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 "class": "person",
 "slug": "sharaf-al-dawla",
 "label": {
  "ar": "شرف الدولة بن ركن الدولة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ابن ركن الدولة، قصد أخاه صمصام الدولة سنة ست وسبعين فانتصر عليه وكحله ومال العسكر إليه وقدم بغداد وركب الطائع إليه يهنئه بالبلاد وعهد إليه بالسلطنة وتوجه وقرئ عهده والطائع يسمع، وأمر سنة ثمان وسبعين برصد الكواكب السبعة في مسيرها كما فعل المأمون، ومات سنة تسع وسبعين وعهد إلى أخيه أبي نصر {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 631}.",
  "en": "Rukn al-Dawla's son; he beat and blinded his brother Samsam al-Dawla in 376, took Baghdad, was invested and crowned by a visiting al-Ta'i' — his deed read in the caliph's hearing — ordered a Ma'mun-like observation of the seven planets in 378, and died in 379 leaving it to his brother Abu Nasr {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 631}."
 },
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  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
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 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 626–636",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-37"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ابن ركن الدولة. يذكر السيوطي أنه قصد أخاه صمصام الدولة سنة 376هـ فانتصر عليه وكحله، ومال العسكر إليه. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.631}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بغداد",
     "markdown": "قدم بغداد، وركب الطائع إليه يهنئه بالبلاد، وعهد إليه بالسلطنة وتوجه، وقرئ عهده والطائع يسمع. وأمر سنة 378هـ برصد الكواكب السبعة في مسيرها كما فعل المأمون. ومات سنة 379هـ وعهد إلى أخيه أبي نصر. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.631}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sharaf-al-dawla",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Son of Rukn al-Dawla. al-Suyuti reports that in the year 376 AH he marched against his brother Samsam al-Dawla, defeated him and blinded him, and the army inclined to him {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.631}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Baghdad",
     "markdown": "He came to Baghdad, and al-Ta'i rode out to him to congratulate him on the lands. He was given the sultanate by investiture, and then departed. His investiture was read out while al-Ta'i listened. In the year 378 AH he ordered the observation of the seven planets in their courses, as al-Ma'mun had done. He died in the year 379 AH and left the succession to his brother Abu Nasr {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.631}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sharaf-al-dawla",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}