{
 "id": "concept/kawsaj",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "kawsaj",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الكوسج",
  "en": "The Kawsaj"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "رجل يخرج أول يوم آذرماه راكباً بغاله بالعراق وأرض فارس لا يعرف ذلك إلا بهما دون الشام والجزيرة ومصر واليمن، يطعم مدة من الأيام الجوز والثوم واللحم السمين وما عداها من الأطعمة الحارة والأشربة المسخنة الدافعة للبرد فيظهر طارداً للبرد فيصب عليه الماء البارد فلا يجد لذلك شيئاً من ألمه ويصيح بالفارسية كرما كرما يعني الحر الحر، وهو وقت عيد الأعاجم يطربون فيه ويظهرون السرور {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 507}.",
  "en": "The mule-rider of Adharmah's first day in Iraq and Fars — gorged for days on walnuts, garlic and fat meats, he is doused with cold water unfazed and cries 'garma garma' (warm, warm) in Persian; a Persian festival joy unknown in Syria, Egypt or Yemen {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 507}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "living"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "sacred-time",
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "social",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/الشركة العالمية) ج1 ص 507",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-19"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الكوسج عند المسعودي رجل يخرج أول يوم من آذرماه راكباً بغلاً، وذلك في العراق وأرض فارس دون الشام والجزيرة ومصر واليمن. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 507}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الطقس",
     "markdown": "يذكر أنه يطعم أياماً الجوز والثوم واللحم السمين والأطعمة الحارة والأشربة المسخنة. فيظهر طارداً للبرد، ثم يصب عليه الماء البارد فلا يجد لذلك ألماً. ويصيح بالفارسية «كرما كرما»، ومعناها الحر الحر. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 507}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المناسبة",
     "markdown": "يقول المسعودي إن ذلك وقت عيد الأعاجم، يطربون فيه ويظهرون السرور. وهو عادة فارسية لا شأن لها بالعبادة في الإسلام. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 507}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/kawsaj",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The *kawsaj*, according to al-Masudi, is a man who comes out on the first day of Adharmah riding a mule, in Iraq and the land of Persia, but not in Syria, the Jazira, Egypt, or Yemen. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 507}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The practice",
     "markdown": "He reports that for some days people eat walnuts, garlic, fatty meat, hot foods, and heated drinks. The kawsaj appears as something that drives away the cold; then cold water is poured over him and he feels no pain. He cries out in Persian \"*kurma kurma*,\" which means \"hot, hot.\" {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 507}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The occasion",
     "markdown": "Al-Masudi says that this is the time of the festival of the non-Arabs, in which they rejoice and show gladness. It is a Persian custom with no bearing on worship in Islam. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 507}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/kawsaj",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/laylat-al-ghatas",
  "concept/mihragan",
  "concept/nasi",
  "concept/nayruz",
  "practice/mawlid-al-nabi",
  "concept/abjad-kings-etymology",
  "concept/anwa",
  "concept/asma-al-ayyam-wal-shuhur-jahiliyya"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}