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 "id": "place/al-wahat-al-kharija",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-wahat-al-kharija",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الواحات الخارجة",
  "en": "The Outer Oases (al-Kharija)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "واحات صحراوية كانت عامرة بالزرع والثمار ثم درست طرقها، ويذكر المؤلف فيها ثعبانا كبيرا يعرف عند أهلها، وأن فيها جبلا معدنه اللازورد يحمل إلى مصر {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 121}، {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 122}.",
  "en": "Desert oases that were once farmed and fertile, but whose roads have fallen out of use. The author reports a lapis lazuli mine on a mountain there, with the stone carried to Egypt, and a great serpent that locals describe {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 121}, {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 122}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "oasis",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 117-126 (scan pages)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "واحات صحراوية كانت عامرة بالزرع والثمار ثم دُرست طرقها. ويذكر المؤلف فيها ثعباناً كبيراً يعرفه أهلها، وجبلاً معدنه اللازورد يحمل إلى مصر. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 121} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 122}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-wahat-al-kharija",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Desert oases that were once populated with crops and fruit, and whose roads were later effaced. The author mentions in them a great serpent that its people know, and a mountain whose ore is lapis lazuli, which is carried to Egypt. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 121} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 122}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-wahat-al-kharija",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "یہ صحرائی نخلستان ہیں جو کبھی کھیتی اور پھلوں سے آباد تھے، پھر ان کے راستے مٹ گئے۔ مصنف ان میں ایک بڑے سانپ کا ذکر کرتے ہیں جسے مقامی لوگ جانتے ہیں، اور ایک پہاڑ کا جس کی کان کا لاجورد مصر کو لایا جاتا ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 121} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 122}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-wahat-al-kharija",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-14",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}