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  "ar": "أحمد شاه بهادر",
  "en": "Ahmad Shah Bahadur",
  "ur": "احمد شاہ بہادر"
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  "ar": "أحمد شاه بهادر (23 ديسمبر 1725 – 1 يناير 1775)، إمبراطور المغول الرابع عشر، ابن محمد شاه، حكم من 1748 إلى 1754. هزم وهو أميرٌ أحمد شاه الأبدالي عند مانوبور سنة 1748، ثم ترك شؤون الدولة للفصائل المتناحرة حتى خلعه الوزير عماد الملك وسمل عينيه، فقضى بقية عمره سجيناً في دلهي.",
  "en": "Ahmad Shah Bahadur (23 December 1725 – 1 January 1775) was the fourteenth Mughal emperor, a son of Muhammad Shah, reigning from 1748 to 1754. As a prince he defeated Ahmad Shah Abdali at Manupur in 1748, but as emperor he left the state to rival factions until the vizier Imad-ul-Mulk deposed and blinded him; he spent the rest of his life a prisoner at Delhi.",
  "ur": "احمد شاہ بہادر (23 دسمبر 1725ء – 1 جنوری 1775ء) چودھویں مغل بادشاہ، محمد شاہ کے فرزند، 1748ء سے 1754ء تک تخت نشین رہے۔ شہزادے کی حیثیت سے آپ نے 1748ء میں مانوپور کے مقام پر احمد شاہ ابدالی کو شکست دی، مگر بادشاہ بن کر حکومت کی باگ ڈور باہم متحارب گروہوں کے ہاتھ میں چھوڑ دی، یہاں تک کہ وزیر عماد الملک نے آپ کو معزول کر کے اندھا کر دیا؛ آپ نے بقیہ عمر دہلی میں قید میں گزاری۔"
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  "latest": 1775.0035250552398
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata agree at day precision on 23 December 1725; the Hijri year 1138 is converted from the Gregorian date and matches the Arabic article's lead pairing. He was born at Delhi.",
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   "edtf": "1775-01-01",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata agree at day precision on 1 January 1775, at Delhi, where he had been held prisoner since his deposition; the Hijri year 1188 is converted from the Gregorian date (the Arabic article's lead pairs the year 1775 loosely with 1189). He was buried at the Moti Masjid, Mehrauli.",
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    "note": "No source consulted names a legal school for Ahmad Shah Bahadur himself in text. The English article's infobox gives his religion as Sunni Islam (Hanafi) — a single structured attestation that the article body does not corroborate; the Arabic article's infobox religion field is blank, and Wikidata's religion value is Islam generically. The Mughal court's Hanafi tradition is the context of his reign, and a court's tradition never counts as the man's own attestation. Under the lane's doctrine a school is settled only on two independent sources naming it for the person himself, so his faith is recorded as unattested and the infobox attestation is preserved here.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "أحمد شاه بهادر (23 ديسمبر 1725 – 1 يناير 1775) هو إمبراطور المغول الرابع عشر، حكم من 29 أبريل 1748 إلى 2 يونيو 1754، وهو ابن الإمبراطور محمد شاه وقدسيا بيكم {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حكمه وسقوطه",
     "markdown": "ذاعت شهرته وهو أميرٌ بانتصاره في موقعة مانوبور سنة 1748 على غزو أحمد شاه الأبدالي {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}. فلما تولى العرش بعد وفاة أبيه في العام نفسه ترك شؤون إمبراطورية آخذة في الضعف للفصائل المتناحرة في البلاط، فتجمعت السلطة في يد الوزير عماد الملك الذي خلعه وسمل عينيه سنة 1754 وأجلس عالمكير الثاني مكانه {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}. وقضى بقية عمره، عشرين سنة، سجيناً في دلهي حيث توفي في 1 يناير 1775 ودُفن عند المسجد الموتي في مهراولي {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en} {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المذهب",
     "markdown": "لم يرد في المصادر المدروسة ما ينص على مذهبه الفقهي. يعطي صندوق معلومات المقالة الإنجليزية دينه سنّياً حنفياً {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}، لكن خانة الديانة في المقالة العربية فارغة {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-ar}، وتكتفي ويكي بيانات بذكر الإسلام عموماً {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}؛ وشهادة بنيوية واحدة لا تُثبت مذهباً."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظات للباحثين",
     "markdown": "تتفق المقالة الإنجليزية وويكي بيانات على الدقة اليومية في تاريخي ولادته (23 ديسمبر 1725) ووفاته (1 يناير 1775) {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en} {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}. وليس لأبيه محمد شاه سجل في المتحف بعد، فلا تُسجَّل له علاقة أبوة. وهو ليس ابن عالمكير الثاني — بل عالمكير الثاني هو من خَلَفه على العرش بعد خلعه."
    }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ahmad Shah Bahadur (23 December 1725 – 1 January 1775) was the fourteenth Mughal emperor, reigning from 29 April 1748 to 2 June 1754, a son of the emperor Muhammad Shah and Qudsia Begum {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Reign and fall",
     "markdown": "As a prince he won his reputation at the Battle of Manupur in 1748, defeating Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasion {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}. Crowned the same year on his father's death, he left the affairs of a weakening empire to rival court factions, and power gathered in the hands of the vizier Imad-ul-Mulk, who deposed and blinded him in 1754 and raised Alamgir II in his place {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}. He spent the remaining twenty years of his life a prisoner at Delhi and died there on 1 January 1775; he was buried at the Moti Masjid in Mehrauli {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en} {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Faith",
     "markdown": "His legal school is unattested in the sources consulted. The English article's infobox gives Sunni Islam (Hanafi) {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}, but the Arabic article's infobox leaves the religion field blank {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-ar} and Wikidata records Islam generically {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}; a single structured attestation does not settle a school."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Notes for researchers",
     "markdown": "The English article and Wikidata agree at day precision on both his birth (23 December 1725) and his death (1 January 1775) {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en} {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}. His father Muhammad Shah has no museum record yet, so no father edge is recorded. He was not a son of Alamgir II — Alamgir II was the successor placed on the throne after his deposition."
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "احمد شاہ بہادر (23 دسمبر 1725ء – 1 جنوری 1775ء) چودھویں مغل بادشاہ تھے؛ آپ 29 اپریل 1748ء سے 2 جون 1754ء تک تخت نشین رہے اور بادشاہ محمد شاہ اور قدسیہ بیگم کے فرزند تھے {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-ur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عہد اور زوال",
     "markdown": "شہزادے کی حیثیت سے آپ نے 1748ء میں مانوپور کی لڑائی میں احمد شاہ ابدالی کے حملے کو پسپا کر کے شہرت پائی {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}۔ اسی سال والد کی وفات پر تخت نشین ہو کر آپ نے زوال پذیر سلطنت کے معاملات دربار کے متحارب گروہوں پر چھوڑ دیے، چنانچہ اقتدار وزیر عماد الملک کے ہاتھ میں آ گیا، جس نے 1754ء میں آپ کو معزول کر کے اندھا کر دیا اور عالمگیر ثانی کو تخت پر بٹھایا {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}۔ آپ نے عمر کے باقی بیس سال دہلی میں قید میں گزارے اور وہیں 1 جنوری 1775ء کو وفات پائی؛ آپ مهراولی کی موتی مسجد کے پاس دفن ہیں {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en} {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مسلک",
     "markdown": "مطالعہ شدہ مآخذ میں آپ کے فقہی مسلک کا کوئی ذکر نہیں ملتا۔ انگریزی مقالے کے معلوماتی خانے میں آپ کا مذہب سنی (حنفی) درج ہے {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en}، مگر عربی مقالے میں مذہب کی خانہ خالی ہے {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-ar} اور ویکی ڈیٹا میں صرف اسلام درج ہے {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}؛ ایک اکیلی بناوٹی شہادت سے مسلک ثابت نہیں ہوتا۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "محققین کے لیے نوٹس",
     "markdown": "انگریزی مقالہ اور ویکی ڈیٹا آپ کی ولادت (23 دسمبر 1725ء) اور وفات (1 جنوری 1775ء) دونوں میں یومی درستگی پر متفق ہیں {cite:wikipedia-ahmad-shah-bahadur-en} {cite:wikidata-ahmad-shah-bahadur}۔ آپ کے والد محمد شاہ کا ابھی عجائب گھر میں کوئی ریکارڈ نہیں، اس لیے والد کا تعلق درج نہیں کیا گیا۔ آپ عالمگیر ثانی کے بیٹے نہیں تھے — عالمگیر ثانی آپ کی معزولی کے بعد تخت پر بیٹھے تھے۔"
    }
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