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  "ar": "إرشاد الأريب إلى معرفة الأديب",
  "en": "Irshad al-Arib ila Ma'rifat al-Adib (Mujam al-Udaba')"
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  "ar": "«معجم الأدباء» لياقوت الحموي، ويعرف أيضاً بـ«إرشاد الأريب إلى معرفة الأديب»؛ خطر له في العشرين من عمره حين لقي بآمد النحوي شميم الحلي سنة ٥٩٤هـ/١١٩٨م، وظل يغذيه من مطالعاته ولقاءاته حتى آخر عمره {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 11 p. 265-266}.",
  "en": "Yaqut al-Hamawi's dictionary of men of letters, also called Irshad al-Arib ila Ma'rifat al-Adib: the idea came to him in his twentieth year when he met the grammarian Shumaym al-Hilli at Amid in 594/1198, and he kept feeding it from his reading and encounters to the end of his life {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 11 p. 265-266}."
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   "source": "EI2 vol. 11 art. Yakut al-Rumi (Cl. Gilliot) printed p. 265",
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