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 "id": "person/ubaydallah-ibn-khurdadhbih",
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 "slug": "ubaydallah-ibn-khurdadhbih",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عبيد الله بن خرداذبه",
  "en": "Ubaydallah ibn Khurdadhbih"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "نديم المعتمد وصاحب الكتب في المسالك والممالك واللهو والملاهي، ذكر أنه دخل على المعتمد فسأله عن أول من اتخذ العود فأخبره بأخبار لمك وابنه الذي علقه بشجرة حتى صنع من خشب على صورته عوداً فصدره كالفخذ وعنقه كالساق ورأسه كالقدم وملاويه كالأصابع وأوتاره كالعروق {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 588}.",
  "en": "Al-Mu'tamid's boon-companion and author of al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik, who narrated to him the oud's origin in Lamak's dead son {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 588}."
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  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي ج2 ص 588",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-106"
  },
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   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "نديم المعتمد وصاحب كتب في المسالك والممالك واللهو والملاهي. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.588}\n\nينقل المسعودي أنه دخل على المعتمد فسأله عن أول من اتخذ العود، فأخبره بخبر لمك وابنه الذي علّقه بشجرة، حتى صنع عوداً من خشب على صورته. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.588}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Boon-companion of al-Mu'tamid, and the author of books on the routes and kingdoms, and on play and entertainments {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.588}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The lute",
     "markdown": "al-Mas'udi reports that he entered upon al-Mu'tamid, who asked him who was the first to take up the lute ('ud). He told him the report of Lamak and his son, whom he hung on a tree, until he made a lute of wood in his likeness {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.588}."
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/ubaydallah-ibn-khurdadhbih",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}