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 "id": "concept/adillat-al-qibla",
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 "slug": "adillat-al-qibla",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أدلة القبلة: النجوم والرياح والجبال والأنهار",
  "en": "Qibla-finding by stars, winds, mountains and rivers"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "خصص ابن فضل الله العمري باباً رابعاً من مسالك الأبصار للقبلة والأدلة عليها: الاستدلال بالنجوم، فبالرياح، فبالجبال، فبالأنهار — الطرق التي اعتمدها أهل الأمصار قبل الإنشاءات الفلكية الدقيقة لضبط جهة الكعبة {cite:umari-masalik-1924 pp. 11, 128-129}.",
  "en": "Al-Umari devotes the fourth gate of Masalik al-Absar to the qibla and its proofs: determination by stars, then winds, then mountains, then rivers — the field methods by which the lands' people fixed the Kaaba's bearing before precision astronomy {cite:umari-masalik-1924 pp. 11, 128-129}."
 },
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  "levant-iraq"
 ],
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  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
 ],
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "astronomy-and-timekeeping"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "scientific",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) باب القبلة",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-1"
  },
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  "status": {
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   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "خصص ابن فضل الله العمري باباً رابعاً من «مسالك الأبصار» للقبلة والأدلة عليها. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 pp. 11, 128-129}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "طرق الاستدلال",
     "markdown": "رتّب العمري الاستدلال على جهة الكعبة على أربعة أدلة: النجوم، ثم الرياح، ثم الجبال، ثم الأنهار. ويصفها بأنها الطرق التي اعتمدها أهل الأمصار قبل الإنشاءات الفلكية الدقيقة. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 pp. 11, 128-129}\n\nتفاصيل كل دليل غير مسجلة هنا، وتحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/adillat-al-qibla",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari devoted a fourth chapter of his *Masalik al-absar* to the qibla and the signs by which it is known. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 pp. 11, 128-129}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Methods of orientation",
     "markdown": "Al-Umari arranges the determination of the direction of the Ka'ba by four signs: the stars, then the winds, then the mountains, then the rivers. He describes them as the methods relied on by the people of the cities before precise astronomical constructions. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 pp. 11, 128-129}\n\nThe details of each sign are not recorded here and would need a further source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/adillat-al-qibla",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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 "related": [
  "concept/al-aqalim-al-saba",
  "concept/kurawiyyat-al-ard",
  "concept/layali-al-qamar",
  "concept/saltanat-al-kawakib",
  "person/abu-al-wafa-al-buzjani",
  "person/al-abhari-athir-al-din",
  "person/al-badi-al-astarlabi",
  "person/al-balkhi-abu-mashar-jafar-ibn-muhammad"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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