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 "label": {
  "ar": "ليلى ساز",
  "en": "Leyla Saz",
  "ur": "لیلیٰ ساز"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ملحنة وشاعرة وكاتبة تركية، وُلدت في إسطنبول سنة 1850 وتوفيت فيها سنة 1936. ابنة حكيم إسماعيل باشا طبيب القصر، قضت سبع سنوات من طفولتها في حريم قصر طولمة باغجة، وتعلمت البيانو والموسيقى التركية، وتزوجت كريتلي سري باشا، وألفت نحو مئتي عمل موسيقي، وخلفت مذكرات عن الحريم الإمبراطوري في القرن التاسع عشر تُعد من أهم الشهادات الأولية عنه، واتخذت لقب «ساز» بعد قانون الألقاب سنة 1934.",
  "en": "Turkish composer, poet and writer, born at Istanbul in 1850 and died there in 1936. Daughter of Hekim İsmail Pasha, the palace physician, she spent seven childhood years in the harem of Dolmabahçe Palace, learned piano and Turkish music, married Giritli Sırrı Pasha, composed some two hundred works, and left memoirs of the nineteenth-century imperial harem that remain a primary first-hand source on it; she took the surname Saz after the 1934 Surname Law.",
  "ur": "ترک موسیقار، شاعرہ اور مصنفہ، 1850ء میں استنبول میں پیدا ہوئیں اور 1936ء میں وہیں وفات پائی۔ محل کے طبیب حکیم اسماعیل پاشا کی بیٹی تھیں؛ بچپن حرمِ سلطانی میں گزرا، اور ان کی یادداشتیں انیسویں صدی کے شاہی حرم کی اہم ترین عینی شہادتوں میں ہیں۔"
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   "edtf": "1850",
   "hijri": "1266",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Istanbul in 1850: the Turkish article's infobox and text and the Arabic article give Istanbul and the year 1850, the English article gives the year 1850, and Wikidata gives the year 1850 with birthplace Istanbul (Q406). The Hijri year 1266 is the tabular conversion of mid-1850 and is marked derived.",
   "sources": [
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   "edtf": "1936-12-06",
   "hijri": "1355",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Istanbul on 6 December 1936: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. The Hijri year 1355 is the tabular conversion of 6 December 1936 (22 Ramadan 1355) and is marked derived.",
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   {
    "value": "ليلى ساز",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "Leyla Saz",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Leylâ Saz",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Leyla Hanımefendi",
    "kind": "alternate"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "roles": [
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   "poet",
   "writer"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1850",
   "hijri": "1266",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Istanbul in 1850: the Turkish article's infobox and text and the Arabic article give Istanbul and the year 1850, the English article gives the year 1850, and Wikidata gives the year 1850 with birthplace Istanbul (Q406). The Hijri year 1266 is the tabular conversion of mid-1850 and is marked derived.",
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   "edtf": "1936-12-06",
   "hijri": "1355",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Istanbul on 6 December 1936: the English, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. The Hijri year 1355 is the tabular conversion of 6 December 1936 (22 Ramadan 1355) and is marked derived.",
   "sources": [
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "What each source gives, stated exactly: no source names a school for Leyla Saz herself, and Wikidata carries no religion (P140) value for her at all. None of the English, Turkish or Arabic articles carries a religion field or discusses her personal affiliation. What the sources do give is her father: the Turkish article calls Hekim İsmail Pasha a palace physician of Rum (Greek) origin who served as the harem's doctor — a father's origin and any conversion of his are family background and never count for the daughter, and her childhood inside the imperial harem and her Ottoman classical repertoire are milieu and work, not attestation. Under the two-source rule and the doubt rule her school is therefore left unknown, with these readings preserved here.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Leyla Saz' (revision 1342895861), Turkish Wikipedia 'Leylâ Saz' (revision 38278248, reached through the redirect from 'Leyla Saz') and Arabic Wikipedia 'ليلى ساز' (revision 75386172), read on 26 October 2026, with Wikidata item Q545441. The harvest queue's years (1850–1936) are confirmed. Her father (Wikidata Q6063919), her husband Giritli Sırrı Pasha (Q5564309) and her son the architect Vedat Tek (Q7917938) have no museum person records, so no child_of or spouse_of edge is written; a child edge for Vedat Tek would in any case be written in his own record, not his mother's. No record of this person existed in the museum under any spelling, fragment or QID before this build.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ليلى ساز (1850م – 6 ديسمبر 1936م) ملحنة وشاعرة وكاتبة تركية، وُلدت في إسطنبول وتوفيت فيها. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-ar} ابنة حكيم إسماعيل باشا طبيب القصر من أصل رومي (يوناني)، وأمضت سبع سنوات من طفولتها داخل حريم قصر طولمة باغجة وصيفةً لنساء السلطان. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} ألّفت نحو مئتي عمل موسيقي بين غنائي وآلي، وخلفت مذكرات عن الحريم الإمبراطوري أُعيدت كتابتها بعد أن أتلفت النار أصولها، وهي من أهم الشهادات الأولية على حياة الحريم في القرن التاسع عشر. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "وُلدت ليلى ساز في إسطنبول سنة 1850م، وتعلمت البيانو من سن السابعة على يد عازف إيطالي، والموسيقى التركية على يد مدني عزيز أفندي ونيكوغوس آغا، وتلقت دروسًا في الفرنسية واليونانية القديمة واللاهوت أثناء ولاية أبيها على كريت. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} تزوجت كريتلي سري باشا ورافقته في مناصبه عبر الأناضول والبلقان، وأنجبت ابنها المعماري وداد تك (وُلد 1873م). {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} ترمّلت سنة 1895م واستقرت في إسطنبول حيث صار بيتها صالونًا أدبيًا، وكتبت في «مروّت» من 1887م وعملت في «خانملاره مخصوص غزته». {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} صدرت مذكراتها «الحريم الإمبراطوري للسلاطين» بطبعتها الفرنسية في باريس سنة 1925م، واتخذت لقب «ساز» بعد قانون الألقاب سنة 1934م، وتوفيت في إسطنبول في 6 ديسمبر 1936م ودُفنت في مقبرة أدرنة قابي. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأعمال",
     "markdown": "ألّفت ليلى ساز نحو مئتي عمل موسيقي وأكثر من خمسين أغنية، ونشرت شعرها ابتداءً من 1887م. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} وأهم آثارها المكتوبة مذكراتها عن الحريم: «حرم وسراي عادات قديمه سي» بالتركية، و«الحريم الإمبراطوري» بالفرنسية (باريس، 1925م)، وقد أتلفت النار مسوداتها الأصلية فأعادت إنشاءها من ذاكرتها. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المواقف والنقد",
     "markdown": "يُقرأ هذا القسم بوصفه عرضًا لمواقف منقولة عن المصادر، لا حكمًا من المتحف.\n\nتُقدَّم مذكراتها في المصادر بوصفها شهادة عيان نادرة من داخل الحريم الإمبراطوري، وهي قيمتها التاريخية الأولى. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} ولا يسمّي أي مصدر مذهبًا دينيًا لها بنفسها: فالمقالات الثلاث بلا حقل للديانة، ولا تحمل ويكيبيانات أي قيمة للديانة لها أصلًا؛ وما يذكره مصدر تركي هو أن أباها كان طبيبًا قصريًا من أصل يوناني (رومي) — وأصل الأب أو اعتناقه المحتمل خلفية عائلية لا تُنسب إليها، وطفولتها في الحريم وذخيرتها الموسيقية العثمانية وسطٌ وعملٌ لا شهادة مذهب — ولذلك يظل مذهبها في هذا السجل غير مُسمّى. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikidata-leyla-saz}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المقالة الإنجليزية والتركية والعربية في ويكيبيديا عن ليلى ساز، وعنصر ويكيبيانات Q545441. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-ar} {cite:wikidata-leyla-saz}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Leyla Saz (1850 – 6 December 1936) was a Turkish composer, poet and writer, born at Istanbul and died there. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-ar} She was the daughter of Hekim İsmail Pasha, the palace physician, whom the Turkish article describes as of Rum (Greek) origin, and she spent seven years of her childhood inside the harem of Dolmabahçe Palace as a lady-in-waiting to the sultan's women. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} She composed some two hundred musical works and left memoirs of the imperial harem, recreated after the originals were lost in a fire, which remain a primary first-hand source on nineteenth-century harem life. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life and career",
     "markdown": "Leyla Saz was born at Istanbul in 1850, learned piano from the age of seven with an Italian teacher and Turkish music with Medeni Aziz Efendi and Nikoğos Ağa, and took lessons in French, ancient Greek and theology while her father governed Crete. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} She married Giritli Sırrı Pasha, travelled with his postings across Anatolia and the Balkans, and was the mother of the architect Vedat Tek (born 1873). {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} Widowed in 1895, she settled at Istanbul, where her home became a literary salon; she wrote for Mürüvvet from 1887 and worked on Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} Her memoirs, The Imperial Harem of the Sultans, appeared in a French edition at Paris in 1925; she took the surname Saz under the 1934 Surname Law, died at Istanbul on 6 December 1936 and was buried at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "She composed about two hundred vocal and instrumental works and more than fifty songs, and published poetry from 1887. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} Her chief written legacy is her memoir of the harem, Harem ve Saray Adât-ı Kadîmesi in Turkish and Le Harem impérial in French (Paris, 1925), whose original drafts were destroyed by fire and which she recreated from memory. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Positions and criticism",
     "markdown": "This section is read as a presentation of positions reported from the sources, not as a verdict of the museum.\n\nThe sources present her memoirs as a rare eyewitness account from inside the imperial harem — her principal historical value. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} No source names a religious school for the woman herself: none of the three articles carries a religion field, and Wikidata carries no religion value for her at all. What the Turkish article does state is that her father was a palace physician of Greek (Rum) origin — a father's origin, and any conversion of his, are family background and are not attributed to her, and her harem childhood and Ottoman repertoire are milieu and work, not attestation — so her school is left unnamed in this entry. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikidata-leyla-saz}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- The English, Turkish and Arabic Wikipedia articles on Leyla Saz, and Wikidata item Q545441. {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-ar} {cite:wikidata-leyla-saz}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "لیلیٰ ساز (پیدائش: استنبول، 1850ء – وفات: استنبول، 6 دسمبر 1936ء) ترک موسیقار، شاعرہ اور مصنفہ تھیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-ar} وہ محل کے طبیب حکیم اسماعیل پاشا کی بیٹی تھیں، جنہیں ترکی مضمون یونانی (رومی) النسل بتاتا ہے، اور ان کا بچپن طولمہ باغچہ محل کے حرم میں گزرا۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} ان کی یادداشتیں انیسویں صدی کے شاہی حرم کی اہم ترین عینی شہادتوں میں ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور کارنامہ",
     "markdown": "انہوں نے سات برس کی عمر سے پیانو اور ترک موسیقی سیکھی، گریتلی سری پاشا سے شادی کی اور ان کے عہدوں کے ساتھ اناطولیہ اور بلقان کا سفر کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} 1895ء میں بیوہ ہوئیں، استنبول میں ادبی صالون قائم کیا، اور ان کی یادداشتوں کا فرانسیسی ایڈیشن 1925ء میں پیرس سے چھپا۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} 1934ء میں «ساز» خاندانی نام اختیار کیا اور 6 دسمبر 1936ء کو استنبول میں وفات پائی۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کام",
     "markdown": "انہوں نے تقریباً دو سو موسیقی قطعات اور پچاس سے زائد گیت بنائے، اور 1887ء سے شاعری شائع کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} ان کی اصل میراث حرم پر یادداشتیں ہیں، جن کے اصل مسودے آگ میں جل گئے تھے اور انہوں نے انہیں یادداشت سے دوبارہ لکھا۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- لیلیٰ ساز پر انگریزی، ترکی اور عربی ویکیپیڈیا کے مضامین، اور ویکی ڈیٹا آئٹم Q545441۔ {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-en} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-tr} {cite:wikipedia-leyla-saz-ar} {cite:wikidata-leyla-saz}"
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