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 "label": {
  "ar": "داود وارنسبي علي",
  "en": "Dawud Wharnsby"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الموسيقي الكندي المعتنق للإسلام صاحب أغاني الأطفال الإسلامية «القائد للأطفال» مع ساوند فيجن.",
  "en": "The Canadian convert-musician behind Sound Vision's Islamic children's songs like 'A Whisper of Peace'."
 },
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 "themes": [
  "music",
  "converts-and-leavers",
  "children-and-youth"
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  "earliest": 1971.9986721151015,
  "latest": 1973.0007460796278
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1972",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
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   "writer"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1972",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
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   "review": "draft",
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   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture lane; existence/year via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "داود وارنسبي علي (وُلد سنة 1972م في أونتاريو بكندا) مغنٍّ كندي اعتنق الإسلام؛ اشتهر بأناشيد الأطفال مثل «الأغنية الإسلامية للأطفال» وألبوم «النبي والصوفي»، وهو من جيل الأناشيد الإنجليزية المبكر. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/dawud-wharnsby",
    "lang": "ar",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "David Wharnsby Ali (born 1972 in Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian singer who embraced Islam. He is known for children's songs such as \"The Islamic Song for Children\" and the album \"The Prophet and the Sufi\". He belongs to the early generation of English-language Islamic nasheed. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/dawud-wharnsby",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "داود وارنسبی علی کینیڈا کے صوبہ انٹاریو میں 1972ء میں پیدا ہوئے۔ وہ کینیڈین گلوکار ہیں جنہوں نے اسلام قبول کیا۔ بچوں کے نغموں اور البم «النبی والصوفی» کی وجہ سے شہرت پائی، اور وہ انگریزی زبان کے ابتدائی اسلامی نغمہ نگاروں کی نسل سے تعلق رکھتے ہیں۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/dawud-wharnsby",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
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  "person/abbas-kiarostami",
  "person/abd-al-aziz-al-ghumari",
  "person/abd-al-fattah-abu-ghudda",
  "person/abd-al-halim-mahmud",
  "person/abd-al-rahman-badawi",
  "person/abd-al-razzaq-nawfal",
  "person/abd-allah-ibn-al-siddiq-al-ghumari",
  "person/abdel-halim-hafez",
  "person/abdelaziz-bouteflika",
  "person/abderrahmane-youssoufi",
  "person/abdoldjavad-falaturi"
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 "updated": "2026-10-16",
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  "screen/aliyat-al-khayt-2021",
  "screen/ya-tayr-2015",
  "concept/hadanah-custody",
  "concept/huquq-al-abna",
  "concept/ilf-al-rafahiya",
  "concept/sama",
  "concept/shiar-distinctive-sign",
  "concept/social-condition-jahiliyya"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}