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  "ar": "إبراهيم موسى",
  "en": "Ebrahim Moosa",
  "ur": "ابراہیم موسی"
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  "ar": "عالم جنوب أفريقي في الدراسات الإسلامية ⁦(وُلد سنة 1957)⁩، أستاذ كرسي ميرزا للفكر الإسلامي والمجتمعات المسلمة في جامعة نوتر دام، ودرّس قبلها في ديوك وكيب تاون. تربّى علمياً في دار العلوم ندوة العلماء في لكناو، ومن كتبه «الغزالي وشاعرية الخيال» (2005) و«ما هي المدرسة؟» (2015).",
  "en": "South African scholar of Islam (born 1957), Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies at the University of Notre Dame, previously at Duke University and the University of Cape Town. Trained at Darul Ulum Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, he wrote Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination (2005) and What Is a Madrasa? (2015).",
  "ur": "جنوبی افریقی عالمِ اسلام ⁦(پیدائش 1957ء)⁩، یونیورسٹی آف نوٹرے ڈیم میں فکرِ اسلامی اور مسلم معاشروں کے پروفیسر؛ اس سے پہلے ڈیوک یونیورسٹی اور کیپ ٹاؤن یونیورسٹی میں تدریس کی۔ لکھنؤ کی دار العلوم ندوۃ العلماء سے تربیت یافتہ؛ ان کی کتابوں میں «غزالی اور شاعریتِ تخیّل» ⁦(2005ء)⁩ شامل ہے۔"
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   "status": "debated",
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   "note": "Birth year debated. The English biography's infobox gives 1957, born in South Africa, and the queue agrees; Wikidata's structured value gives 1950. Neither year is corroborated by his own published curricula vitae or his Notre Dame biography, which give no birth year, so the English biography's 1957 is followed and the 1950 reading is preserved. A bare 1957 spans the Hijri years 1376–1377, so no Hijri year is recorded.",
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    "value": "Ebrahim Moosa",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "Ebrahim E. I. Moosa",
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1957",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Birth year debated. The English biography's infobox gives 1957, born in South Africa, and the queue agrees; Wikidata's structured value gives 1950. Neither year is corroborated by his own published curricula vitae or his Notre Dame biography, which give no birth year, so the English biography's 1957 is followed and the 1950 reading is preserved. A bare 1957 spans the Hijri years 1376–1377, so no Hijri year is recorded.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source attests a legal school for Moosa himself. His formation is the 'Alimiyya degree of Darul Ulum Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow (1981) — an education, which never counts — and his extensive scholarly writing on the Deoband tradition is research about a movement, not membership of it; movement sympathy never counts. Wikidata's single structured religion value gives Islam only, with no school. The settlement is the Islam-only configuration, unknown.",
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   "source": "The English Wikipedia biography of Ebrahim Moosa and the Wikidata item Q2417303, read in full, with his own published curricula vitae and Notre Dame biography consulted for the training and career facts; every Wikipedia and Wikidata revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session, asserted, and the Wikidata revision re-asserted against a second live query. The QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's bearer — the South African Notre Dame scholar (queue year 1957), pinned by biography and QID. The Arabic Wikipedia article «إبراهيم موسى» is NOT used: its page properties attach it to Q897257, Brahim Houssein Moussa, a Moroccan diplomat (1945–2021), a different man. Queue correction: the queue's year 1957 is followed as debated against Wikidata's 1950. His Indian training was at Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, not at Deoband; Deoband is his research subject. Relations written: none — neither South Africa nor Cape Town has a place entity. Living-person care: only well-sourced public facts are recorded.",
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