (August 1303 - August 1304) which killed a majority of the Syrian horse population; the author who lived in Damascus during those days lost all of his horses (ten or more) to the illness; before the epidemic, horses in Syria had been abundant and easily available; due to the epidemic, horses became scarse and their price increased sixfold.  
1303-08-00-Syria.jpg
[2]
(Translation needed)

References

  1. Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā: Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār. 14 vols.. Abu Dhabi 2001–2004 , vol. 27, p. 117
  2. al-Nuwayrī, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad: Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab, 33 vols.. Cairo 1964-1998 , vol. 32 (ed. by Fahīm Muḥammad ʿUlwī Shaltūt, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Ahwānī, and Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ʿĀshūr, 1998), p. 78
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