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  "ar": "باحثة أمريكية في الدراسات الإسلامية، وُلدت سنة 1958. نالت الدكتوراه من جامعة جونز هوبكنز سنة 1993، ودرّست في هارفارد ونوتردام، وتشغل أستاذية لغات وثقافات الشرق الأوسط في جامعة إنديانا بلومنغتون. من كتبها «المسلمون الأوائل: التاريخ والذاكرة» و«السعي في سبيل الله» الذي نال جائزة الكتاب العالمية الإيرانية سنة 2015، و«الجهاد: ما يحتاج الجميع إلى معرفته» (2022).",
  "en": "American scholar of Islamic studies, born in 1958. She took her PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 1993, taught at Harvard and Notre Dame, and is professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University Bloomington. Her books include The First Muslims: History and Memory, Striving in the Path of God — which received Iran's World Book Prize in 2015 — and Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (2022).",
  "ur": "امریکی ماہرِ اسلامیات، 1958 میں پیدا ہوئیں۔ انھوں نے 1993 میں جانز ہاپکنز یونیورسٹی سے پی ایچ ڈی کی، ہارورڈ اور نوٹرے ڈیم میں پڑھایا، اور انڈیانا یونیورسٹی بلومنگٹن میں مشرقِ وسطیٰ کی زبانوں و ثقافتوں کی پروفیسر ہیں۔ ان کی کتابوں میں «دی فرسٹ مسلمز»، «اسٹرائیونگ ان دی پاتھ آف گاڈ» — جسے 2015 میں ایران کا عالمی کتاب انعام ملا — اور «جہاد: واٹ ایوری ون نیڈز ٹو نو» (2022) شامل ہیں۔"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أسماء أفسرالدين (وُلدت سنة 1958) باحثة أمريكية في الدراسات الإسلامية وأستاذة لغات وثقافات الشرق الأوسط في جامعة إنديانا بلومنغتون. {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en} {cite:wikidata-asma-afsaruddin}"
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    {
     "heading": "التعليم والمسيرة",
     "markdown": "نالت الدكتوراه من جامعة جونز هوبكنز سنة 1993، ودرّست في هارفارد وجونز هوبكنز وكانت أستاذة مشاركة للعربية والدراسات الإسلامية في جامعة نوتردام قبل انتقالها إلى إنديانا. تخصصاتها: الفكر الديني والسياسي في الإسلام، والنصوص الإسلامية الأولى (القرآن والحديث)، ودراسات الجندر. ترأست مجلس مركز دراسة الإسلام والديمقراطية، وسُمّيت باحثة كارنيغي سنة 2005. {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأعمال والتكريم",
     "markdown": "من كتبها: «المسلمون الأوائل: التاريخ والذاكرة» (2008)، و«السعي في سبيل الله: الجهاد والشهادة في الفكر الإسلامي» (2013)، و«قضايا معاصرة في الإسلام» (2015)، و«الجهاد: ما يحتاج الجميع إلى معرفته» (2022). في سنة 2015 منحها الرئيس الإيراني حسن روحاني جائزة الكتاب العالمية عن كتاب «السعي في سبيل الله». {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، وهي مسجلة في `data/source/`."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Asma Afsaruddin (born 1958) is an American scholar of Islamic studies and professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures — now Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures — at Indiana University Bloomington. {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en} {cite:wikidata-asma-afsaruddin}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Education and career",
     "markdown": "She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. She previously taught at Harvard University and at Johns Hopkins, and was associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame before moving to Indiana. Her specialisations are the religious and political thought of Islam, the primary Islamic texts (Qur'an and hadith), and gender studies. She has served on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association, edited for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, consulted for The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2002), chaired the board of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005. {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works and honours",
     "markdown": "Her books include Excellence and Precedence, The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008), Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (2013), Contemporary Issues in Islam (2015) and Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (2022). In 2015 President Hassan Rouhani of Iran presented her with the Jayezeh Jahani (World Book Prize) for Striving in the Path of God; the book was also runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in 2014. {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en}"
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     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`."
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    "id": "person/asma-afsaruddin",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "اسماء افسرالدین (پیدائش 1958ء) امریکی ماہرِ اسلامیات اور انڈیانا یونیورسٹی بلومنگٹن میں مشرقِ وسطیٰ کی زبانوں و ثقافتوں کی پروفیسر ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en} {cite:wikidata-asma-afsaruddin}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تعلیم و پیشہ",
     "markdown": "انھوں نے 1993ء میں جانز ہاپکنز یونیورسٹی سے پی ایچ ڈی کی، ہارورڈ اور نوٹرے ڈیم میں تدریس کی، اور ان کے تخصصات میں اسلامی دینی و سیاسی فکر، قرآن و حدیث اور صنفی مطالعات شامل ہیں۔ وہ 2005ء میں کارنیگی اسکالر نامزد ہوئیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصانیف و اعزازات",
     "markdown": "ان کی کتابوں میں «دی فرسٹ مسلمز» (2008ء)، «اسٹرائیونگ ان دی پاتھ آف گاڈ» (2013ء) اور «جہاد: واٹ ایوری ون نیڈز ٹو نو» (2022ء) شامل ہیں۔ 2015ء میں ایرانی صدر حسن روحانی نے انھیں «اسٹرائیونگ ان دی پاتھ آف گاڈ» پر عالمی کتاب انعام دیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-asma-afsaruddin-en}"
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     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ دیے گئے متعین ماخذ، `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔"
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