{
 "id": "place/nawqan",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "nawqan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "نوقان",
  "en": "Nawqan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة من غرر البلاد، عليها سور حصين من تراب، وبها مياسير وتجار وصناع، وفيها قبر علي بن موسى الرضا، ويبلغ معدن الفيروز بجبلها. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 693}",
  "en": "One of the fine cities of the land, with a strong earthen wall, wealthy merchants and craftsmen; the tomb of Ali ibn Musa al-Rida is in it, and turquoise is mined in its hills. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 693}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 693 (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": "نوقان مدينة وصفها الإدريسي بأنها من غرر البلاد. عليها سور من تراب، وفيها ميسورون وتجار وصنّاع، وفيها قبر علي بن موسى الرضا، ويُستخرج الفيروز من جبلها. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.693}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/nawqan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Nawqan is a city which al-Idrisi describes as one of the jewels of the lands. It has a wall of earth, and in it are well-off people, merchants and craftsmen. In it is the tomb of Ali ibn Musa al-Rida, and turquoise is extracted from its mountain. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.693}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/nawqan",
    "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": "نوقان ایک شہر ہے جسے ادریسی نے ملکوں کے بہترین شہروں میں شمار کیا ہے۔ اس کے گرد مٹی کی فصیل ہے، یہاں خوشحال لوگ، تاجر اور کاریگر رہتے ہیں، اور یہیں علی بن موسیٰ الرضا کی قبر ہے۔ اس کے پہاڑ سے فیروزہ نکالا جاتا ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.693}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/nawqan",
    "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"
 }
}