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 "id": "person/taabbata-sharran",
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 "label": {
  "ar": "تأبط شراً",
  "en": "Ta'abbata Sharran"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الشاعر الفتاك صاحب القول المشهور في الغول فأصبحت والغول لي جارة، أورده المسعودي في باب أخبار العرب في الغيلان وتغولها {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 469}.، وقال لخاله الشنفرى حين سأله عن قتيل قتله كيف كانت قصته ألجمته عضباً فسالت نفسه سكباً، يستشهد به المسعودي في باب مذاهب الجاهلية في النفوس {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 468}",
  "en": "The outlaw-poet whose ghul verses — 'I awoke and the ghul was my neighbour' — head al-Mas'udi's chapter on the Arabs' ghul lore {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 469}."
 },
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  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
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  "humour-and-everyday-life"
 ],
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  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/الشركة العالمية) ج1 ص 469",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-6"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "تأبط شراً شاعر فتّاك، اشتهر بقوله في الغول: «فأصبحت والغول لي جارة». {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.469}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عند المسعودي",
     "markdown": "أورد المسعودي قوله هذا في باب أخبار العرب في الغيلان وتغولها. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.469}\n\nويستشهد به في باب مذاهب الجاهلية في النفوس. سأله خاله الشنفرى عن قتيل قتله، فقال: «ألجمته عضباً فسالت نفسه سكباً». {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.468}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/taabbata-sharran",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ta'abbata Sharran, a formidable poet, known for his line about the ghoul: \"So I awoke, with the ghoul as my neighbour\" {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.469}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In al-Mas'udi",
     "markdown": "al-Mas'udi cites this line in the section on the reports of the Arabs about ghouls and their transformations {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.469}.\n\nHe is also cited in the section on the pre-Islamic beliefs about souls. His maternal uncle al-Shanfara asked him about a man he had killed, and he said: \"I bridled him with a sword, and his soul flowed like water\" {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.468}."
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/taabbata-sharran",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "concept/jahili-virtues",
  "concept/sacred-livestock-jahiliyya",
  "person/al-mughira-ibn-shuba",
  "person/hatim-al-tai",
  "screen/al-muslimun-qadimun-2013",
  "screen/al-qiddis-al-majhul-2019",
  "screen/arbaa-asud-2010",
  "screen/baraka-yuqaabil-baraka-2016"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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