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 "id": "place/waq-waq-islands",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "waq-waq-islands",
 "label": {
  "ar": "جزائر الواق واق",
  "en": "The Waq Waq islands"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "سلسلة جزر يصفها الإدريسي بأنها متصلة بجزر السيلا، وأن أحدا لا يعرف ما وراءها، وأن الذهب فيها كثير والأبنوس فيها من أجود ما يُعرف، وأن التجار يدخلون إليها ويسبكون الذهب فيها {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 91}، {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 92}. وعند ابن خرداذبه: بلاد الواقواق كثيرة الذهب حتى إن أهلها يتخذون سلاسل كلابهم وأطواق قرودهم من ذهب ويأتون بالقمص المنسوجة بالذهب للبيع وبها الأبنوس الجيد {cite:masalik-mamalik-ibn-khurdadhbih p. 77}.",
  "en": "A chain of islands which al-Idrisi says connects with the Sila islands, beyond which no one knows. He reports much gold there and ebony of unmatched quality, and that merchants enter to smelt gold {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 91}, {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 92}."
 },
 "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. 91-96 (scan pages)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002",
   "source/masalik-mamalik-ibn-khurdadhbih"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جزائر الواق واق سلسلة جزر يصفها الإدريسي بأنها متصلة بجزر السيلا، وأن أحداً لا يعرف ما وراءها. وفيها ذهب كثير، وأبنوس من أجود ما يُعرف. ويدخل إليها التجار فيسبكون الذهب. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.91} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.92}\n\nوعند ابن خرداذبه أن بلاد الواقواق كثيرة الذهب. ويذكر أن أهلها يتخذون سلاسل كلابهم وأطواق قرودهم من ذهب، وأن بها أبنوساً جيداً. {cite:masalik-mamalik-ibn-khurdadhbih p.77}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/waq-waq-islands",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Islands of the Waq-Waq are a chain of islands which al-Idrisi describes as connected to the islands of al-Sila, and no one knows what lies beyond them. There is much gold in them, and ebony of the finest quality known. Merchants enter them and smelt gold. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.91} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.92}\n\nAccording to Ibn Khurdadhbih, the land of the Waqwaq is rich in gold. He mentions that its people make the chains of their dogs and the collars of their monkeys of gold, and that there is good ebony in it. {cite:masalik-mamalik-ibn-khurdadhbih p.77}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/waq-waq-islands",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}