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 "id": "place/bayan",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "bayan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بيان",
  "en": "Bayan"
 },
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  "ar": "مدينة على دجلة من الضفة الشرقية، لها منبر، وأهلها حريصون على أن يعلو شأنهم على من يساويهم. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 399}",
  "en": "A town on the eastern bank of the Tigris with a pulpit; al-Idrisi says its people are keen to rise above their peers. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 399}"
 },
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  "persia-central-asia"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 399 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
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   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
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   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مدينة على دجلة من الضفة الشرقية، لها منبر، وأهلها حريصون على أن يعلو شأنهم على من يساويهم. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.399}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A city on the Tigris on its east bank, which has a pulpit. Its people are eager that their standing should rise above that of those who are their equals. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.399}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "place/bayan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "یہ دجلہ کے مشرقی کنارے پر واقع ایک شہر ہے، جہاں منبر قائم ہے۔ یہاں کے باشندے اس بات کا خاص خیال رکھتے ہیں کہ ان کا مرتبہ اپنے ہم پلہ لوگوں سے بلند رہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.399}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bayan",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
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 "updated": "2026-10-14",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}