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  "ar": "شمس الدين الفناري",
  "en": "Shams al-Din al-Fanari"
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  "ar": "العلامة العثماني الفناري صاحب أنموذج العلوم في مئة مسألة من مئة فنون التي ألغز فيها أسماء الفنون امتحاناً لفضلاء عصره، وكان ممن سافر إلى قَرامان فكتبها اختباراً لعلمائها الذين كانوا يجحدون فضله؛ توفي سنة أربع وثلاثين وثمان مئة {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p. 665}.",
  "en": "Shams al-Din al-Fanari the Ottoman polymath, author of the hundred-science riddle he wrote — per his son — to test the scholars of Qaraman who denied his merit; he died in 834 {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p. 665}."
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   "hijri": "0834~",
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   "note": "834هـ {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p. 665}",
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   "jurist"
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   "edtf": "1431~",
   "hijri": "0834~",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "note": "834هـ {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p. 665}",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون (ط. الفرقان 2004) ج1",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "شمس الدين محمد بن حمزة الفناري، عالم عثماني، صاحب «أنموذج العلوم». {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما يذكره حاجي خليفة",
     "markdown": "ألّف مئة مسألة من مئة فنّ، ألغز فيها أسماء الفنون امتحاناً لفضلاء عصره. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}\n\nكان ممن سافر إلى قَرامان، فكتبها اختباراً لعلمائها الذين كانوا يجحدون فضله. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}\n\nتوفي سنة 834هـ. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}"
    }
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    "id": "person/al-fanari-shams-al-din",
    "lang": "ar",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Hamza al-Fanari, an Ottoman scholar, author of \"Unmudhaj al-Ulum\". {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What Haji Khalifa relates",
     "markdown": "He composed a hundred questions on a hundred arts, and posed riddles about the names of the arts as a test for the excellent scholars of his age. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}\n\nHe travelled to Qaramān and wrote them there as a test for its scholars, who had been denying his merit. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}\n\nHe died in 834 AH. {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-fanari-shams-al-din",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "شمس الدین محمد بن حمزہ الفناری عثمانی عالم تھے، اور «انموذج العلوم» کے مصنف تھے۔ {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حاجی خلیفہ کا بیان",
     "markdown": "انہوں نے سو فنون کے سو مسائل تصنیف کیے، جن میں فنون کے ناموں کو پہیلی کی صورت میں بیان کیا، تاکہ اپنے زمانے کے فاضل لوگوں کا امتحان لیں۔ {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}\n\nوہ قرامان کے سفر پر گئے، تو یہ مسائل وہاں کے ان علماء کے امتحان کے لیے لکھے جو ان کے فضل کا انکار کرتے تھے۔ {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}\n\nان کی وفات 834ھ میں ہوئی۔ {cite:kashf-zunun-furqan p.665}"
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
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    "lang": "ur",
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     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
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