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  "ar": "أحمد بن خالد الناصري",
  "en": "Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri",
  "ur": "احمد بن خالد ناصری"
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  "ar": "مؤرخ مغربي من سلا (1835–1897)، يُعد أكبر مؤرخي المغرب في القرن التاسع عشر؛ تولى مناصب مخزنية في الأحباس والمراسي، وألف «الاستقصا لأخبار دول المغرب الأقصى» في تاريخ المغرب والغرب الإسلامي، وله «تعظيم المنة بنصرة السنة» في نقد البدع والتصوف عصره.",
  "en": "Moroccan historian from Salé (1835–1897), considered the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He held Makhzen posts over endowments and ports, and wrote the Kitab al-Istiqsa, a multi-volume history of Morocco and the Islamic west, and Ta'zim al-minna bi-nusrat al-sunna, against the innovations and Sufism of his time.",
  "ur": "سلا کے مراکشی مؤرخ (1835–1897)، جنہیں انیسویں صدی کا مراکش کا سب سے بڑا مؤرخ سمجھا جاتا ہے؛ مخزن کے اوقاف و بندرگاہوں کے عہدوں پر فائز رہے، اور «الاستقصا لأخبار دول المغرب الأقصى» نامی کثیر الجلدی تاریخِ مراکش لکھی، نیز اپنے دور کی بدعات و تصوف کے رد میں «تعظيم المنة بنصرة السنة» تصنیف کی۔"
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  "earliest": 1835.2977131631724,
  "latest": 1897.7849647836395
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   "note": "Born at Salé. The English infobox and body, the Arabic infobox and Wikidata give 20 April 1835; the Arabic lead gives 22 March 1835 and the English body also names 22 March as the alternative, so the day is recorded as debated. The Arabic article's categories give his birth year as 1250 AH. Salé has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1897-10-13",
   "hijri": "1315",
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   "note": "Died at Salé. The English article, the Arabic infobox and Wikidata give 13 October 1897; the Arabic lead gives 12 October 1897, so the day is recorded as debated. The Arabic article's categories give his death year as 1315 AH. Salé has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "note": "No source names a madhhab or a settled personal affiliation for him. The English, French and Urdu texts describe him as a member of the family that founded the Nasiriyya Sufi order in the 17th century, which is family background. The Arabic text goes further in both directions: it records his youthful attachment to the family's Nasiriyya zawiya at Tamkrout, and then his public turn against Sufism, teaching and writing against it, above all in his Ta'zim al-minna bi-nusrat al-sunna (1311/1893) against innovations. A youthful affiliation later repudiated in print is not two sources naming a current school, and neither a sufi nor any other value is recorded; the full configuration is preserved here.",
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   "source": "English, French, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri, each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1364908920, FR 213433693, AR 76077414, UR 6756156) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q2827465 (revision 2550446672). Existence checks by name fragments (al-Nasiri, an-Nasiri, الناصري) and by QID across data/person and data/source found no prior record for him (other al-Nasiri records are different people). The lane queue gives 1835–1897, confirmed; the day-level variants inside the Arabic article (22 March birth, 12 October death) are disclosed as debated. No family edge is written: his Nasiriyya ancestors have no records and descent is carried in prose.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أبو العباس أحمد بن خالد الناصري السلاوي الجعفري (1835–1897) مؤرخ مغربي من سلا، صاحب كتاب «الاستقصا لأخبار دول المغرب الأقصى»، ويُعد أكبر مؤرخي المغرب في القرن التاسع عشر.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar} {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته",
     "markdown": "وُلد بسلا سنة 1835 — تعطي المقالات 20 أبريل، وتذكر 22 مارس أيضًا — ونشأ في إطار ثقافة دينية تقليدية، مع انتسابه إلى الزاوية الناصرية التامكروتية الواقعة بوادي درعة.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar} وقد انتدبه السلطان الحسن الأول في سلك موظفي الدولة في عدة وظائف سامية رغم امتناعه عنها، فتولى الإشراف على إدارة الأحباس وأمانة عدة مراسٍ، وتنقل بين فاس ومكناس وتطوان ومراكش وغيرها جامعًا مواد تاريخه.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar} وتذكر المقالة الفرنسية أنه عمل في الإدارة القضائية للمخزن، وأنه من الأسرة السلاوية التي أسست الزاوية الناصرية الصوفية.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "التصوف: انتساب ثم انقلاب",
     "markdown": "التزم الناصري بزاوية تامكروت في شبابه، لكنه سرعان ما رحل في طلب العلم، وتصدى للتدريس والإفتاء وتفرغ للتصنيف، وانقلب على الصوفية وأعلن حربًا عليها بالمغرب بكتابه «تعظيم المنة بنصرة السنة» حول البدع المحدثة في الدين (1311/1893).{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مؤلفاته ووفاته",
     "markdown": "من مؤلفاته: «تمام المنة في الذب عن السنة»، و«كشف العرين عن ليوث بني مرين» (1295/1878)، و«الفوائد المحققة» (1291/1874)، و«طلعة المشتري في النسب الجعفري».{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar} ومنذ بلوغه الأربعين شرع في جمع مواد «الاستقصا» واستمر نحو عشرين سنة حتى فرغ منه سنة 1894، وتوفي بسلا بعد ثلاث سنوات، سنة 1897 — في 13 أكتوبر عند المقالة الإنجليزية وصندوق المعلومات العربي، وفي 12 أكتوبر عند متن المقالة العربية.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar} {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-en}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri al-Salawi (1835–1897) was a Moroccan historian considered to be the greatest of the 19th century.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-en} He wrote the multi-volume Kitab al-Istiqsa li-akhbar duwal al-Maghrib al-Aqsa, a general history of Morocco and the Islamic west from the Islamic conquest to the end of the 19th century.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "He was born in Salé in 1835 — the articles give 20 April, with 22 March also named — and descended from the Arab tribe of Maqil.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-en} {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar} He was a member of the family that founded the Nasiriyya Sufi order in the 17th century.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-en} The French article adds that he made his career in the judicial administration of the Makhzen.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-fr} The Arabic article records that Sultan Hassan I pressed him into state service despite his reluctance, and that he travelled through Fez, Meknes, Tetouan, Tangier's region and Marrakech gathering the materials of his history.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sufism, early attachment and later opposition",
     "markdown": "The Arabic article records that he attached himself in his youth to the Nasiriyya zawiya at Tamkrout, but soon left it to seek knowledge, and that he turned against Sufism, declaring war on it in Morocco with his book Ta'zim al-minna bi-nusrat al-sunna, against religious innovations.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar} Among his other works are Tamam al-minna fi al-dhabb 'an al-sunna, Kashf al-'arin 'an luyuth Bani Marin (1295/1878) and Tal'at al-mushtari fi al-nasab al-Ja'fari.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Istiqsa and death",
     "markdown": "From the age of forty he spent some twenty years gathering the materials of the Istiqsa, finishing it in 1894.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar} He died in Salé in 1897, shortly after putting the finishing touches to his chronicle — on 13 October by the English article and the Arabic infobox, 12 October by the Arabic lead.{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-en} {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ابو العباس احمد بن خالد الناصری السلاوی (1835ء–1897ء) سلا کے مراکشی مؤرخ تھے جنہیں مراکش کا انیسویں صدی کا سب سے بڑا مؤرخ سمجھا جاتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور تصنیفات",
     "markdown": "وہ ایک ممتاز عالم اور اس خاندان کے فرد تھے جس نے سترھویں صدی میں ناصریہ صوفی سلسلے کی بنیاد رکھی، اور انہوں نے مراکش کی تاریخ پر «الاستقصا لأخبار دول المغرب الأقصى» نامی اہم کتاب لکھی۔{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ur} عربی مقالہ بیان کرتا ہے کہ جوانی میں وہ تامکروت کی ناصریہ زاویہ سے وابستہ رہے، پھر تصوف کے خلاف ہو گئے اور اس کے رد میں «تعظیم المنة بنصرة السنة» لکھی۔{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "انہوں نے 1894 میں «الاستقصا» مکمل کیا اور 1897 میں سلا میں وفات پائی۔{cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ur} {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-ibn-khalid-al-nasiri-ar}"
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