{
 "id": "building/haykal-al-sin",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "haykal-al-sin",
 "label": {
  "ar": "هيكل أقاصي الصين",
  "en": "the temple of farthest China"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "هيكل في أقاصي الصين وصفه أبو عبيد البكري: بيت مدور له ستور وأبواب في داخله قبة مسبعة عظيمة البنيان، وبه بئر مسبعة الرأس متى أكبّ إنسان على رأسها تهور على رأسه فيها، وعلى رأسها شبه طوق مكتوب بقلم السندهند أنها تؤدي إلى مخزن الكتب الأولى وتاريخ الدنيا وعلوم السماء وإلى خزائن رغائب هذا العالم {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 226}.",
  "en": "A temple in farthest China as Abu Ubayd al-Bakri describes: a round curtained house holding a vast seven-sided dome and a seven-mouthed well that swallows whoever leans over it; on its rim, in the Sindhind script, an inscription declares it leads to the storehouse of the first books, the history of the world, the sciences of heaven, and the treasuries of this world's marvels {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 226}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "china-east-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 226",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-5"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umari-masalik-1924"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "هيكل في أقاصي الصين، وصفه أبو عبيد البكري فيما ينقله ابن فضل الله العمري. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 226}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوصف",
     "markdown": "هو بيت مدور له ستور وأبواب. في داخله قبة مسبعة عظيمة البنيان. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 226}\n\nوفيه بئر مسبعة الرأس، يقول الوصف إن من أكبّ على رأسها تهور فيها. وعلى رأسها شبه طوق مكتوب بقلم السندهند، يذكر أنها تؤدي إلى مخزن الكتب الأولى وتاريخ الدنيا وعلوم السماء وخزائن رغائب هذا العالم. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 226}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما يحتاج إلى مصدر",
     "markdown": "موضع الهيكل بالتحديد وتاريخه وما يؤيد هذا الوصف: يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/haykal-al-sin",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A temple at the far end of China, described by Abu Ubayd al-Bakri as reported by Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 226}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Description",
     "markdown": "It is a round house with curtains and doors. Inside it is a great seven-sided dome. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 226}\n\nIn it is a well with a seven-sided mouth. The description says that whoever bends over its mouth will be drawn into it. Over its mouth is a kind of collar, written in Sindhi script, which says that it leads to the store of the first books, the history of the world, the sciences of the heavens and the treasuries of all the desires of this world. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 226}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What needs a source",
     "markdown": "The exact site of the temple, its date, and anything that supports this description: an additional source is needed."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/haykal-al-sin",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}