{
 "id": "concept/mahmal",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "mahmal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المحمل",
  "en": "Mahmal"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "محفة فارغة مزخرفة كانت تحمل على جمل في قافلة الحج ترمز إلى الرعاية السلطانية للحجاز؛ أشهرها المحمل المصري حتى أواسط القرن العشرين.",
  "en": "An ornate empty litter borne on a camel in the Hajj caravan symbolising sovereign care for the Hijaz; the Egyptian mahmal lasted until the mid-20th century."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "sacred-space-and-pilgrimage",
  "arts-of-the-book"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "art_form",
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q6735263"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), arts lane; via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محفة فارغة مزخرفة كانت تحمل على جمل في قافلة الحج ترمز إلى الرعاية السلطانية للحجاز؛ أشهرها المحمل المصري حتى أواسط القرن العشرين. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/mahmal",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "An empty, decorated litter carried on a camel in the pilgrimage caravan, symbolising the sovereign's care for the Hijaz. The best known was the Egyptian mahmal until the middle of the twentieth century. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/mahmal",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "object/kiswa",
  "building/al-qullays",
  "building/bir-zamzam",
  "building/dar-al-nadwa",
  "building/dhu-al-khalasa",
  "building/kaaba",
  "concept/arabesque",
  "concept/girih"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}