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 "label": {
  "ar": "عبد الحق بيولي",
  "en": "Abdalhaqq Bewley",
  "ur": "عبد الحق بیولی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مترجم وكاتب بريطاني اعتنق الإسلام في المغرب سنة 1968 ودرس فيه ثلاث سنوات، وعمل مع الشيخ عبد القادر الصوفي في تأسيس جماعات مسلمة في نيجيريا وإسبانيا والولايات المتحدة وألمانيا وجنوب أفريقيا، وأمّ المصلين في نورويتش وكيب تاون. ترجم مع زوجته عائشة بيولي «القرآن الكريم: ترجمة جديدة لمعناه» (1999) والموطأ والشفا، وألّف «الزكاة: إحياء ركن ساقط» و«المذاهب الأربعة في الإسلام».",
  "en": "British translator and writer who accepted Islam in Morocco in 1968 and studied there for three years. He worked with Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi establishing Muslim communities in Nigeria, Spain, the United States, Germany and South Africa, and served as an imam at Norwich and Cape Town. With his wife Aisha Bewley he translated The Noble Qur'an (1999), the Muwatta and ash-Shifa; his own books include Zakat: Raising a Fallen Pillar and The Four Madhhabs of Islam.",
  "ur": "برطانوی مترجم و مصنف، جنہوں نے 1968ء میں مراکش میں اسلام قبول کیا اور وہاں تین سال تعلیم حاصل کی۔ انہوں نے شیخ عبد القادر الصوفی کے ساتھ نائجیریا، اسپین، امریکہ، جرمنی اور جنوبی افریقہ میں مسلم جماعتوں کے قیام میں کام کیا اور ناروچ و کیپ ٹاؤن میں امامت کی۔ اپنی اہلیہ عائشہ بیولی کے ساتھ انہوں نے «قرآن کی نئی ترجمانی» ⁦(1999ء)⁩، موطا اور شفا کا ترجمہ کیا؛ ان کی اپنی کتابوں میں «زکاۃ: ایک گرا ہوا رکن پھر سے» اور «اسلام کے چار مذاہب» شامل ہیں۔"
 },
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Abdalhaqq Bewley",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Abdalhaqq Sayf al-'Ilm Bewley",
    "kind": "full"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "translator",
   "writer"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No two independent sources attest a legal school or an order membership for Bewley himself. His Muslim practice is documented in full: he accepted Islam in Morocco in 1968 and studied there for three years, has served as an imam (Norwich through most of the 1980s; imam-khatib of the Jumu'a Mosque of Cape Town in 2006) and a teacher of Islam on four continents, and his translation and writing life has been spent inside Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi's Maliki-oriented communities. Working within a teacher's movement, translating its Maliki and Sufi texts, and an imamate attest practice and affiliation, none of which names a school or proves an order membership for the man himself. One scholarly overview of women Qur'an translators (Bokhari & Shah, Abhath, 2021) describes the Bewleys jointly: 'They belonged to the Maliki School of jurisprudence. They are Sufis. In Sufi tariqah, they follow the Habibiyya branch of the Shadhili Darqawi Tariqah.' That is a single scholarly family, preserved here, and on its own it does not carry a value; the settlement is unknown, with the practice stated in full.",
    "sources": [
     "source/dar-al-taqwa-islamic-will-bios-1995",
     "source/botswana-zakah-talks-intro-2009",
     "source/abhath-bewley-women-translators-2021"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/dar-al-taqwa-islamic-will-bios-1995",
   "source/botswana-zakah-talks-intro-2009",
   "source/abhath-bewley-women-translators-2021"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "No Wikipedia article in any language and no Wikidata item exist for Abdalhaqq Bewley (a Wikidata entity search in this session returns nothing for him). The record rests on two independent biographies read in full in this session — the author biography printed in Dar Al Taqwa's The Islamic Will (1995) and Hajj Issa Bryce's introduction to his Gaborone zakah talks (Botswana Muslim Association, March 2009) — and on Bokhari & Shah's peer-reviewed overview in Abhath (2021) for the joint description of the couple. Their fact sets differ (the Morocco conversion and community work in the first; the Norwich school, the Córdoba community and the Cape Town posts in the second), and library records of his translations corroborate the corpus. QUEUE CORRECTION: the queue's birth year 1940 is attested in no source reached and is NOT recorded; the record carries no born block rather than an unverified date. Identity: the bearer — the British translator of the Muwatta, ash-Shifa and The Noble Qur'an with Aisha Bewley, pinned by the two biographies. Relations written: spouse_of to Aisha Bewley, written once here in the elder's record — the marriage is attested by two independent families (the Dar Al Taqwa author biographies, which call Aisha 'his wife' and the Qur'an 'produced with her husband', and the Botswana introduction, which records that he 'met and married his wife... Aisha Abdarrahman'); the English biography's statement that he is the father of her three children is the same fact in a third telling.",
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   "run": "century-additions-142"
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