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 "id": "work/al-aghani-abu-l-faraj",
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 "slug": "al-aghani-abu-l-faraj",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كتاب الأغاني"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كتاب الأغاني لأبي الفرج علي بن الحسين الأصبهاني، كتاب لم يؤلف مثله اتفاقاً؛ سأل أبو محمد المهلبي مؤلفه في كم جمعه فذكر أنه جمعه في خمسين سنة وأنه كتب في عمره مرة واحدة بخطه وأهداه إلى سيف الدولة فأنفذ له ألف دينار، فلما سمع الصاحب بن عباد قال لقد قصر سيف الدولة وإنه ليستحق أضعافها إذ كان للزاهد فكاهة وللعالم مادة وزيادة وللكاتب بضاعة وتجارة وللملك طيبة ولذاذة، وقال لقد اشتملت خزانتي على مئة ألف وسبعة عشر ألف مجلد ما فيها سميري غيره، وكان عضد الدولة لا يفارقه في سفره ولا حضره وبيعت مسودته بسوق بغداد بأربعة آلاف درهم، وذكر ابن خلكان أن ابن عباد كان يستصحب في أسفاره حمل ثلاثين جملاً من كتب الأدب فلما وصل إليه هذا الكتاب لم يكن بعد ذلك يستصحب غيره لاستغنائه به عنها {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p. 527-528}.",
  "en": "Abu l-Faraj al-Isfahani's Aghani, 'a book whose like was never written': fifty years in the gathering, the author's only autograph, gifted to Sayf al-Dawla for a thousand dinars — whereupon the Sahib Ibn Abbad declared the prince had shortchanged him, called it his sole companion among the 117,000 volumes of his library, and thereafter replaced his thirty-camel train of adab books with it; its draft sold at Baghdad's suq for 4,000 dirhams and Adud al-Dawla never left it {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p. 527-528}."
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  "language": "language/arabic",
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   "person/abu-l-faraj-al-isfahani"
  ],
  "genre": [
   "adab"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون (ط. الفرقان 2004) ج1",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-kashf-zunun-batch-5"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "«كتاب الأغاني» لـ[[person/abu-l-faraj-al-isfahani|أبي الفرج علي بن الحسين الأصبهاني]]. يصفه حاجي خليفة بأنه كتاب لم يؤلف مثله اتفاقاً. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.527-528}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "خبر تأليفه",
     "markdown": "يروي حاجي خليفة أن أبا محمد المهلبي سأل المؤلف في كم جمعه، فذكر أنه جمعه في خمسين سنة، وأنه كتبه في عمره مرة واحدة بخطه وأهداه إلى سيف الدولة، فأرسل إليه ألف دينار. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.527-528}\n\nويذكر أن الصاحب بن عباد قال حين سمع بذلك إن سيف الدولة قصّر، وإن الكتاب يستحق أضعافها. وقال إن خزانته تضم مئة ألف وسبعة عشر ألف مجلد وليس فيها سميره غيره. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.527-528}\n\nويذكر أن عضد الدولة لم يكن يفارقه في سفر ولا إقامة، وأن مسودته بيعت في سوق بغداد بأربعة آلاف درهم. وينقل عن ابن خلكان أن ابن عباد كان يحمل في أسفاره ثلاثين جملاً من كتب الأدب، فلما وصله هذا الكتاب لم يستصحب غيره. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.527-528}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "\"Kitab al-Aghani\" (The Book of Songs) by [[person/abu-l-faraj-al-isfahani|Abu al-Faraj Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Isfahani]]. Hajji Khalifa describes it as a book the like of which was never written by chance. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.527-528}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "How it was written",
     "markdown": "Hajji Khalifa reports that Abu Muhammad al-Muhallabi asked the author how long he had taken to gather it. He said he had gathered it over fifty years, that he had written it out once in his lifetime in his own hand, and that he presented it to Sayf al-Dawla, who sent him a thousand dinars. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.527-528}\n\nHe also reports that al-Sahib ibn Abbad, on hearing this, said that Sayf al-Dawla had been stingy, and that the book deserved many times that sum. He said that his library held a hundred and seventeen thousand volumes, and that among them there was nothing like this book for him. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.527-528}\n\nHe mentions that Adud al-Dawla never left it while travelling or at home, and that its draft was sold in the Baghdad market for four thousand dirhams. He cites Ibn Khallikan as saying that Ibn Abbad used to carry thirty camel-loads of books on literature on his journeys, and that once this book reached him he took no other with him. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.527-528}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/al-aghani-abu-l-faraj",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
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   "note": "امتلأ بتراجم الجواري المغنيات",
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  "person/ibrahim-al-mawsili",
  "concept/al-qiyan"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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