{
 "id": "concept/shamsa",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "shamsa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الشمسة",
  "en": "Shamsa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "زخرفة دائرية شمسية الشكل تُفتتح بها المخطوطات الإسلامية الفاخرة وتحمل فيها الشمسة أسماء المقتني والكاتب.",
  "en": "A sun-shaped rosette ornament opening luxury Islamic manuscripts, often bearing the owner's or scribe's name."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "arts-of-the-book",
  "libraries-paper-and-the-book"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "art_form",
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q104571873"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), arts lane; via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "زخرفة دائرية شمسية الشكل تُفتتح بها المخطوطات الإسلامية الفاخرة وتحمل فيها الشمسة أسماء المقتني والكاتب. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/shamsa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A circular, sun-shaped ornament with which luxury Islamic manuscripts open. Its centre carries the names of the owner and the scribe. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/shamsa",
    "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": "سورج کی شکل کی ایک گول زخرفت جس سے اعلیٰ اسلامی مخطوطات کا آغاز کیا جاتا اور جس میں مالک اور کاتب کے نام لکھے جاتے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/shamsa",
    "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": [
  "building/dar-al-ilm-baghdad",
  "concept/arabesque",
  "concept/girih",
  "concept/hedwig-glass",
  "concept/horse-colours-in-timurid-painting",
  "concept/islamic-calligraphy",
  "concept/islamic-geometric-patterns",
  "concept/islamic-lustreware"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}