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  "ar": "حافظ قسم الخزف والإثنوغرافيا في المتحف البريطاني، كتب «دليل الخزف الإسلامي في الشرق الأدنى» (1932) {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 6} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9}.",
  "en": "Keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum, author of A Guide to the Islamic Pottery of the Near East (1932) {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 6} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9}.",
  "ur": "برٹش میوزیم کے شعبۂ ظروف و نسلیات کے نگران، «مشرقِ قریب کے اسلامی ظروف کی رہنما کتاب» (1932ء) کے مصنف {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 6} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9}۔"
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     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ر. ل. هوبسون، الحامل لوسام «C.B.»، حافظ قسم الخزف والإثنوغرافيا في المتحف البريطاني، كتب دليل مجموعة الخزف الإسلامي في الشرق الأدنى، ووقّع مقدمته في فبراير 1932. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 6} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9} ويشكر فيها أ. س. فولتون من قسم الكتب المطبوعة والمخطوطات الشرقية على تصحيح كتابة الأسماء الشرقية بالحروف اللاتينية. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9}"
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     "heading": "آراؤه",
     "markdown": "- يرى أن التسمية في الخزف كثيرًا ما كانت متعجلة، فقبل الجمهور أول اقتراح معقول وكرّسه الاستعمال، ومثّل لذلك بتسمية «الرودسي» التي يقول إنها طُردت من المتاحف والكتب العلمية وبقيت في قاعات المزاد والمتاجر. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 131}\n- يرفض نسبة مجموعة من الخزف التركي المرسوم بالأزرق إلى كوتاهية لمجرد نقش يذكر أحد أعيانها، لأنه لا يعرف تقليد خزف في كوتاهية قبل القرن السابع عشر، وينقلها إلى إزنيق. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 130} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 133}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "R. L. Hobson, C.B., Keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum, wrote the guide to its Near Eastern Islamic pottery and signed its preface in February 1932. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 6} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9} In it he thanks A. S. Fulton of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts for correcting the romanisation of Eastern names. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9}"
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     "heading": "His views",
     "markdown": "- He holds that ceramic nomenclature has too often been hasty, the first plausible suggestion being accepted by an uncritical public and consecrated by usage, and gives \"Rhodian\" as an example, a name he says was banished from museums and scientific books but still used in salerooms and shops. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 131}\n- He rejects assigning a group of blue-painted Turkish wares to Kutahya merely because an inscription names one of its dignitaries, since he knows of no pottery tradition there before the seventeenth century, and moves them to Iznik. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 130} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 133}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "آر ایل ہوبسن، سی بی، برٹش میوزیم کے شعبۂ ظروف و نسلیات کے نگران تھے؛ انہوں نے وہاں کے مشرقِ قریب کے اسلامی ظروف کی رہنما کتاب لکھی اور فروری 1932ء میں اس کے پیش لفظ پر دستخط کیے۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 6} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9} اس میں وہ مشرقی مطبوعات و مخطوطات کے شعبے کے اے ایس فلٹن کا مشرقی ناموں کی رومن املا درست کرنے پر شکریہ ادا کرتے ہیں۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 9}"
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     "heading": "ان کی آرا",
     "markdown": "- ان کے نزدیک ظروف کی نام گذاری اکثر جلد بازی میں ہوئی، پہلی معقول تجویز کو بے تنقید عوام نے قبول کر کے رواج سے پکا کر دیا؛ اس کی مثال وہ «رودسی» دیتے ہیں، جو ان کے بقول عجائب گھروں اور علمی کتابوں سے نکال دیا گیا مگر نیلام گھروں اور دکانوں میں اب بھی چلتا ہے۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 131}\n- وہ نیلے نقش والے ترکی ظروف کے ایک گروہ کو محض اس لیے کوتاہیہ سے منسوب کرنا رد کرتے ہیں کہ ایک کتبے میں وہاں کے ایک معزز کا نام ہے، کیونکہ انہیں سترھویں صدی سے پہلے وہاں ظروف سازی کی کسی روایت کا علم نہیں، اور انہیں ازنیق کی طرف منتقل کرتے ہیں۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 130} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 133}"
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