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The mufti deposes himself
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Claim (verbatim)
Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti had answered questions on slavery as a jurist formed by books; then the Sa'dian conquest marched him to Marrakesh in chains. The interiority claim: a jurist who has been the case cannot write like a jurist who has only read it — in the Mi'raj al-su'ud, composed after his captivity, the fatwa machinery should keep breaking into deposition: first-person witnessing about origins, seizure, and unverifiable enslavement claims, at a density his bookish compilations never reach. Prediction: first-person epistemic verbs (ra'aytu, shahidtu, sami'tu, adraktu) occur at least five times more often per 10,000 words in the Mi'raj al-su'ud than in his biographical dictionary Nayl al-ibtihaj; primary clause: the fivefold per-word ratio. Kill: the Hunwick-Harrak critical edition and translation of Mi'raj al-su'ud (Rabat, 2000) and the printed Nayl al-ibtihaj (also present in open Arabic corpora); the computation is a token count of the four verbs per 10,000 words in each work.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Prediction: first-person epistemic verbs (ra'aytu, shahidtu, sami'tu, adraktu) occur at least five times more often per 10,000 words in the Mi'raj al-su'ud than in his biographical dictionary Nayl al-ibtihaj; primary clause: the fivefold per-word ratio.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Kill: the Hunwick-Harrak critical edition and translation of Mi'raj al-su'ud (Rabat, 2000) and the printed Nayl al-ibtihaj (also present in open Arabic corpora); the computation is a token count of the four verbs per 10,000 words in each work.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Fresh blind generation instance (prompt file and existing-titles list only; no repository, web, or prior-art access), 2026-07-16, campaign Minds & Works wave M01.
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Ahmad Baba's captivity and the Mi'raj al-su'ud on slavery are documented in the Hunwick-Harrak edition, but the specific claim that first-person epistemic verbs occur >=5x more densely there than in his Nayl al-ibtihaj was not located.
- J. Hunwick & F. Harrak, ed./trans., Mi'raj al-Su'ud: Ahmad Baba's Replies on Slavery (Rabat, 2000)
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