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  "ar": "مصباح قبة الصخرة المؤرخ 956هـ",
  "en": "Dome of the Rock mosque lamp dated 956 AH",
  "ur": "قبۃ الصخرہ کا 956ھ کا چراغ"
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  "ar": "مصباح مسجد عثماني من الخزف، مرسوم بالأزرق والفيروزي، من «مسجد عمر» (قبة الصخرة) في القدس، مؤرخ جمادى الأولى سنة 956هـ وموقّع «الفقير الحقير مصطفى»، محفوظ في المتحف البريطاني {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 151}.",
  "en": "Ottoman ceramic mosque lamp painted in blue and turquoise, from the 'Mosque of Omar' (the Dome of the Rock) in Jerusalem, dated Jumada I 956 AH and signed 'the poor, the humble Mustafa', in the British Museum {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 151}.",
  "ur": "عثمانی چینی کا مسجد کا چراغ، نیلے اور فیروزی سے مزین، یروشلم کی «مسجدِ عمر» (قبۃ الصخرہ) سے، جمادی الاولیٰ 956ھ کی تاریخ اور «فقیر حقیر مصطفیٰ» کے دستخط کے ساتھ، برٹش میوزیم میں {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 151}۔"
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  "latest": 1549.9995893139173
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   "edtf": "1549",
   "hijri": "0956-05",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Dated in the inscription; Hobson equates it with June 1549 {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 151}."
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  "kind": "lamp",
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   "edtf": "1549",
   "hijri": "0956-05",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Dated in the inscription; Hobson equates it with June 1549 {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 151}."
  },
  "materials": [
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يعدّ ر. ل. هوبسون هذا المصباح «وثيقة ذات أهمية كبرى» في مجموعة الخزف التركي بالمتحف البريطاني، وهو مصباح مسجد من «مسجد عمر» في القدس، أي قبة الصخرة، عليه كتابة تقول إنه صُنع سنة 956هـ وإن مزخرفه «الفقير الحقير مصطفى». {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 8} وقد جعله هوبسون صورة الغلاف في دليله. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 5}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصفه",
     "markdown": "مصنوع من عجينة رملية بيضاء غير نقية، مكسو ببطانة بيضاء، ومرسوم بالأزرق والأخضر الفيروزي بخطوط سوداء تحت طلاء شفاف. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} والكتابات في الأشرطة الرئيسة آيات من القرآن، وعلى القاعدة: «في سنة 956، في شهر جمادى الأولى، الرسام الفقير الحقير مصطفى». {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} ويرى هوبسون أن التاريخ يوافق حزيران 1549م، أي زمن ترميم سليمان القانوني لقبة الصخرة وإعادة زخرفتها. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 151}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مكانته",
     "markdown": "يقول هوبسون إن أجود الخزف التركي من المجموعة الثانية يعود إلى زمن هذا المصباح تقريبًا، ولذلك يحتج بأن مصدر هذا الخزف لا ينبغي أن يُطلب في مصانع دمشق التي أفرغها الفتح العثماني، بل في مركز جمع فيه العثمانيون المواهب. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 132}"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "R. L. Hobson calls this lamp \"a document of capital importance\" in the British Museum's Turkish pottery: a mosque lamp from the \"Mosque of Omar\" in Jerusalem, that is the Dome of the Rock, with an inscription saying it was made in 956 AH and that its painter was \"the poor, the humble Mustafa\". {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 8} Hobson made it the frontispiece of his guide. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 5}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Description",
     "markdown": "It is of impure white sandy ware dressed with white slip and painted in blue and turquoise green with black outlines under a clear glaze. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} The inscriptions in the main bands are passages from the Qur'an; those on the foot read: \"in the year 956, in the month of Jumada al-ula; the painter is the poor, the humble Mustafa\". {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} Hobson equates the date with June 1549, the time when Suleiman the Magnificent restored and redecorated the Dome of the Rock. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 151}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Significance",
     "markdown": "Hobson says the finest Turkish pottery of his Group II belongs to about the date of this lamp, and argues from this that the source of that ware should be sought not in the potteries of Damascus, depleted by the Ottoman conquest, but in a centre where the Ottomans had concentrated talent. {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 132}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "آر ایل ہوبسن اس چراغ کو برٹش میوزیم کے ترکی ظروف میں «نہایت اہم دستاویز» کہتے ہیں: یروشلم کی «مسجدِ عمر»، یعنی قبۃ الصخرہ، کا مسجد کا چراغ جس کے کتبے میں ہے کہ یہ 956ھ میں بنا اور اس کا مصور «فقیر حقیر مصطفیٰ» تھا۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 8} ہوبسن نے اسے اپنی رہنما کتاب کا سرورق بنایا۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 5}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بیان",
     "markdown": "یہ غیر خالص سفید ریتیلے خمیر کا ہے جس پر سفید استر ہے، اور شفاف لعاب کے نیچے سیاہ خطوط کے ساتھ نیلے اور فیروزی سبز سے رنگا ہے۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} مرکزی پٹیوں کے کتبے قرآن کے اقتباسات ہیں؛ پائے پر لکھا ہے: «سنہ 956، ماہِ جمادی الاولیٰ میں؛ مصور فقیر حقیر مصطفیٰ»۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 150} ہوبسن اس تاریخ کو جون 1549ء کے برابر کرتے ہیں، جب سلیمان القانونی نے قبۃ الصخرہ کی مرمت اور نئی آرائش کی۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 151}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اہمیت",
     "markdown": "ہوبسن کہتے ہیں کہ ان کے دوسرے گروہ کے بہترین ترکی ظروف تقریباً اسی چراغ کے زمانے کے ہیں، اور اس سے استدلال کرتے ہیں کہ ان ظروف کا ماخذ عثمانی فتح سے خالی ہو جانے والی دمشق کی کمہار گاہوں میں نہیں بلکہ کسی ایسے مرکز میں ڈھونڈنا چاہیے جہاں عثمانیوں نے ہنرمند جمع کیے تھے۔ {cite:hobson-guide-islamic-pottery-near-east-1932 p. 132}"
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