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 "label": {
  "ar": "خزانة كتب قبرص إلى بغداد",
  "en": "The Cyprus library comes to Baghdad"
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  "ar": "لما هادن المأمون صاحب قبرص طلب منه خزانة كتب اليونان المجموعة عندهم في بيت لا يظهر عليه أحد، فأرسلها إليه وجعل سهل بن هارون خازناً لها {cite:duha-islam p. 426-427}.",
  "en": "When al-Maʾmūn made a truce with the lord of Cyprus he asked for the island's collected Greek library — kept in a house no one had opened — and it was sent to him, Sahl ibn Hārūn made its keeper {cite:duha-islam p. 426-427}.",
  "ur": "جب مامون نے قبرص کے حاکم سے صلح کی تو اس نے جزیرے کی جمع کردہ یونانی کتب خانہ — جو ایک ایسے گھر میں بند تھا جسے کوئی نہیں کھولتا تھا — مانگا؛ وہ بھیجا گیا اور سہل ابن ہارون اس کا خازن بنا {cite:duha-islam p. 426-427}."
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