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 "id": "place/bab-al-hadid",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "bab-al-hadid",
 "label": {
  "ar": "باب الحديد",
  "en": "Bāb al-Ḥadīd"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "حصن وباب حديد في جبل مقطوع بواد، ينقل المؤلف، عن سلام الترجمان، وصفه بأنه باب بمصراعين، وفيه أقفال وأغلاق، وأن الحراس يضربون عليه ليسمعوا ما وراءه {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 936} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 937}.",
  "en": "A fortress and iron gate cut into a mountain by a valley; the author, citing the interpreter Sallām, describes a double gate with locks and bolts that guards strike to listen for what lies beyond {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 936} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 937}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "site",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 936 (scan page)",
   "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": "باب الحديد حصن وباب من حديد في جبل مقطوع بواد. ينقل المؤلف عن سلام الترجمان وصفه بأنه باب بمصراعين، فيه أقفال وأغلاق. ويضرب الحراس عليه ليسمعوا ما وراءه. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.936} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.937}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bab-al-hadid",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Bab al-Hadid (the Iron Gate): a fortress and an iron gate in a mountain cut through by a valley. The author quotes Salam the interpreter's description of it as a gate with two leaves, with locks and bolts on it. The guards strike on it so that they can hear what is behind it. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.936} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.937}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bab-al-hadid",
    "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": "باب الحدید ایک قلعہ اور لوہے کا دروازہ ہے، جو وادی کے کٹے ہوئے پہاڑ میں واقع ہے۔ مصنف سلام ترجمان سے نقل کرتے ہیں کہ یہ دو پٹوں والا دروازہ ہے، جس پر تالے اور کنڈیاں ہیں۔ پہرے دار اس پر ضرب لگاتے ہیں تاکہ سنیں کہ اس کے پیچھے کیا ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.936} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.937}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bab-al-hadid",
    "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"
 }
}