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 "id": "person/utba-jariyat-al-khayzuran",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "utba-jariyat-al-khayzuran",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عتبة جارية الخيزران",
  "en": "'Utba, al-Khayzuran's maid"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جارية الخيزران التي كثر تشبيب أبي العتاهية بها حتى شكت إلى مولاتها فجلده المهدي، فلما رأته مجلوداً فاض دمعها، ولما همّ المهدي بدفعها إليه قالت مع حرمتي وحقي وخدمتي تدفعني إلى بائع جرار يكتسب بالشعر، وقالت له أما لو كنت عاشقاً لعتبة لشغلت عن العين والورق {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 305-306}.",
  "en": "Al-Khayzuran's singing-girl whose refusal — 'a jar-seller who lives by verse?' — spurned Abu'l-'Atahiyya before the caliph {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 305-306}."
 },
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 "data": {
  "gender": "female",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/دار التحرير) ج2 ص 305–306",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-74"
  },
  "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": "عتبة جارية الخيزران. يروي المسعودي أن أبا العتاهية أكثر من التشبيب بها حتى شكته إلى مولاتها، فجلده المهدي {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.305-306}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الخبر",
     "markdown": "لما رأته مجلوداً فاض دمعها. ولما همّ المهدي بدفعها إليه قالت إنها لا ترضى أن تُدفع إلى بائع جرار يكتسب بالشعر. وقالت له إنه لو كان عاشقاً لعتبة لشغل عن العين والورق {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.305-306}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/utba-jariyat-al-khayzuran",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Utba, a slave-girl of al-Khayzuran. al-Mas'udi reports that Abu al-Atahiya wrote much of love poetry about her, until she complained of him to her mistress, and al-Mahdi had him flogged {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.305-306}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The report",
     "markdown": "When she saw him flogged, her tears flowed. When al-Mahdi was about to hand her over to him, she said that she would not be content to be handed to a jar-seller who earns a living by poetry. She told him that if he were in love with Utba, he would have been occupied away from gold and silver {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.305-306}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/utba-jariyat-al-khayzuran",
    "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"
 }
}