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 "id": "person/kurush-al-malik",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "kurush-al-malik",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كورش الملك",
  "en": "King Cyrus"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كورش الملك حين ولد المسيح عيسى بعث ثلاثة أنفس دفع إلى أحدهم صرة من لبان وإلى آخر صرة من مر وإلى آخر صرة من تبر وسيرهم يهتدون بنجم وصفه لهم فساروا حتى انتهوا إلى المسيح وأمه مريم بأرض الشام، وكان إذا ساروا سار معهم النجم وإذا وقفوا وقف بوقوفهم، والنصارى تغلو في قصة هؤلاء النفر وهذا الخبر موجود في الإنجيل وقد شرحه المسعودي في كتابه أخبار الزمان {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 551}.",
  "en": "King Cyrus who at Christ's birth dispatched the three gift-bearers — frankincense, myrrh and gold — guided by a star that moved and halted with them until they reached Mary and her son in Syria; the report is in the Gospel, fully treated in al-Mas'udi's Akhbar al-Zaman {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 551}."
 },
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  "people"
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 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": -599.9993839709236,
  "latest": -528.9999794657292
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 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "-600",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Date-enrichment pass; source: Iranica (Cyrus II)"
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "-530",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Date-enrichment pass; source: Iranica (Cyrus II)"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "-600",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Date-enrichment pass; source: Iranica (Cyrus II)"
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "-530",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Date-enrichment pass; source: Iranica (Cyrus II)"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "المسعودي، مروج الذهب وأهل المعاجن",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "model": "SWE-2 Medium",
   "run": "prose-fill-persons-batch29"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كورش الملك؛ حين ولد المسيح عيسى بعث ثلاثة أنفس دفع إلى أحدهم صرة من لبان وإلى آخر صرة من مر وإلى آخر صرة من تبر وسيرهم يهتدون بنجم وصفه لهم، فساروا حتى انتهوا إلى المسيح وأمه مريم بأرض الشام، وكان إذا ساروا سار معهم النجم وإذا وقفوا وقف بوقوفهم — خبر منقول على ما في المروج {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 137}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kurush-al-malik",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-03"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Kurush the king; when Jesus the Messiah was born, he sent three men — to one a bag of frankincense, to another a bag of myrrh, to a third a bag of gold — dispatching them to be guided by a star he described, and they travelled until they reached the Messiah and his mother Mary in the land of Syria, the star moving when they moved and halting when they halted — a transmitted report per the Muruj."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kurush-al-malik",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), batch 29"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-03"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "کورش بادشاہ؛ جب مسیح عیسیٰ پیدا ہوا تو اس نے تین آدمیوں کو لبان، مر اور سونے کی تھیلیاں دے کر ایک ستارے کی رہنمائی پر بھیجا، یہاں تک کہ وہ مسیح اور ان کی ماں مریم تک ارضِ شام پہنچے — ستارہ ان کے ساتھ چلتا اور رکتا تھا — مروج کی منقول روایت۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kurush-al-malik",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), batch 29"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-03"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/fithaghuras",
  "person/bukhtanasar"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/syria",
   "type": "lived_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Associated with Syria per the record's own summary text; relation type pending review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-raban-958",
  "event/ottoman-mamluk-war-1485",
  "event/uprising-of-mukhtar",
  "person/abd-al-aziz-uyun-al-sud",
  "person/abd-allah-dhu-alghina",
  "person/amin-ibn-muhammad-al-jundi",
  "person/barukh-ibn-nariya",
  "person/busr-ibn-abi-artat"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}