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 "id": "work/ahsan-al-taqasim",
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 "slug": "ahsan-al-taqasim",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مجلد للشيخ شمس الدين أبي عبد الله محمد بن أحمد المقدسي الحنفي؛ كتاب مرتب على الأقاليم العرفية ذكر فيه أحوال الربع المعمور وبلاده وبره وبحره وجبله ونهره وطرقه ومسالكه ومعادنه وخواصه، وقال إنه لا بد منه للمسافرين ولا غنى عنه للعلماء والرؤساء، جمعه بعدما جال ودخل الأقاليم وتفطن مساحتها بالفراسخ واستعان على ما لم يشاهده بالفحص عنه من الناس {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p. 206}.",
  "en": "Al-Muqaddasi's Ahsan al-Taqasim — the division of the inhabited quarter's climes with their lands, seas, mountains, rivers, routes, mines and properties, compiled from his own travels and verified inquiry; 'indispensable to travellers, scholars and chiefs' {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p. 206}."
 },
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 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-fragmentation"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "book",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "كشف الظنون لحاجي خليفة (ط الفرقان) ج١ ص 206 مدخل 117",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-kashf-batch-11"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/kashf-zunun-furqan"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كتاب لشمس الدين أبي عبد الله محمد بن أحمد المقدسي الحنفي، مرتب على الأقاليم العرفية. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.206}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "محتواه",
     "markdown": "يذكر فيه أحوال الربع المعمور وبلاده وبره وبحره وجبله ونهره وطرقه ومسالكه ومعادنه وخواصه. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.206}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "منهج المؤلف",
     "markdown": "ينقل «كشف الظنون» أن المؤلف قال إن كتابه لا بد منه للمسافرين ولا غنى عنه للعلماء والرؤساء. وأنه جمعه بعد أن جال في الأقاليم وقدّر مسافاتها بالفراسخ، واستعان بالسؤال فيما لم يشاهده. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.206}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/ahsan-al-taqasim",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A book by Shams al-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Maqdisi, the Hanafi, arranged by the customary regions. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.206}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Contents",
     "markdown": "It describes the inhabited quarter of the world and its lands, its climate, its seas, mountains, rivers, roads and routes, its mines and its distinctive properties. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.206}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The author's method",
     "markdown": "\"Kashf al-Zunun\" reports that the author said his book is indispensable to travellers and not to be done without by scholars and leaders. He compiled it after travelling through the regions and measuring their distances in farsakhs, and he relied on asking about places he had not seen himself. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.206}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/ahsan-al-taqasim",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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   "to": "person/al-muqaddasi",
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   "sources": [
    "source/kashf-zunun-furqan"
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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