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 "id": "person/majnun-bani-amir",
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 "slug": "majnun-bani-amir",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مجنون بني عامر",
  "en": "Majnun of Banu 'Amir"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "قيس بن الملوح، لقيه أبو الهياج بن سابق النجدي في فلاة بني عامر فكان يفر منه كما تفر الوحش حتى أنس وأنشده قيس بن ذريح فبكى وقال أنا والله أشعر منه وأنشأ أبى القلب إلا حبها عامرية لها كنية عمرو وليس لها عمرو، وكان أبوه وأهله قوماً أبراراً به يوضع له الطعام والثياب بحيث يراها {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 540-541}.",
  "en": "Qays ibn al-Mulawwah met alive in the 'Amir wastes — 'I am the better poet' he said, then recited his Layla verse {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 540-541}."
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  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/دار التحرير) ج2 ص 540–541",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-100"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "قيس بن الملوح، المعروف بمجنون بني عامر. يروي المسعودي أن أبا الهياج بن سابق النجدي لقيه في فلاة بني عامر. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.540-541}\n\nكان يفر منه كما تفر الوحش حتى أنس به. وأنشده قيس بن ذريح شعراً فبكى وقال إنه أشعر منه، وأنشأ بيتاً في حب عامرية. وكان أبوه وأهله قوماً أبراراً به، يوضع له الطعام والثياب بحيث يراها. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.540-541}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/majnun-bani-amir",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Qays ibn al-Mulawwah, known as Majnun Bani Amir (the madman of the Banu Amir). Al-Mas'udi relates that Abu al-Hayyaj ibn Sabiq al-Najdi met him in the desert of the Banu Amir. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.540-541}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The encounter",
     "markdown": "He used to flee from him as wild beasts flee, until he grew used to him. Qays ibn Dhurayh recited poetry to him, and he wept and said that he was a better poet than him, and he composed a verse on love for a woman of the Banu Amir. His father and his family were righteous people toward him: food and clothing were placed for him where he could see them. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.540-541}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/majnun-bani-amir",
    "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"
 }
}