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 "id": "person/ziryab",
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 "label": {
  "ar": "زرياب"
 },
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  "ar": "علي بن نافع المعروف بزرياب المغني؛ مولى المهدي ومتعلم إبراهيم الموصلي، قدم على عبد الرحمن بن الحكم من العراق سنة ٢٠٦هـ فركب الأمير بنفسه لتلقيه وبالغ في إكرامه وأقام عنده بخير حال وأورث صناعة الغناء بالأندلس وخلف أولاده في صناعته وحظوته {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari p. 380}. وكان الغزال أقذع في هجائه فذكر ذلك لعبد الرحمن فأمر بنفيه فدخل العراق {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari p. 262 v.2}.",
  "en": "Ali ibn Nafi, called Ziryab — al-Mahdi's freedman and Ibrahim al-Mawsili's pupil — reached Abd al-Rahman II in AH 206 and the emir rode out himself to meet him; he bequeathed al-Andalus its craft of song, and the poet al-Ghazzal's savage lampoon of him was what sent al-Ghazzal into exile {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari p. 380, v.2 p. 262}."
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 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "نفح الطيب من غصن الأندلس الرطيب للمقري (ط إحسان عباس) ج١ ص 380 وج٢ ص 262",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "علي بن نافع، المعروف بزرياب المغني، مولى المهدي وتلميذ إبراهيم الموصلي. قدم من العراق على عبد الرحمن بن الحكم سنة 206هـ، فركب الأمير بنفسه لتلقيه وبالغ في إكرامه. وأقام عنده بخير حال، وأورث صناعة الغناء في الأندلس وخلف أولاده في صناعته وحظوته. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari p.380}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "هجاء الغزال",
     "markdown": "يذكر المقري أن الغزال أقذع في هجاء زرياب، فذكر ذلك لعبد الرحمن فأمر بنفيه، فدخل العراق. {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari p.262}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ali ibn Nafi, known as Ziryab the singer, client of al-Mahdi and pupil of Ibrahim al-Mawsili. He came from Iraq to Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hakam in the year 206 AH, and the amir rode out in person to receive him and was lavish in honouring him. He stayed with him in good circumstances, and he transmitted the craft of singing to al-Andalus, and his sons inherited his craft and his favour {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari p.380}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The satire of al-Ghazzal",
     "markdown": "al-Maqqari reports that al-Ghazzal wrote a particularly foul satire of Ziryab, which was reported to Abd al-Rahman, who ordered his banishment, and he went back to Iraq {cite:nafh-tib-maqqari p.262}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ziryab",
    "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"
 }
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