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 "id": "person/abdolreza-helali",
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 "label": {
  "ar": "عبد الرضا هلالي",
  "en": "Abdolreza Helali",
  "ur": "عبدالرضا ہلالی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدّاح إيراني، وُلد في خرمشهر سنة 1981 ونشأ في طهران، واشتهر بابتكاراته في المدح لا سيما أسلوب الشور وبقيادة هيئة الرضا في طهران، وأسّس سنة 2022 مجمع «تكية آغا مرتضى علي» الثقافي الاجتماعي؛ بلغ حسابه على إنستغرام 508,193 متابعًا في نوفمبر 2026 عند قراءته على المنصة.",
  "en": "Iranian maddah (eulogist), born in Khorramshahr in 1981 and raised in Tehran, known for his innovations in maddahi, especially the shoor style, and for leading Tehran's Heyat al-Reza; in 2022 he founded the Takiyegah Agha Morteza Ali cultural and social complex. His Instagram account counted 508,193 followers in November 2026 when read on the platform.",
  "ur": "ایرانی مداح، جو 1981ء میں خرمشہر میں پیدا ہوئے اور تہران میں پروان چڑھے؛ وہ مداحی میں اپنی اختراعات، خصوصاً «شور» اسلوب، اور تہران کی ہیئت الرضا کی قیادت کے لیے مشہور ہیں، اور ان کے انسٹاگرام اکاؤنٹ کے فالوور نومبر 2026ء میں پلیٹ فارم پر پڑھنے پر 508,193 تھے۔"
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  "earliest": 1981.8387098982182,
  "latest": 1981.8414478051936
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1981-11-03",
   "hijri": "1402",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Born in Khorramshahr, Iran, on 3 November 1981: in his own published Fars interview Helali states he was born on 12 Aban 1360 in Khorramshahr — 12 Aban converts to 3 November — and explains that his birth certificate was backdated into the month of Shahrivar (September) for schooling, which accounts for the 3 September 1981 given in the English Wikipedia infobox against its own prose's 3 November. Persian Wikipedia's infobox likewise gives 12 Aban 1360 in Khorramshahr, though its personal-life section says Abadan, an internal slip noted here; his own statement and the English article's prose agree on Khorramshahr. There is no place record for Khorramshahr, so no born_in edge is written. Hijri year 1402 derived from the Gregorian date.",
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    "source/wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en",
    "source/wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-fa"
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    "kind": "full",
    "value": "عبدالرضا هلالی"
   },
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "value": "Abdolreza Helali"
   },
   {
    "kind": "alternate",
    "value": "رضا هلالی"
   },
   {
    "kind": "alternate",
    "value": "Reza Helali"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "English Wikipedia's Career section says Helali 'is recognized as a Shiite religious singer and a prominent figure in the art of maddahi' — one text, and its Shia wording attaches to his profession as a religious singer, which never counts under this lane's rule. Persian Wikipedia, independently authored, calls him only an 'Iranian maddah' and attests no school; the Arabic article closely mirrors the English one and adds nothing independent; his own long Fars interview speaks of him throughout as a maddah and zakir of the Ahl al-Bayt, again his profession, and his leadership of Heyat al-Reza is headship, which never counts. His faith therefore stays unknown, with the single reading preserved here.",
    "sources": [
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     "source/parsnews-helali-fars-interview"
    ]
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  "roles": [
   "munshid"
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   "edtf": "1981-11-03",
   "hijri": "1402",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Born in Khorramshahr, Iran, on 3 November 1981: in his own published Fars interview Helali states he was born on 12 Aban 1360 in Khorramshahr — 12 Aban converts to 3 November — and explains that his birth certificate was backdated into the month of Shahrivar (September) for schooling, which accounts for the 3 September 1981 given in the English Wikipedia infobox against its own prose's 3 November. Persian Wikipedia's infobox likewise gives 12 Aban 1360 in Khorramshahr, though its personal-life section says Abadan, an internal slip noted here; his own statement and the English article's prose agree on Khorramshahr. There is no place record for Khorramshahr, so no born_in edge is written. Hijri year 1402 derived from the Gregorian date.",
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    "source/wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en",
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   "source/instagram-rezahelaliofficial"
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "The wave-194 harvest entry (Abdolreza Helali, Iran, Tier 2; Instagram @rezahelaliofficial, harvest reach 600K from post metadata of 4 July 2025, ranking screenshots about 538K), researched against the English and Persian Wikipedia articles, his long Fars News Agency interview republished by Pars News, and his Instagram profile, all read in full on 7 November 2026. Live count re-read at build, as Tier 2 requires: the on-platform profile read of 7 November 2026 showed 508,193 followers — lower than both harvest figures but well above the lane threshold, and the figure carried in this record, the disagreement disclosed in the Instagram source note. The harvest's birth data (b. 1981, Khorramshahr) was confirmed and refined to 3 November 1981 on his own statement. No Wikidata item was verified by opening an item in this run (searches surfaced no item), so no wikidata id is recorded. No place record for Khorramshahr or Tehran exists in the tree, so no place edges are written; his Heyat al-Reza affiliation is carried in prose only.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Wonder)",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "عبد الرضا هلالي — ويُعرف برضا هلالي — مدّاح إيراني اشتهر بابتكاراته في المدح، لا سيما في أسلوب الشور، وبقيادته هيئة الرضا في طهران. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} بلغ حسابه على إنستغرام 508,193 متابعًا في نوفمبر 2026 بحسب قراءة على المنصة في 7 نوفمبر 2026 — وهو رقم منصّة مؤرخ، لا قياس يجريه المتحف بنفسه. {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد هلالي في 12 آبان 1360 بالتقويم الفارسي ⁦(3 نوفمبر 1981)⁩ في خرمشهر ونشأ في طهران، كما قال هو نفسه في مقابلته مع وكالة فارس، موضحًا أن شهادة ميلاده أُرّخت بشهر شهريور ⁦(سبتمبر)⁩ لتيسير التحاقه بالمدرسة، ولذلك ترد في بعض الجداول ولادته في 3 سبتمبر. {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} درس في المدرسة الفنية رسم البناء، ودرس فصلين من الحقوق القضائية في الجامعة ثم ترك الدراسة كليةً. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-fa} {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} وهو متزوج وله ابنتان، ويعمل إلى جانب المدح في وساطة السيارات بحسب ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "البدايات والمسيرة",
     "markdown": "بدأ هلالي ترديد الشعر الديني في الحادية عشرة، وكان تلميذًا لعباس صابري، مؤسس «هيئة الرضا، محفل الباسيجيين ورهروان الشهداء» في طهران، وبعد استشهاد صابري تولى هو الترديد في الهيئة في الرابعة عشرة. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} ووسّع أنشطة هيئة الرضا، فأقام مجالسها أولًا في مسجد أبي ذر الكبير ثم في حسينية القهروديين، واستقرت لاحقًا في حسينية مجتمع الخُميني شهريين المُجدَّدة. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} وقال في مقابلته إن جمهور هيئته في أكثر لياليها ازدحامًا يبلغ سبعة إلى ثمانية آلاف شخص. {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأعمال والمديح",
     "markdown": "يُعرف هلالي بأسلوب الشور في المدح، وقد دافع عنه في مقابلته قائلًا إن الجمهور يطلبه ويحتاجه. {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} ومن أعماله المسجلة: «رفيقم حسين» ⁦(«رفيقي حسين»)⁩ مع حامد زماني، و«شاه حريم الغصه والغم» من محرم 1386، و«يه عالمه گريه به روضه بدهكارم»، و«به علي دلبستم عشقو فهميدم»، و«ماه روی نيزه‌ها». {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} وفي سنة 2022 ⁦(1401 بالتقويم الفارسي)⁩ أسّس في حي هرندي بطهران مجمع «تكية آغا مرتضى علي» الثقافي الاجتماعي، موسّعًا عمل هيئة الرضا من المجالس الدينية إلى الخدمة الاجتماعية، إذ يقدّم المجمع خدمات صحية وغذائية ودعمًا للمتعافين من الإدمان. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المواقف والنقد",
     "markdown": "في انتخابات الرئاسة الإيرانية سنة 2017 أيّد هلالي محمد باقر قاليباف، ثم إبراهيم رئيسي بعد انسحاب قاليباف، وبعد فوز حسن روحاني انضم إلى أنصاره في احتفالهم ووزّع الحلوى، فانتشر مقطع لذلك وأثار ردودًا متباينة. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} وفي يوليو 2017 اعتُقل مع مدّاحين آخرين على يد جهاز استخبارات الحرس الثوري، ولم تؤكد أي جهة رسمية التهم، وتداولت وسائل الإعلام اتهامات غير رسمية، فيما قال المتحدث باسم القضاء إن القضية ليست أمنية؛ ومنذ فاطمية 2019 عاد هلالي إلى المدح العلني واستؤنفت جلسات هيئته الأسبوعية في حسينية مهديون بطهران. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-fa} وتُروى هذه الوقائع هنا كما وثّقتها الموسوعتان، منسوبةً إلى مصادرها ومن دون حكم من المتحف."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر والجمهور",
     "markdown": "بلغ حسابه على إنستغرام ⁦(@rezahelaliofficial)⁩ نحو 508,193 متابعًا عند قراءته على المنصة في 7 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial} وكانت قراءات سابقة للحساب نفسه قد أعطت نحو 600 ألف متابع في بيانات منشورات يوليو 2025 و538 ألفًا في لقطات تصنيفات ربيع 2025؛ فاعتُمدت القراءة الأحدث، وهي فوق عتبة هذا المسار بكثير رغم انخفاضها. {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- مقالة ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية عن عبد الرضا هلالي، قُرئت كاملة في 7 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en}\n- مقالة ويكيبيديا الفارسية عن عبد الرضا هلالي، قُرئت كاملة في 7 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-fa}\n- مقابلته مع وكالة فارس، أعادت بارس نيوز نشرها، قُرئت كاملة في 7 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview}\n- حسابه على إنستغرام ⁦(@rezahelaliofficial)⁩، قُرئ على المنصة في 7 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Abdolreza Helali — commonly known as Reza Helali — is an Iranian maddah (eulogist) known for his innovations in maddahi, especially in the shoor style, and for leading Tehran's Heyat al-Reza. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} His Instagram account counted 508,193 followers in November 2026, read on the platform on 7 November 2026 — a dated platform figure, not a measurement the museum makes itself. {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "Helali was born on 12 Aban 1360 in the Persian calendar (3 November 1981) in Khorramshahr and raised in Tehran, as he stated himself in his Fars News Agency interview, explaining that his birth certificate was backdated into the month of Shahrivar (September) to ease his school enrolment — which is why some tables give his birth as 3 September. {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} He studied building drafting at technical school and read judicial law at university for two terms before leaving his studies altogether. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-fa} {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} He is married with two daughters and, in addition to maddahi, works in car brokerage, according to English Wikipedia. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Beginnings and career",
     "markdown": "Helali began reciting religious poetry at the age of 11; he was a student of Abbas Saberi, the founder of the \"Heyat al-Reza, Gathering of Basijis and Followers of the Martyrs\" in Tehran, and after Saberi's martyrdom he took over the recitations for the gathering at 14. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} He expanded Heyat al-Reza's activities, holding its gatherings first at the Abu Dhar Grand Mosque, then at the Qahroudi Hosseiniyah, and later at a permanent base in the renovated Hosseiniyah of the Khomeinishahri community. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} In his interview he put the crowd at his hey'at's busiest nights at seven to eight thousand people. {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works and recitations",
     "markdown": "Helali is known for the shoor style of maddahi, which he defended in his interview on the grounds that the audience asks for it and needs it. {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} His recorded works include \"Rafigham Hossein\" (\"My Friend Is Hossein\"), with Hamed Zamani, \"O King of Sorrow and Grief's Shrine\" (Muharram 2007), \"I Owe a World of Tears to the Mourning Ceremonies\", \"I Fell for Ali and Discovered Love\" and \"The Moon on the Spears\". {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} In 2022 (1401 in the Iranian calendar) he founded the Takiyegah Agha Morteza Ali cultural-social complex in Tehran's Harandi neighbourhood, expanding Heyat al-Reza's work from religious gatherings to social services: the complex provides healthcare, wellness and nutrition services to people struggling with addiction. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Controversies",
     "markdown": "During the 2017 Iranian presidential election Helali supported Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and after Ghalibaf's withdrawal endorsed Ebrahim Raisi; after Hassan Rouhani won, he joined Rouhani's supporters in celebrating and distributed sweets, and a video of the event drew varied reactions. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} In July 2017 he was arrested, along with other maddahs, by the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; no official body confirmed the charges, unofficial accusations circulated online, and the judiciary spokesperson later said the case was not security-related; from the Fatimiyya period of 2019 Helali resumed public eulogies, and his hey'at's weekly gatherings continued at the Mehdioun Hosseiniyah in Tehran. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-fa} These episodes are reported here as the encyclopaedias document them, attributed to their sources and without a verdict from the museum."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Impact and audience",
     "markdown": "His Instagram account (@rezahelaliofficial) counted 508,193 followers when read on the platform on 7 November 2026. {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial} Earlier readings of the same account had given about 600K followers in post metadata of July 2025 and 538K in the ranking screenshots of spring 2025; the fresher reading is carried, and it remains well above this lane's threshold despite the fall. {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- The English Wikipedia article on Abdolreza Helali, read in full on 7 November 2026. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en}\n- The Persian Wikipedia article on Abdolreza Helali, read in full on 7 November 2026. {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-fa}\n- His interview with Fars News Agency, republished by Pars News, read in full on 7 November 2026. {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview}\n- His Instagram account (@rezahelaliofficial), read on the platform on 7 November 2026. {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عبدالرضا ہلالی — جنہیں رضا ہلالی بھی کہا جاتا ہے — ایرانی مداح ہیں، جو مداحی میں اپنی اختراعات، خصوصاً «شور» اسلوب، اور تہران کی ہیئت الرضا کی قیادت کے لیے مشہور ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} ان کے انسٹاگرام اکاؤنٹ ⁦(@rezahelaliofficial)⁩ کے فالوور 7 نومبر 2026ء کو پلیٹ فارم پر پڑھنے پر 508,193 تھے — یہ مؤرخہ پلیٹ فارم عدد ہے۔ {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور کام",
     "markdown": "وہ فارسی تقویم کے مطابق 12 آبان 1360 ⁦(3 نومبر 1981ء)⁩ کو خرمشہر میں پیدا ہوئے اور تہران میں پروان چڑھے، جیسا کہ انہوں نے خود فارس نیوز سے اپنے انٹرویو میں بیان کیا۔ {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview} انہوں نے گیارہ سال کی عمر میں دینی شاعری پڑھنا شروع کی، عباس صابری کے شاگرد رہے اور ان کی شہادت کے بعد چودہ سال کی عمر میں ہیئت الرضا کی محافل سنبھال لیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} 2022ء میں انہوں نے تہران کے محلہ ہرندی میں ثقافتی و سماجی مجمع «تکیہ گاہ آغا مرتضیٰ علی» قائم کیا، جو نشے کے عادی افراد کے لیے صحت و خوراک کی خدمات فراہم کرتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر اور سامعین",
     "markdown": "ان کے مشہور کاموں میں حامد زمانی کے ساتھ «رفیقم حسین» شامل ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en} اسی اکاؤنٹ کی پچھلی ریڈنگز میں جولائی 2025ء میں تقریباً 600 ہزار اور بہار 2025ء میں 538 ہزار فالوور بتائے گئے تھے؛ تازہ ترین ریڈنگ ⁦(508,193)⁩ ہی اس ریکارڈ میں درج ہے اور یہ اس لین کی حد سے کہیں اوپر ہے۔ {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- عبدالرضا ہلالی پر انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا کا مضمون، 7 نومبر 2026ء کو مکمل پڑھا گیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-abdolreza-helali-en}\n- فارس نیوز سے ان کا انٹرویو، پارس نیوز کی اشاعت، 7 نومبر 2026ء کو مکمل پڑھا گیا۔ {cite:parsnews-helali-fars-interview}\n- ان کا انسٹاگرام اکاؤنٹ، 7 نومبر 2026ء کو پلیٹ فارم پر پڑھا گیا۔ {cite:instagram-rezahelaliofficial}"
    }
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