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{{Disease
|Date start=1348-04
|Date end=1349-03-22
|Place=Aleppo; Damascus
|Country=Egypt
|Victim=20.000 + 1000 + 500
|Victim count type=absolute
|Disease=Fanāʾ; Plague; Symptoms; Wabāʾ; Ṭāʿūn
|Epidemic wave=Black Death
|Keyword=Adolescents; Blood spitting; Epidemics; Mortality; Poor people; Transmission route; Women; Ṭāʿūn
|Reference=Ibn Ḥabīb - Tadhkirat al-nabīh 1976-1986, vol. 3 (1986), pp. 110-112
|Reference translation=Translation by Undine Ott
|Summary=From April 1, 1348 to March 22, 1349), an unprecedented [[plague]] hit the Middle East, and lasted about a year, and one third of [[Greater Syria]]’s and Egypt’s population died.
|Text=
|Language=Arabic
|Translation=The [[Black Death]] in the [[Middle East]]: In the year 749 H (April 1, 1348 to March 22, 1349), an unprecedented wave of plague hit the Middle East. It was the sixth plague which affected the Middle East in the Islamic period. It was called the Kinship Plague (Ṭāʿūn al-Ansāb) since the decease of a person was often followed by the death of some of his or her relatives. People developed pustules, spat yellow blood and died within 50 hours. When people started spitting blood they would bid farewell to their friends, close their shops, their burial would be prepared, and they would die in their homes. The daily death toll reached a maximum of ca. 500 in [[Aleppo]], more than 1,000 in [[Damascus]], and ca. 20,000 in [[Egypt]]. Mostly women, youths, poor people, and riffraff died. The plague wave lasted about a year, and ca. one third of [[Greater Syria]]’s (Shām) and Egypt’s population died.
|Region=Greater Syria; Middle East
}}