{
 "id": "place/masfahan-island",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "masfahan-island",
 "label": {
  "ar": "جزيرة مسفهان",
  "en": "Masfahan island"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جزيرة في البحر الغربي عند الجزائر الخالدات، ذكر المؤلف عن صاحب كتاب العجائب أن في وسطها تلا مستديرا عليه صنم أحمر بناه أسعد أبو كرب الحميري علامة لمن يقصد تلك الناحية، وأن فيها دواب هائلة {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 103}، {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 104}.",
  "en": "An island in the western sea among the Fortunate Isles. Citing the author of the Book of Wonders, al-Idrisi reports a round hill in its centre with a red idol set up by Asad Abu Karib al-Himyari as a sea-mark, and fearsome animals {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 103}, {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 104}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "island",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 97-106 (scan pages)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جزيرة مسفهان جزيرة في البحر الغربي عند الجزائر الخالدات، بحسب الإدريسي. ينقل عن صاحب كتاب العجائب أن في وسطها تلاً مستديراً عليه صنم أحمر بناه أسعد أبو كرب الحميري علامة لمن يقصد تلك الناحية، وأن فيها دواب هائلة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.103} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.104}\n\nهذه رواية منقولة عن كتاب آخر، ولا تثبتها البيانات المتاحة لدينا من مصدر ثانٍ."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/masfahan-island",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Masfahan is an island in the western sea, near the Eternal Islands (al-Jaza'ir al-Khalidat), according to al-Idrisi. He relates from the author of the Book of Wonders that in its centre there is a round hill, on which stands a red idol built by As'ad Abu Karib al-Himyari as a landmark for whoever travels to that region, and that there are enormous beasts there. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.103} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.104}\n\nThis account is transmitted from another book, and the data available to us does not confirm it from a second source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/masfahan-island",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
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 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}