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 "id": "building/dayr-al-abyad",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "dayr-al-abyad",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الدير الأبيض",
  "en": "the White Monastery (Dayr al-Abyad)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "دير جليل البناء أبيض كما سُمّي، بالحجر الأبيض غربي النيل في طرف الحاجر المطل على المزدرع فيما يقابل أخميم — وهو دير بو شنودة؛ وصفه ابن فضل الله العمري بعينه إذ مرّ به صحبة السلطان: يجري من النيل خليج طويل ينتهي إلى ملقة متسعة شرقي الدير، ويطل عليها رابية من فضلات الترع، ولا يُرى مثل نزاهته في الشتاء والربيع {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 374-375}.",
  "en": "The great white-built monastery west of the Nile opposite Akhmim — Shenoute's house — which al-Umari saw himself riding with the sultan: a long Nile canal ends at a broad pool east of it, a mound of canal-spoil overlooks the water, and in winter and spring its beauty, he says, has no peer {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 374-375}."
 },
 "stub": false,
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  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 374-375",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-6"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umari-masalik-1924"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الدير الأبيض دير بُني بالحجر الأبيض، ومنه سُمّي. يقع غربي النيل في طرف الحاجر المطل على المزدرع، قبالة أخميم ([[place/akhmim|أخميم]])، وهو دير بو شنودة. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 374-375}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصف العمري",
     "markdown": "مرّ به ابن فضل الله العمري في صحبة السلطان ووصفه. يجري من النيل خليج طويل ينتهي إلى ملقة متسعة شرقي الدير، وتطل عليها رابية من فضلات الترع. ويقول إنه لم ير مثل نزاهته في الشتاء والربيع. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 374-375}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/dayr-al-abyad",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The White Monastery is a monastery built of white stone, which gave it its name. It lies west of the Nile, at the edge of the cliff overlooking the cultivated land, opposite Akhmim ([[place/akhmim|Akhmim]]), and it is the monastery of Bu Shenouda. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 374-375}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Al-Umari's description",
     "markdown": "Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari passed by it in the company of the sultan and described it. A long canal flows from the Nile and ends in a wide basin east of the monastery, overlooked by a hill of silt from the canals. He says he had never seen anything as pleasant in winter and spring. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 374-375}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/dayr-al-abyad",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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   "to": "place/akhmim",
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   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/umari-masalik-1924"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/akhmim"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}