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 "id": "source/athar-baqiya-thaqafa-2008",
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 "slug": "athar-baqiya-thaqafa-2008",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية (مكتبة الثقافة الدينية، القاهرة، ط1، 2008، نسخة رقمية)",
  "en": "The Remaining Traces of Past Centuries (Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, Cairo, 1st ed. 2008, digital copy)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A 2008 Cairo printing of al-Biruni's work on calendars and festivals, read through OCR of a digital copy. The scan's first pages give the dedication to Shams al-Ma'ali Qabus and the book's plan."
 },
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 "tags": [],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "primary",
  "type": "book",
  "title": "الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "al-Biruni",
    "given": "Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad"
   }
  ],
  "language": "ar",
  "reliability_note": "Edition details come from the printed copy's own title and cataloguing pages (p. 2): publisher Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, Cairo, first edition 1428 AH / 2008. Not checked against another copy or against a critical edition. The cataloguing page lists the book as 452 pages. The OCR also contains a Qur'an verse in the dedication; it is not typed in git.",
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5 (library-expansion); OCR (Apple Vision) of a local digital copy"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-18",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}