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 "slug": "ahmad-zayni-dahlan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أحمد زيني دحلان",
  "en": "Ahmad Zayni Dahlan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بطاقة أولية لأحمد زيني دحلان، مفتي مكة الشافعي ومؤرخها ومؤلف الفتوحات الإسلامية؛ لم تُراجع ترجمته على الصفحة بعد.",
  "en": "Draft card for Ahmad Zayni Dahlan, Mecca's Shafi'i mufti, its historian, and author of al-Futuhat al-Islamiyya; his entry is not yet checked on the page."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/colonial-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1886.0010130255926,
  "latest": 1887.0003490831118
 },
 "display": {
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1886",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true
  }
 },
 "data": {
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   "scholar"
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "died": {
   "edtf": "1886",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/al-aalam"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q12178897"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Wikidata candidate; entry not yet read on the page in a book source",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "model": "SWE-2 High",
   "run": "wikidata-import-wave2"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/a-k-fazlul-huq",
  "person/abadi-bano-begum",
  "person/abai-qunanbaiuly",
  "person/abbas-hilmi-ii",
  "person/abd-al-hafid-of-morocco",
  "person/abd-al-hamid-al-zahrawi",
  "person/abd-al-qadir-al-maghribi",
  "person/abd-al-rahman-al-kawakibi",
  "person/abd-al-rahman-shahbandar",
  "person/abd-al-razzaq-al-bitar",
  "person/abd-el-krim",
  "person/abdel-khalek-sarwat-pasha"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/hussein-bin-ali-al-hashimi",
   "type": "teacher_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "The English article states that with Sheikh Ahmad Zayni Dahlan he studied the Quran and completed its memorisation before the age of twenty; Dahlan was the Shafi'i mufti of Mecca. A second named teacher, Muhammad Mahmud al-Turkizi al-Shinqiti, has no person record in the museum yet, so no second student_of edge is written.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-hussein-bin-ali-en"
   ]
  }
 ],
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  "event/arab-revolt-1334",
  "group/banu-hashim",
  "person/abdullah-i-of-jordan",
  "person/ali-bin-hussein-al-hashimi",
  "person/faisal-i-of-iraq",
  "place/amman",
  "place/istanbul",
  "place/jerusalem"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}