{
 "id": "person/sinnimar",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "sinnimar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "سِنِمَّار",
  "en": "Sinnimar"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "البناء الذي شيّد الخورنق والسدير للنعمان بن امرئ القيس وكملهما في عشرين سنة؛ لما وقف عليه النعمان واستجاده قال له سنمار: «لو شئت أن أجعله يدور مع الشمس لفعلت»، فأمر النعمان بطرحه من أعلى شرفاته فضُرب به المثل: «جزاه جزاء سنمار» {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 230}.",
  "en": "The builder who raised al-Khawarnaq and al-Sadir for al-Nu'man ibn Imri' al-Qays over twenty years; when the king marvelled and feared him, Sinnimar boasted 'had I wished, I could have made it turn with the sun' — and was thrown from its highest balcony, begetting the proverb 'he was repaid Sinnimar's reward' {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 230}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people",
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 230",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umari-masalik-1924"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "سنمّار بنّاء ذكره العمري في «مسالك الأبصار». شيّد [[place/al-khawarnaq|الخورنق]] والسدير للنعمان بن امرئ القيس، وأتمّهما في عشرين سنة. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.230}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مثل سنمّار",
     "markdown": "يروي العمري أن النعمان وقف على البناء فاستجاده، فقال له سنمّار: لو شئت أن أجعله يدور مع الشمس لفعلت. فأمر النعمان بطرحه من أعلى شرفاته، فصار يُضرب به المثل: «جزاه جزاء سنمّار». وصلته بـ[[person/al-numan-ibn-imri-al-qays|النعمان بن امرئ القيس]] مذكورة في المصدر نفسه. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.230}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sinnimar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Sinnimar, a builder whom al-Umari mentions in \"Masalik al-Absar\". He built [[place/al-khawarnaq|al-Khawarnaq]] and al-Sadir for al-Nu'man ibn Imri' al-Qays, and completed them in twenty years {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.230}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The saying of Sinnimar",
     "markdown": "al-Umari reports that al-Nu'man stood over the building and admired it. Sinnimar said to him: \"If I wished, I could make it turn with the sun, I would do it.\" Al-Nu'man ordered him thrown from the top of its battlements, and so he became a proverb: \"He was repaid the reward of Sinnimar\". His relation with [[person/al-numan-ibn-imri-al-qays|al-Nu'man ibn Imri' al-Qays]] is mentioned in the same source {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.230}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sinnimar",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/al-khawarnaq",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "بناه مع السدير للنعمان في عشرين سنة.",
   "sources": [
    "source/umari-masalik-1924"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/al-numan-ibn-imri-al-qays",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "صاحبه وقاتله على المشهور.",
   "sources": [
    "source/umari-masalik-1924"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/al-numan-ibn-imri-al-qays",
  "place/al-khawarnaq"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}