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 "id": "person/kulthum-al-attabi",
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 "slug": "kulthum-al-attabi",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كلثوم العتابي",
  "en": "Kulthum al-'Attabi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من أرض جند قنسرين والعواصم سكن الرقة، من العلم والأدب والفصاحة وبراعة المكاتبة على ما لم يكن كثير من أهل عصره، أقنع يحيى بن أكثم أن يعلم المأمون بمكانه حين قال لست بحاجب فقال ذو الفضل معوان ولكل شيء زكاة وزكاة الجاه بذله للمستعين، فلما أغراه المأمون بإسحاق الموصلي وقال اسمي كل بصل أجابه أما النسبة فقد عرفت وأما الاسم فمنكر ما كل بصل من الأسماء فقال إسحاق وما كلثوم والبصل أطيب من الثوم، ومن كلامه كاتب الرجل لسانه وحاجبه وجهه وجليسه كله {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 408-410}.",
  "en": "The Raqqa litterateur whose 'zakat of rank is spending it on the needy' won him al-Ma'mun's majlis — and whose 'what is Kul-Basl? well, what is Kulthum?' bested Ishaq al-Mawsili {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 408-410}."
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 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/دار التحرير) ج2 ص 408–410",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-85"
  },
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   "review": "draft",
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   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "سكن الرقة، وأصله من أرض جند قنسرين والعواصم. وصفه المسعودي بالعلم والأدب والفصاحة وبراعة المكاتبة على ما لم يكن كثير من أهل عصره. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.408-410}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مع المأمون",
     "markdown": "أقنع يحيى بن أكثم أن يعلم المأمون بمكانه. ونقل المسعودي من كلامه أن زكاة الجاه بذله للمستعين. وفي مجلس المأمون جرت بينه وبين [[person/ishaq-al-mawsili|إسحاق الموصلي]] مداعبة في الاسم، فأجابه كلثوم بجواب أعجب الحاضرين بحسب الرواية. ومن كلامه: كاتب الرجل لسانه، وحاجبه وجهه، وجليسه كله. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.408-410}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/kulthum-al-attabi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Kulthum al-Attabi settled in Raqqa, and his origin is in the land of the Jund of Qinnasrin and the Awasim. Al-Mas'udi describes him as learned, cultured and eloquent, and as having a skill in correspondence that few of his contemporaries had. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.408-410}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "With al-Ma'mun",
     "markdown": "He persuaded Yahya ibn Aktham to let al-Ma'mun know where he was. Al-Mas'udi relates from his words that the alms of prestige is to spend it on al-Musta'in. At al-Ma'mun's assembly a joke about his name passed between him and [[person/ishaq-al-mawsili|Ishaq al-Mawsili]], and according to the report Kulthum answered him with a reply that delighted those present. One of his sayings: \"A man's secretary is his tongue, his chamberlain is his face, and his companion is all of him.\" {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.408-410}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/kulthum-al-attabi",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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