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 "id": "person/ridwan-al-ilj",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "ridwan-al-ilj",
 "label": {
  "ar": "رضوان العلج حاجب عبد الملك",
  "en": "Ridwan al-'Ilj, Abd al-Malik's chamberlain"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "حاجب السلطان عبد الملك المعتصم بالله؛ لم يعلم بموت سيده يوم وادي المخازن إلا هو وأحمد المنصور، فصار يقول للجند: «السلطان يأمر فلاناً أن يذهب إلى موضع كذا، وفلاناً يلزم الراية، وفلاناً يتقدم وفلاناً يتأخر» — كاتمين الأمر حتى تم النصر {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 265}.",
  "en": "Sultan Abd al-Malik's chamberlain; he and Ahmad al-Mansur alone knew of his master's death on the day of Wadi al-Makhazin, and he kept telling the troops, 'the sultan orders so-and-so to that spot, so-and-so to hold the banner, so-and-so forward, so-and-so back' — concealing it until victory was complete {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 265}."
 },
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 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
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  "period/gunpowder-empires"
 ],
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
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  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "رضوان العلج"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "official"
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الدولة العثمانية لعلي محمد الصلابي (ط1 1421) ص 265",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "model": "SWE-2 Medium",
   "run": "salabi-uthmani-batch14"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "حاجب السلطان [[person/abd-al-malik-al-sadi|عبد الملك المعتصم بالله]] {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 265}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الكتمان",
     "markdown": "لم يعلم بموت سيده يوم وادي المخازن إلا هو وأحمد المنصور، فصار يبلغ الجند: «السلطان يأمر فلاناً أن يذهب إلى موضع كذا، وفلاناً يلزم الراية، وفلاناً يتقدم وفلاناً يتأخر» — حتى تم النصر {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 265}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ridwan-al-ilj",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Chamberlain of Sultan [[person/abd-al-malik-al-sadi|Abd al-Malik]] {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 265}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The concealment",
     "markdown": "Only he and Ahmad al-Mansur knew of his master's death at Wadi al-Makhazin; he kept telling the troops, 'the sultan orders so-and-so to that spot, so-and-so to hold the banner, so-and-so forward, so-and-so back' — until victory was complete {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 265}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ridwan-al-ilj",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "سلطان [[person/abd-al-malik-al-sadi|عبد الملک معتصم باللہ]] کا حاجب {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 265}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "چھپانا",
     "markdown": "وادی المخازن کے دن اس کے آقا کی موت کی خبر صرف اسے اور احمد المنصور کو تھی؛ وہ فوج سے کہتا رہا: «سلطان حکم دیتا ہے کہ فلاں وہاں جائے، فلاں نشان سنبھالے، فلاں آگے بڑھے، فلاں پیچھے رہے» — یہاں تک کہ فتح ہوئی {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 265}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ridwan-al-ilj",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
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  {
   "to": "person/abd-al-malik-al-sadi",
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 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-wadi-al-makhazin-1578",
  "person/abu-al-mahasin-yusuf-al-fasi",
  "person/ahmad-al-mansur-al-sadi",
  "person/muhammad-al-shaykh-al-sadi",
  "person/muhammad-ii-mutawakkil-saadi",
  "person/sebastian-i-portugal",
  "polity/ottoman-empire",
  "person/abd-al-malik-al-sadi"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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