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 "label": {
  "ar": "محمد الحميري صاحب مرباط",
  "en": "Mahmud al-Himyari of Mirbat"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "محمود بن محمد الحميري صاحب مرباط وظفار وساحل حضرموت؛ بدأ بمركب يكريه في البحر للتجار ثم وزر لصاحب مرباط وفيه كرم وشجاعة وحسن سيرة، فلما توفي صاحبها ملك المدينة وأطاعه الناس محبة له، فلما كان سنة تسع عشرة وستمائة خرب مرباط وظفار وبنى مدينة جديدة على ساحل البحر قرب مرباط عند عين عذبة كبيرة أجراها إليها وعمل عليها سوراً وخندقاً وسماها الأحمدية، وكان يحب الشعر ويكثر الجائزة عليه {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 297}.",
  "en": "From boat-hirer to lord of the Dhofar coast — Mahmud al-Himyari served as vizier to Mirbat's ruler, inherited the city by popular affection for his generosity, and in 619 rebuilt it as the walled al-Ahmadiyya beside a great freshwater spring; a lavish patron of poets {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 297}."
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  "arabia"
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  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
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  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "ruler",
   "vizier"
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الكامل في التاريخ — ابن الأثير، مسح kamilt00_201908، ص 297",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمود بن محمد الحميري صاحب مرباط وظفار وساحل حضرموت. يذكر ابن الأثير أنه بدأ بمركب يكريه في البحر للتجار، ثم وزر لصاحب مرباط، وفيه كرم وشجاعة وحسن سيرة. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.297}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم",
     "markdown": "لما توفي صاحب مرباط ملك المدينة، وأطاعه الناس محبة له. وفي سنة 619هـ خرّب مرباط وظفار، وبنى مدينة جديدة على ساحل البحر قرب مرباط عند عين عذبة كبيرة أجراها إليها. وأقام عليها سوراً وخندقاً وسماها الأحمدية. وكان يحب الشعر ويكثر الجائزة عليه. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.297}"
    }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Mahmud ibn Muhammad al-Himyari, lord of Mirbat, Zafar and the Hadhramaut coast. Ibn al-Athir says that he began with a ship he hired out at sea to merchants, then became vizier to the lord of Mirbat, and that he had generosity, courage and good conduct. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.297}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His rule",
     "markdown": "When the lord of Mirbat died, he took the city, and the people obeyed him for love of him. In 619 AH he laid waste Mirbat and Zafar, and built a new city on the coast near Mirbat, at a great sweet spring that he channelled to it. He put a wall and a ditch around it, and called it al-Ahmadiyya. He loved poetry and gave generously to poets. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.297}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/mahmud-al-himyari-mirbat",
    "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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