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  "ar": "فقيه موريتاني (ولد عام 1935 في تمبدغة)، وزير سابق للتعليم والعدل ونائب أول رئيس للجمهورية الموريتانية، يرأس اليوم مجلس الإمارات للإفتاء الشرعي ومنتدى تعزيز السلم في المجتمعات المسلمة ويدرّس في جامعة الملك عبد العزيز بجدة.",
  "en": "Mauritanian jurist (born 1935 in Timbedra), a former minister of education and of justice and vice-president of Mauritania, who now chairs the UAE Council for Fatwa, presides over the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, and teaches at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah."
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    "value": "Abdallah ibn Mahfudh ibn Bayyah"
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    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "عبد الله بن بيه (ولد عام 1935) فقيه موريتاني يرأس مجلس الإمارات للإفتاء الشرعي ومنتدى تعزيز السلم في المجتمعات المسلمة.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} وهو وزير سابق ونائب أول رئيس للجمهورية الموريتانية، يقيم في جدة بالمملكة العربية السعودية حيث يُدرّس في جامعة الملك عبد العزيز.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "ولد عام 1935 في تمبدغة بمنطقة الحوض الشرقي في موريتانيا، في أسرة علمية؛ كان والده المحفوظ بن بيه قاضيًا وعالمًا.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} درس الفقه وأصوله على والده، والعربية على محمد سالم بن الشين، والقرآن على بيه بن السالك المسومي، ثم أُرسل إلى تونس للتدرب على القضاء.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المناصب",
     "markdown": "تولى بعد استقلال موريتانيا وزارتي التعليم والعدل، ومنصب نائب أول رئيس للجمهورية.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en} ثم استقر في جدة أستاذًا في جامعة الملك عبد العزيز، ويرأس مجلس الإمارات للإفتاء الشرعي.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأدوار الدولية",
     "markdown": "يرأس منتدى تعزيز السلم في المجتمعات المسلمة ومقره أبوظبي، وكان نائب رئيس الاتحاد العالمي لعلماء المسلمين؛ تؤرخ المقالة الإنجليزية استقالته بعام 2014 والمقالة العربية بعام 2013.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} وهو من الموقّعين على رسالة عمان والرسالة المفتوحة إلى البغدادي، وأصدر عام 2014 فتوى ضد تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المذهب",
     "markdown": "يعطي صندوق المعلومات الديني في المقالة الإنجليزية، مرجعًا إلى موسوعة برينستون للفكر السياسي الإسلامي، طائفته سنية وعقيدته أشعرية وفقهه مالكيًا، ويعطي صندوق المقالة العربية استقلالًا المذهب المالكي ضمن أهل السنة والجماعة.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} ويصفه المتن الإنجليزي بأنه متخصص في المذاهب السنية الأربعة مع عناية خاصة بالمذهب المالكي، وبأنه من المروّجين للتصوف.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-abdallah-bin-bayyah}}"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Abdallah Bin Bayyah (born 1935) is a Mauritanian jurist who chairs the UAE Council for Fatwa and presides over the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en} A former Mauritanian minister and vice-president, he lives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he is a professor at King Abdulaziz University.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born in 1935 in Timbedra, in the Hodh Ech Chargui region of Mauritania, into a family of scholars; his father, Mahfudh ibn Bayyah, was a judge and scholar.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} He studied Islamic jurisprudence and its principles with his father, Arabic with Mohammed Salem bin al-Sheen, and the Quran with Bayyah bin al-Salik al-Misumi, and was then sent to Tunis for training in legal judgements.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career in Mauritania and afterwards",
     "markdown": "After Mauritania's independence he served as minister of education and as minister of justice, and as vice-president to the country's first president.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en} He later settled in Jeddah as a professor at King Abdulaziz University, and chairs the UAE Council for Fatwa.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "International roles",
     "markdown": "He is president of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, based in Abu Dhabi, and was a vice-president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars; the English article dates his resignation to 2014 and the Arabic article to 2013.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} He signed the Amman Message and the open Letter to Baghdadi, and in 2014 he issued a fatwa against the Islamic State group.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "School",
     "markdown": "The English article's religious infobox, referenced to the Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, records his denomination as Sunni, his creed as Ash'ari and his jurisprudence as Maliki, and the Arabic infobox independently gives the Maliki madhhab within Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama'a.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} The English text describes him as a specialist in all four traditional Sunni schools of law with an emphasis on the Maliki school, and as a promoter of Sufism.{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-abdallah-bin-bayyah}}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عبد اللہ بن بیہ (پیدائش 1935ء) موریطانیہ کے فقیہ ہیں، وہ مجلس الإمارات للإفتاء الشرعی کے سربراہ اور مسلم معاشروں میں امن کے فروغ کے لیے فورم کے صدر ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ur} وہ موریطانیہ کے سابق وزیرِ تعلیم و انصاف اور نائب صدر رہ چکے ہیں اور جدہ میں جامعہ ملک عبد العزیز میں استاد ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ 1935ء میں موریطانیہ کے علاقے الحوض الشرقی کے شہر تمبدغہ میں ایک علمی خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کے والد المحفوظ بن بیہ قاضی اور عالم تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} انھوں نے فقہ و اصول اپنے والد سے، عربی محمد سالم بن الشین سے اور قرآن بیہ بن السالک المسومی سے پڑھا، پھر انھیں قضا کی تربیت کے لیے تیونس بھیجا گیا۔{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مناصب اور بین الاقوامی کردار",
     "markdown": "موریطانیہ کی آزادی کے بعد وہ وزیرِ تعلیم، وزیرِ انصاف اور ملک کے پہلے صدر کے نائب رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en} وہ انٹرنیشنل یونین آف مسلم اسکالرز کے نائب صدر بھی رہے — اردو مقالہ ان کے استعفے کا سال 2013ء اور انگریزی مقالہ 2014ء بتاتا ہے — اور عمان پیغام اور بغدادی کے نام کھلے خط کے دستخط کنندگان میں شامل ہیں، جبکہ 2014ء میں انھوں نے داعش کے خلاف فتویٰ جاری کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ur}{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مذہب",
     "markdown": "انگریزی مقالے کا دینی خانۂ معلومات، جو پرنسٹن انسائیکلوپیڈیا آف اسلامک پولیٹیکل تھاٹ کے حوالے سے ہے، ان کی طائفہ سنی، عقیدہ اشعری اور فقہ مالکی بتاتا ہے، اور عربی خانہ بھی آزادی سے مالکی مذہب دیتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar} اردو مقالے کا متن انھیں مالکی فقیہ کہتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ur}"
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     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-abdallah-bin-bayyah-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-abdallah-bin-bayyah}}"
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