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  "ar": "عبد الرؤوف فطرت",
  "en": "Abdurauf Fitrat",
  "ur": "عبدالرؤف فطرت"
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  "ar": "كاتب وعالم وسياسي أوزبكي من بخارى (1886–1938م)، من أبرز منظّري حركة الجديد في آسيا الوسطى، تولى مناصب في حكومة جمهورية بخارى الشعبية السوفييتية، ودرّس في جامعات طشقند وسمرقند، وأُعدم في التطهير الكبير.",
  "en": "Uzbek Jadid writer, scholar and politician from Bukhara (1886–1938), a leading ideologue of the Central Asian jadid movement who served in the government of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, taught at universities in Tashkent and Samarkand, and was executed in the Great Purge."
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   "note": "Born in Bukhara in 1886, the year given by the English, Russian and Uzbek articles. The year is contested: Fitrat himself stated 1884 (reported by the English article from Allworth), the Russian article notes 1885 as an alternative, the Uzbek infobox gives 1887, and Wikidata carries competing year-precision values for 1885 and 1886. No source consulted gives a Hijri pairing, so no hijri value is recorded.",
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   "edtf": "1938-10-04",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Executed in Tashkent on 4 October 1938 during the Great Purge. The English article states from archival documents that the execution was carried out on 4 October 1938, the day before his conviction, and the Russian and Uzbek articles concur; Wikidata's 5 October 1938 is not followed. No source consulted gives a Hijri pairing, so no hijri value is recorded.",
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    "value": "عبد الرؤوف بن عبد الرحيم",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "Abdurrauf Fitrat",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Abdulrauf Fitrat",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Abdurauf Abdurahim oʻgʻli",
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   {
    "value": "Fitrat",
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   "edtf": "1886",
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   "note": "Born in Bukhara in 1886, the year given by the English, Russian and Uzbek articles. The year is contested: Fitrat himself stated 1884 (reported by the English article from Allworth), the Russian article notes 1885 as an alternative, the Uzbek infobox gives 1887, and Wikidata carries competing year-precision values for 1885 and 1886. No source consulted gives a Hijri pairing, so no hijri value is recorded.",
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   "edtf": "1938-10-04",
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   "note": "Executed in Tashkent on 4 October 1938 during the Great Purge. The English article states from archival documents that the execution was carried out on 4 October 1938, the day before his conviction, and the Russian and Uzbek articles concur; Wikidata's 5 October 1938 is not followed. No source consulted gives a Hijri pairing, so no hijri value is recorded.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source consulted names a school or order for Fitrat. The English, Russian and Uzbek infoboxes carry no religion field, and Wikidata records only Islam in general. The texts attest his maktab and Mir-i-Arab madrasa formation in Bukhara, a devout Muslim father (family background), early pan-Islamic writings from his Istanbul years, and a later reformist critique of the clerical establishment: in a 1929 autobiographical statement he wrote that he had wanted to separate religion from superstition and had found that nothing remained of religion once it was separated. That statement is a scholarly description of his reform thought in a single tradition, not an affiliation attestation and not a second-source attestation of personal unbelief. Jadidism is a movement, not a school. With no school reading in any source, the value is unknown under the two-source rule (generic-only configuration).",
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   "source": "English, Russian and Uzbek Wikipedia articles on Abdurauf Fitrat read in full at recorded revisions, and Wikidata item Q317907 (grounded through the English article's page property, read twice identically), 27 October 2026",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعليمه وإسطنبول",
     "markdown": "وُلد في بخارى سنة 1886م — وهي سنة ذكر هو نفسه غيرها 1884م، بينما تذكر المقالة الروسية 1885م بديلًا ويعطي صندوق المعلومات الأوزبكي 1887م {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-ru} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-uz} {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. درس في مكتب ثم في مدرسة مير عرب في بخارى، ثم حجّ وأقام في إسطنبول في أوائل العقد الثاني من القرن العشرين حيث التحق بمدرسة الواعظين وتأثر بالإصلاحية الإسلامية {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. وتذكر المقالة الإنجليزية أن محمود خوجة بهبودي كان مرشدًا له: نشر في مجلته «آيينه»، وكتب بهبودي مقدمة لكتابه «بيانات سياح هندي» {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. توجد مقالات لفطرت بالإنجليزية والروسية والأوزبكية، ولا توجد طبعة عربية لمقالته، فكُتب هذا النص العربي من المصادر المتاحة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "قائد الجديد والوزير",
     "markdown": "بعد عودته إلى آسيا الوسطى صار فطرت من قادة جديديي بخارى، وبعد سقوط الإمارة تولى مناصب في حكومة جمهورية بخارى الشعبية السوفييتية {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. كان وراء جعل الأوزبكية لغة بخارى الوطنية سنة 1921م، وشارك في لاتينة الأوزبكية والطاجيكية، وأثارت دعوته إلى الأبجدية الجديدة سنة 1921م مقاومة رفاق له منهم صدر الدين عيني {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. ثم درّس في كليات وجامعات طشقند وسمرقند وشغل منصبًا بحثيًا في أكاديمية علوم أوزبكستان السوفييتية، وصار أول أوزبكي ينال لقب الأستاذية سنة 1926م {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-ru}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "في تطهير ستالين الكبير اعتُقل فطرت وحوكم بتهم النشاط المضاد للثورة والقومي؛ وتُظهر وثائق الأرشيف التي تستشهد بها المقالة الإنجليزية أنه أُعدم في طشقند في 4 أكتوبر 1938م، في اليوم السابق لإدانته، بينما تحمل ويكي بيانات 5 أكتوبر {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. حُظرت أعماله عقودًا، وأُعيد اعتباره سنة 1956م {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقيدته",
     "markdown": "لا يذكر أي مصدر مقروء مدرسة أو طريقة لفطرت: فصناديق معلومات الطبعات الإنجليزية والروسية والأوزبكية لا تحمل خانة للدين، وتحمل ويكي بيانات الإسلام عمومًا فقط {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. وتذكر النصوص تكوينه في المدرسة، وأباه المتدين، ومقالاته الإسلامية الجامعة المبكرة، ونقده الإصلاحي اللاحق — ومنه قوله سنة 1929م إنه أراد فصل الدين عن الخرافة فوجد أنه لا يبقى من الدين شيء بعد فصله — لكن شيئًا من ذلك لا يثبت انتماء، والجديدية حركة لا مدرسة {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. لذلك سُجّلت عقيدته غير معروفة وفق قاعدة المصدرين."
    },
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Education and Istanbul",
     "markdown": "Fitrat was born in Bukhara in 1886 — a year he himself elsewhere gave as 1884, while the Russian article notes 1885 and the Uzbek infobox gives 1887 {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-ru} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-uz} {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. He studied at a maktab and at the Mir-i-Arab madrasa in Bukhara, then travelled for the hajj and settled in Istanbul in the early 1910s, where he attended the Vaizin madrasah and came into contact with Islamic reformism {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. In the English article's account, Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy was a mentor to him: he published in Behbudiy's journal Oyina, and Behbudiy wrote a foreword to his Bayonoti sayyohi hindi {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The jadid leader and minister",
     "markdown": "After returning to Central Asia, Fitrat became a leader of the Bukharan jadids and, after the fall of the emirate, held posts in the government of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. He was responsible for the change to Uzbek as Bukhara's national language in 1921, took part in the Latinisation of Uzbek and Tajik, and his advocacy of the new alphabet in 1921 provoked resistance from fellow activists including Sadriddin Ayni {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. He later taught at colleges and universities in Tashkent and Samarkand and held a research post at the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, becoming the first Uzbek to receive the title of professor, in 1926 {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-ru}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "In Stalin's Great Purge, Fitrat was arrested and prosecuted for counter-revolutionary and nationalist activities; archival documents cited by the English article show that he was executed at Tashkent on 4 October 1938, the day before his conviction, while Wikidata carries 5 October {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. His work was banned for decades; he was rehabilitated in 1956 {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Faith",
     "markdown": "No source read names a school or order for Fitrat: the English, Russian and Uzbek infoboxes carry no religion field and Wikidata records only Islam in general {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. The texts attest his madrasa formation, a devout father, early pan-Islamic essays and a later reformist critique — including a 1929 statement that he had wanted to separate religion from superstition and found that nothing remained of religion once it was separated — but none of that attests an affiliation, and Jadidism is a movement, not a school {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. His faith segment is therefore recorded as unknown under the two-source rule."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعلیم اور استنبول",
     "markdown": "وہ 1886ء میں بخارا میں پیدا ہوئے — یہ وہ سال ہے جس کی جگہ انہوں نے خود 1884ء بھی بتایا، جب کہ روسی مضمون 1885ء کو متبادل کے طور پر درج کرتا ہے اور ازبک معلوماتی خانہ 1887ء دیتا ہے {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-ru} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-uz} {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. انہوں نے بخارا کے مکتب اور میر عرب مدرسے میں تعلیم پائی، پھر حج کیا اور 1910ء کی دہائی کے اوائل میں استنبول مقیم رہے، جہاں واعظین مدرسے میں پڑھا اور اسلامی اصلاحیت سے متاثر ہوئے {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. انگریزی مضمون کے مطابق محمود خواجہ بهبودی ان کے مرشد تھے: فطرت نے ان کے رسالے «آیینہ» میں لکھا اور بهبودی نے ان کی کتاب «بیاناتِ سیاحِ ہندی» کا مقدمہ لکھا {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. فطرت پر انگریزی، روسی اور ازبک مضامین موجود ہیں، اردو طبع موجود نہیں، اس لیے یہ اردو متن دستیاب ذرائع سے لکھا گیا ہے۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جدید رہنما اور وزیر",
     "markdown": "وسطی ایشیا واپسی پر فطرت بخارا کے جدیدیوں کے رہنما بنے اور امارت کے خاتمے کے بعد بخارا عوامی سوویت جمہوریہ کی حکومت میں عہدے سنبھالے {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. 1921ء میں ازبک کو بخارا کی قومی زبان بنانے کے پیچھے انہی کا ہاتھ تھا، انہوں نے ازبک اور تاجک کی لاطینی کاری میں حصہ لیا، اور 1921ء میں نئے حروف کی ان کی حمایت پر صدر الدین عینی سمیت رفقا نے مزاحمت کی {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. بعد میں انہوں نے تاشقند اور سمرقند کے کالجوں اور جامعات میں پڑھایا اور ازبک سوویت اکیڈمی آف سائنسز میں تحقیقی عہدہ سنبھالا، اور 1926ء میں پروفیسر کا خطاب پانے والے پہلے ازبک بنے {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-ru}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "اسٹالن کی عظیم صفائی میں فطرت گرفتار ہوئے اور انقلاب مخالف و قوم پرستانہ سرگرمیوں کے الزام میں مقدمہ چلا؛ انگریزی مضمون کے حوالہ کردہ دستاویزی شواہد بتاتے ہیں کہ انہیں 4 اکتوبر 1938ء کو تاشقند میں سزائے موت دی گئی، ان کی سزا کے اعلان سے ایک دن پہلے، جب کہ وکی ڈیٹا 5 اکتوبر درج کرتا ہے {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en} {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. ان کی تصانیف دہائیوں تک ممنوع رہیں؛ 1956ء میں ان کی بحالی ہوئی {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقیدہ",
     "markdown": "کوئی بھی مطالعہ کردہ ماخذ فطرت کے لیے کوئی مسلک یا سلسلہ نہیں بتاتا: انگریزی، روسی اور ازبک معلوماتی خانوں میں مذہب کا خانہ نہیں، اور وکی ڈیٹا صرف اسلام عام درج کرتا ہے {cite:wikidata-fitrat}. متون میں ان کی مدرسائی تربیت، متدین والد، ابتدائی پان اسلامی مضامین اور بعد کی اصلاحی تنقید ملتی ہے — جس میں 1929ء کا یہ بیان بھی ہے کہ وہ مذہب کو خرافات سے الگ کرنا چاہتے تھے مگر پایا کہ الگ کرنے کے بعد مذہب کا کچھ باقی نہیں رہتا — لیکن ان میں سے کوئی چیز وابستگی ثابت نہیں کرتی، اور جدیدیت ایک تحریک ہے، مسلک نہیں {cite:wikipedia-fitrat-en}. اس لیے ان کا عقیدہ دو ماخذی قاعدے کے تحت نامعلوم درج ہے۔"
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