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 "label": {
  "ar": "جامع سيدي أبي مدين (العباد، تلمسان)",
  "en": "Mosque of Sidi Bou Medine, Tlemcen",
  "ur": "مسجد سیدی ابو مدین (تلمسان)"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "جامع على نحو ميل جنوب شرقي تلمسان، يؤرخه نيوكومب بسنة 1337م، مدخله الرئيس مكسو بفسيفساء الخزف وأبوابه من خشب الأرز المغشّى بالبرونز المطروق {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28}.",
  "en": "A mosque about a mile south-east of Tlemcen, dated by Newcomb to 1337, its main portal faced with faience mosaic and its cedar doors sheathed in repoussé bronze {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28}."
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 "themes": [
  "architecture",
  "mosques",
  "spirituality-and-sufism"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1337.001375798271,
  "latest": 1338.00071185579
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   "edtf": "1337",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Newcomb p. 28: founded in 1337 by 'Ali V of Tlemcen, known in history as the black sultan'; his identification of the founder is recorded as given and not linked"
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   "edtf": "1337",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "note": "Newcomb p. 28: founded in 1337 by 'Ali V of Tlemcen, known in history as the black sultan'; his identification of the founder is recorded as given and not linked"
  },
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Newcomb 1929, printed pp. 28",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جامع سيدي أبي مدين على نحو ميل جنوب شرقي [[place/tlemcen|تلمسان]]، يعده [[person/rexford-newcomb|نيوكومب]] نموذجاً جميلاً للفن المغربي، ويذكر أنه أسس سنة 1337م على يد سلطان يسميه «علياً الخامس» المعروف بالسلطان الأسود. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زخرفته",
     "markdown": "مدخله الرئيس مزين بفسيفساء الخزف، ويتكرر عقده المدبب على هيئة حدوة الفرس في البوائك الدقيقة التي تحمل السقف، وباب جانبي رُمّم في القرن الثامن عشر مكسو كله بالبلاط. وأبوابه من خشب الأرز مغشّاة بالبرونز المطروق بنقش هندسي متشابك، يقارنها نيوكومب بأبواب غيبرتي في معمودية فلورنسا. ونقل عن سالادان أن شبه زخارفه بالأندلس يُفسَّر بهجرة مسلمي قرطبة وإشبيلية إلى شمال أفريقيا بعد سقوطهما سنة 1236م و1248م، وثمة تقليد بأن فسيفساءه جاءت من المغرب الأقصى. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929, p. 28"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The mosque of Sidi Bou Medine stands about a mile south-east of [[place/tlemcen|Tlemcen]]. [[person/rexford-newcomb|Newcomb]] calls it a very beautiful specimen of Moorish art and says it was founded in 1337 by a ruler he names \"Ali V of Tlemcen, known in history as the black sultan\". {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Decoration",
     "markdown": "The main entrance is decorated with faience mosaic, and its pointed horseshoe arch is echoed in the lacelike arcades carrying the roof; a side doorway, restored in the eighteenth century, is entirely plated with tiles. The cedar doors are covered with repoussé bronze in a geometric interlace, which Newcomb compares with Ghiberti's doors at the Florence baptistery. He quotes Saladin's view that the likeness of its ornament to Spanish work is explained by the exodus of Andalusian Muslims from Cordoba and Seville after their fall in 1236 and 1248, and notes a tradition that the tile mosaics came from Morocco. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28}"
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   "updated": "2026-11-04"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "مسجد سیدی ابو مدین [[place/tlemcen|تلمسان]] سے تقریباً ایک میل جنوب مشرق میں ہے۔ [[person/rexford-newcomb|نیوکومب]] اسے مغربی فن کا نہایت خوبصورت نمونہ کہتے ہیں اور لکھتے ہیں کہ اس کی بنیاد 1337ء میں ایک حکمران نے رکھی جسے وہ «تلمسان کا علی پنجم، جو تاریخ میں سیاہ سلطان کہلاتا ہے» کہتے ہیں۔ {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28}"
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    {
     "heading": "آرائش",
     "markdown": "مرکزی دروازہ خزفی موزیک سے آراستہ ہے، اور اس کی نوکیلی نعل نما محراب چھت اٹھانے والی نازک محرابوں میں دہرائی گئی ہے؛ ایک جانبی دروازہ، جو اٹھارہویں صدی میں بحال ہوا، پورا ٹائلوں سے ڈھکا ہے۔ دیودار کے دروازوں پر ہندسی گندھے نقش والا ابھرا ہوا کانسی چڑھا ہے، جن کا موازنہ نیوکومب فلورنس کے بپتسمہ خانے پر غیبرتی کے دروازوں سے کرتے ہیں۔ وہ سالادین کی یہ رائے نقل کرتے ہیں کہ اس کی آرائش کی اندلسی مشابہت 1236ء اور 1248ء میں قرطبہ اور اشبیلیہ کے سقوط کے بعد وہاں کے مسلمانوں کی شمالی افریقہ ہجرت سے ہے، اور ایک روایت کا ذکر کرتے ہیں کہ اس کا موزیک مراکش سے آیا۔ {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28}"
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