{
 "id": "concept/mahmal",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "mahmal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المحمل",
  "en": "Mahmal"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "محفة فارغة مزخرفة كانت تحمل على جمل في قافلة الحج ترمز إلى الرعاية السلطانية للحجاز؛ أشهرها المحمل المصري حتى أواسط القرن العشرين.",
  "en": "An ornate empty litter borne on a camel in the Hajj caravan symbolising sovereign care for the Hijaz; the Egyptian mahmal lasted until the mid-20th century."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "sacred-space-and-pilgrimage",
  "arts-of-the-book"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "art_form",
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q6735263"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), arts lane; via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محفة فارغة مزخرفة كانت تحمل على جمل في قافلة الحج ترمز إلى الرعاية السلطانية للحجاز؛ أشهرها المحمل المصري حتى أواسط القرن العشرين. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/mahmal",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "An empty, decorated litter carried on a camel in the pilgrimage caravan, symbolising the sovereign's care for the Hijaz. The best known was the Egyptian mahmal until the middle of the twentieth century. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/mahmal",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "خالی آراستہ محمل جو حج کے قافلے میں اونٹ پر اٹھایا جاتا تھا، حجاز کی سلطانی سرپرستی کی علامت؛ سب سے مشہور مصری محمل تھا جو بیسویں صدی کے وسط تک رہا۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/mahmal",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "object/kiswa",
  "building/al-kadhimiya-mosque",
  "building/al-qullays",
  "building/bir-zamzam",
  "building/dar-al-nadwa",
  "building/dhu-al-khalasa",
  "building/imam-husayn-shrine",
  "building/kaaba"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}