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 "label": {
  "ar": "علي حسن مويني",
  "en": "Ali Hassan Mwinyi",
  "ur": "علی حسن موینی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "سياسي تنزاني (1925–2024) عمل معلما ومدير مدرسة في زنجبار نحو عقدين، ثم صار رئيس زنجبار سنة 1984 وثاني رئيس لتنزانيا من 5 نوفمبر 1985 إلى 23 نوفمبر 1995 خلفا لجوليوس نيريري. خفف القيود على الاستيراد وشجع المشروعات الخاصة واتفق مع صندوق النقد الدولي سنة 1986، وبدأ في عهده الثاني الانتقال إلى التعددية الحزبية. نال جائزة الملك فيصل العالمية في خدمة الإسلام سنة 2022، ومات في دار السلام سنة 2024.",
  "en": "Tanzanian politician (1925–2024) who worked as a teacher and head teacher in Zanzibar for about two decades, then became president of Zanzibar in 1984 and the second president of Tanzania from 5 November 1985 to 23 November 1995, succeeding Julius Nyerere. He relaxed import restrictions, encouraged private enterprise and reached an agreement with the IMF in 1986, and the transition to multi-party politics began in his second term. He received the King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam in 2022 and died at Dar es Salaam in 2024.",
  "ur": "تنزانیہ کے سیاست دان (1925ء–2024ء) جو زنجبار میں تقریباً دو دہائیوں تک استاد اور صدر مدرس رہے، پھر 1984ء میں زنجبار کے صدر اور 5 نومبر 1985ء سے 23 نومبر 1995ء تک تنزانیہ کے دوسرے صدر رہے، جولیس نیریرے کے جانشین کے طور پر۔ انہوں نے درآمدی پابندیاں نرم کیں، نجی کاروبار کی حوصلہ افزائی کی اور 1986ء میں آئی ایم ایف سے معاہدہ کیا، اور ان کی دوسری مدت میں کثیر الجماعتی سیاست کی طرف منتقلی شروع ہوئی۔ انہیں 2022ء میں خدمتِ اسلام پر شاہ فیصل عالمی انعام ملا اور 2024ء میں دارالسلام میں ان کا انتقال ہوا۔"
 },
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1925.3474746230245,
  "latest": 2024.164014319222
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1925-05-08",
   "hijri": "1343",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 8 May 1925 in the village of Kivure, Pwani Region, where he was also raised. No place entity for Kivure exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no born_in relation is written. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
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  "end": {
   "edtf": "2024-02-29",
   "hijri": "1445",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article states that he died of lung cancer at Mzena hospital in Dar es Salaam on 29 February 2024, aged 98; Wikidata agrees on the date and gives Dar es Salaam as the place. No place entity for Dar es Salaam exists in the museum, so no died_in relation is written. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-ali-hassan-mwinyi"
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   {
    "value": "Ali Hassan Mwinyi",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "علي حسن مويني",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "علی حسن موینی",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Mzee Rukhsa",
    "kind": "laqab"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "politician",
   "teacher"
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  "born": {
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   "hijri": "1343",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 8 May 1925 in the village of Kivure, Pwani Region, where he was also raised. No place entity for Kivure exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no born_in relation is written. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "2024-02-29",
   "hijri": "1445",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article states that he died of lung cancer at Mzena hospital in Dar es Salaam on 29 February 2024, aged 98; Wikidata agrees on the date and gives Dar es Salaam as the place. No place entity for Dar es Salaam exists in the museum, so no died_in relation is written. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-ali-hassan-mwinyi"
   ]
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source names a school for him. Wikidata gives his religion (P140) as Islam, with no branch — a single structured value. The English article's text never calls him a Muslim: its religion content is the 2022 King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam, an honour reported also by the Arabic article, and a category filing (Tanzanian Muslims), which never attests; the Urdu article makes no religion statement. The value stays unknown.",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia revision 1376728845 of 25 September 2026, Arabic revision 76623346 of 18 September 2026 and Urdu revision 9909633 of 17 April 2026, each fetched on 27 October 2026 by its recorded revision id and asserted equal to it; Wikidata item Q361581 revision 2557707125 of 16 October 2026, read from the Wikidata API. The man was verified absent from the museum in both directions: no person file matches his name in any script and no museum record carries Q361581. Relations written: he moved to Zanzibar as a boy, was educated there and worked there as a teacher and head teacher, and later served as president of Zanzibar (place record exists). No succession edge is written: he succeeded Julius Nyerere as president of Tanzania and was succeeded by Benjamin Mkapa, and neither man has a museum record. His son Hussein Mwinyi, president of Zanzibar, likewise has no record, so no family edge is written.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد مويني في 8 مايو 1925 في قرية كيفوري بإقليم بواني ونشأ فيها، ثم انتقل إلى زنجبار فنال تعليمه الابتدائي في مدرسة مانغابواني والثانوي في مدرسة ميكينداني دولي، وعمل من 1945 إلى 1964 مدرسا فمعلما فرئيس مدرسة في مدارس مختلفة، وتولى إدارة كلية تدريب المعلمين في زنجبار بعد عودته من إنجلترا سنة 1962، قبل أن يدخل السياسة الوطنية.{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرئاسة",
     "markdown": "تولى مويني رئاسة زنجبار في 30 يناير 1984 وصار في اليوم نفسه نائبا أول لرئيس تنزانيا، ثم خلف نيريري في رئاسة البلاد في 5 نوفمبر 1985 والاقتصاد في أزمة وركود وديون خارجية تتجاوز ثلاثة مليارات دولار.{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} فخفف القيود على الاستيراد وشجع المشروعات الخاصة، واتفق سنة 1986 مع صندوق النقد الدولي على قرض احتياطي بقيمة 78 مليون دولار هو أول قرض أجنبي لتنزانيا منذ أكثر من ست سنوات.{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} وفي ولايته الثانية بدأ الانتقال إلى التعددية الحزبية: فعيّن سنة 1991 لجنة برئاسة رئيس القضاء فرانسيس نيالالي لقياس التأييد الشعبي للنظام الحزبي الواحد، وأيّد توصيتها، فأقرت تعديلات دستورية في فبراير 1992.{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} عُرف بلقب «مزي روخسا» أي «كل شيء مباح» لدفعه تحرير الاقتصاد والقيم دون خرق القانون.{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "التكريم والوفاة",
     "markdown": "نال مويني جائزة الملك فيصل العالمية في خدمة الإسلام سنة 2022.{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ar} ودخل المستشفى في نوفمبر 2023 لعلة في الصدر، ومات بسرطان الرئة في مستشفى مزينا في دار السلام في 29 فبراير 2024 عن عمر 98 عاما.{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة عن السجل",
     "markdown": "لا تسمي المصادر مدرسة دينية لمويني: فويكيداتا تعطي دينه «الإسلام» دون فرع، وهذه قيمة منظمة واحدة؛ والنص الإنجليزي لا يصفه بأنه مسلم، ومحتواه الديني كله هو جائزة الملك فيصل في خدمة الإسلام — وهي تكريم لا انتماء — وتصنيف ملفي هو «مسلمون تنزانيون»، والمقالة الأردية لا تذكر الدين.{cite:wikidata-ali-hassan-mwinyi}{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ur} فسُجّل دينه «غير معروف».\n\nولا توجد في المتحف سجلات لسلفه جوليوس نيريري ولا لخلفه بنيامين مكابا، فلم تُكتب علاقة خلافة؛ وكُتبت علاقته بزنجبار التي عاش وعمل فيها وتولى رئاستها.{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-ali-hassan-mwinyi}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "Mwinyi was born on 8 May 1925 in the village of Kivure, Pwani Region, where he was also raised. He then moved to Zanzibar, where he was educated at Mangapwani Primary School and Mikindani Dole Secondary School, and from 1945 to 1964 he worked successively as a tutor, teacher and head teacher at various schools; on his return from England in 1962 he was appointed principal of the Zanzibar Teaching Training College, before deciding to enter national politics. {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Presidency",
     "markdown": "Mwinyi became president of Zanzibar on 30 January 1984 and first vice-president of Tanzania the same day, then succeeded Nyerere as president on 5 November 1985, with the economy in a slump, goods scarce and foreign debt above three billion dollars. {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} He relaxed import restrictions and encouraged private enterprise, and in 1986 he made an agreement with the IMF for a $78 million standby loan, Tanzania's first foreign loan in over six years. {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} In his second term the transition towards multi-party politics began: in 1991 he appointed Chief Justice Francis Nyalali to lead a commission gauging support for the single-party system, supported its recommendation, and constitutional amendments were ratified in February 1992. {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} He was often referred to as Mzee Rukhsa, \"everything goes\", for pushing the liberalisation of the economy, morals, beliefs and values without breaking the law. {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Honours and death",
     "markdown": "Mwinyi received the King Faisal Prize of Saudi Arabia for Service to Islam in 2022. {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ar} He was hospitalised for a chest illness in November 2023 and died of lung cancer at Mzena hospital in Dar es Salaam on 29 February 2024, at the age of 98. {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Note on the record",
     "markdown": "No source names a religious school for Mwinyi: Wikidata gives his religion as Islam with no branch, a single structured value. The English text never calls him a Muslim; its religion content is the King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam — an honour, not an affiliation — and a category filing (Tanzanian Muslims), and the Urdu article makes no religion statement. {cite:wikidata-ali-hassan-mwinyi} {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ur} His faith is therefore recorded as unknown.\n\nNeither his predecessor Julius Nyerere nor his successor Benjamin Mkapa has a record in the museum, so no succession relation is written; the relation written is his life in Zanzibar, where he was educated, worked and later served as president. {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-ali-hassan-mwinyi}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور صدارت",
     "markdown": "موینی 8 مئی 1925ء کو کیفورے، پوانی میں پیدا ہوئے، زنجبار منتقل ہوئے اور وہاں تعلیم پائی، اور 1945ء سے 1964ء تک استاد اور صدر مدرس رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} صدر بن کر انہوں نے درآمدی پابندیاں نرم کیں، نجی کاروبار کی حوصلہ افزائی کی، 1986ء میں آئی ایم ایف سے 78 ملین ڈالر کے قرض کا معاہدہ کیا، اور ان کی دوسری مدت میں کثیر الجماعتی سیاست کی طرف منتقلی شروع ہوئی۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en} انہیں 2022ء میں خدمتِ اسلام پر شاہ فیصل عالمی انعام ملا، اور 29 فروری 2024ء کو دارالسلام میں 98 برس کی عمر میں پھیپھڑوں کے سرطان سے ان کا انتقال ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ریکارڈ پر ایک نوٹ",
     "markdown": "کوئی مصدر ان کے لیے مذہبی مکتب فکر بیان نہیں کرتا: ویکی ڈیٹا ان کا مذہب صرف «اسلام» درج کرتی ہے، بلا شاخ؛ انگریزی متن انہیں مسلمان نہیں کہتا، اس میں مذہبی مواد صرف خدمتِ اسلام کا انعام — جو تکريم ہے، انتماء نہیں — اور ایک زمرہ بندی ہے، اور اردو مضمون مذہب کا ذکر نہیں کرتا۔{cite:wikidata-ali-hassan-mwinyi}{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}{cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ur} اس لیے ان کا مذہب «نامعلوم» درج کیا گیا ہے۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-ali-hassan-mwinyi-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-ali-hassan-mwinyi}"
    }
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