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  "ar": "فيصل الثاني",
  "en": "Faisal II",
  "ur": "فیصل دوم"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فيصل الثاني (2 مايو 1935 – 14 يوليو 1958)، آخر ملوك العراق من الأسرة الهاشمية. اعتلى العرش طفلًا في الثالثة بعد مقتل أبيه الملك غازي سنة 1939، وحكم تحت وصاية خاله الأمير عبد الإله حتى بلوغه سنة 1953، ثم قُتل مع أفراد من أسرته في قصر الرحاب ببغداد في ثورة 14 يوليو 1958 التي أنهت الملكية وأعلنت الجمهورية.",
  "en": "Faisal II (2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last king of Iraq of the Hashemite dynasty. He acceded at the age of three after his father King Ghazi was killed in 1939, reigned under the regency of his uncle Prince Abd al-Ilah until his majority in 1953, and was killed with members of his family at the Rihab Palace in Baghdad in the revolution of 14 July 1958, which abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the republic.",
  "ur": "فیصل دوم (2 مئی 1935ء – 14 جولائی 1958ء) ہاشمی خاندان کے عراق کے آخری بادشاہ تھے۔ وہ 1939ء میں اپنے والد بادشاہ غازی کے قتل کے بعد تین برس کی عمر میں تخت نشین ہوئے، 1953ء میں بالغ ہونے تک اپنے ماموں شہزادہ عبد الالٰہ کی سرپرستی میں رہے، اور 14 جولائی 1958ء کے انقلاب میں بغداد کے قصرِ رحاب میں اپنے خاندان کے افراد سمیت قتل ہوئے؛ اس انقلاب نے بادشاہت ختم کر کے جمہوریہ کا اعلان کیا۔"
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  "earliest": 1935.3298835705045,
  "latest": 1958.5336454547005
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   "edtf": "1935-05-02",
   "hijri": "1354",
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   "note": "Born at Baghdad on 2 May 1935; the English article and Wikidata agree, and the Arabic article gives the same dates. The Hijri year (1354) is derived by tabular conversion of the recorded date.",
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   "edtf": "1958-07-14",
   "hijri": "1377",
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   "note": "Killed at Baghdad on 14 July 1958, in the revolution that overthrew the Hashemite monarchy; all three articles and Wikidata agree. He was buried in the Iraqi Royal Cemetery at Baghdad; no buried_in edge is written because the cemetery has no entity. The Hijri year (1377) is derived from the Gregorian date.",
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    "value": "فيصل بن غازي بن فيصل بن حسين بن علي",
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   {
    "value": "Faisal bin Ghazi bin Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "فيصل الثاني",
    "kind": "regnal"
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   {
    "value": "Faisal II",
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  "gender": "male",
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   "politician"
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   "note": "Born at Baghdad on 2 May 1935; the English article and Wikidata agree, and the Arabic article gives the same dates. The Hijri year (1354) is derived by tabular conversion of the recorded date.",
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   "edtf": "1958-07-14",
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   "note": "Killed at Baghdad on 14 July 1958, in the revolution that overthrew the Hashemite monarchy; all three articles and Wikidata agree. He was buried in the Iraqi Royal Cemetery at Baghdad; no buried_in edge is written because the cemetery has no entity. The Hijri year (1377) is derived from the Gregorian date.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED (the headship line, with a single-infobox Sunni reading). No two independent sources name his school. The English article's infobox gives his religion as Sunni Islam, citing a 2005 APS news article — one infobox, one source family. Wikidata gives only Islam in general. The Arabic article names no school in its text and files him under 'Iraqi Sunni Muslims', a category filing, which never counts. His descent from the Prophet's house and his crown are headship and descent, which never count. Recorded unknown with exactly this stated.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Faisal II, each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1380988157, AR 77050184, UR 9724614) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q149724 (item revision 2558703347, read twice with identical revision and claims), the QID grounded through the English article's pageprops and confirmed by the Arabic and Urdu articles' pageprops. Existence checks by Latin and Arabic fragments across data/person, by the grounded QID across all person files, and by biography found no prior record. No child_of edge is written: his father King Ghazi (Wikidata Q314784) has no record, and his grandfather Faisal I, who does have a record (person/faisal-i-of-iraq), is a grandfather, for whom child_of is not used. No successor edge is written in this record: successor edges are written in the successor's own record, and his successor as head of state on the monarchy's abolition, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, has no record. No ruler_of edge is written (no modern Iraq polity entity exists).",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملكه",
     "markdown": "حكمت الوصاية باسمه برئاسة خاله الأمير عبد الإله بينما كان يتلقى تعليمه في بريطانيا، في مدرسة هارو إلى جانب ابن عمه الحسين، ملك الأردن لاحقًا. انتهت الوصاية ببلوغه وتتويجه في 2 مايو 1953. جرى ملكه في مناخ من تصاعد القومية العربية وعدم المساواة الاقتصادية وانتشار التنظيم الشيوعي، واعتمد في الحكم على مشورة الوصي ورئيس الوزراء المخضرم نوري السعيد، وتصف المقالة الإنجليزية عهده بالتسامح والتعايش مع الأديان الأخرى ومذاهب الإسلام وبمشاريع عمرانية كمشاريع الري. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مقتله ونهاية الملكية",
     "markdown": "في 14 يوليو 1958 أطاح انقلاب عسكري بقيادة عبد الكريم قاسم وعبد السلام عارف بالملكية. قُتل فيصل في قصر الرحاب ببغداد مع أفراد من أسرته، وأُعلنت الجمهورية العراقية؛ وتسمّي مقالته محمد نجيب الرباعي، رئيس مجلس السيادة، صاحب المنصب الخلف عند إلغاء الملكية. دُفن في المقبرة الملكية ببغداد. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دينه",
     "markdown": "يُسجَّل دينه غير معروف. يسمّي صندوق معلومات المقالة الإنجليزية دينه الإسلام السني مستشهدًا بمقال إخباري من سنة 2005، ويعطي ويكي بيانات الإسلام عمومًا فحسب، وتصنّفه المقالة العربية ضمن «مسلمون سنة عراقيون» دون أن يسمّي نصّها مذهبًا. صندوق معلومات واحد وتصنيفات ملفات لا يبلغان حدّ المصدرين المستقلين الذي يشترطه المتحف لتسمية مذهب.\n{cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikidata-faisal-ii}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-27"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Reign",
     "markdown": "A regency under his uncle Prince Abd al-Ilah governed in his name while he was educated in Britain, at Harrow School alongside his cousin Hussein, the future king of Jordan. The regency ended with his majority and coronation on 2 May 1953. His reign unfolded against rising pan-Arab nationalism, economic inequality and growing communist organisation; the English article describes a reign marked by tolerance and co-existence with other faiths and branches of Islam, and by public works such as irrigation projects. In practice he relied on the counsel of the regent and of the veteran prime minister Nuri al-Said. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and the end of the monarchy",
     "markdown": "On 14 July 1958 an army coup led by Abdul-Karim Qasim and Abdul Salam Arif overthrew the monarchy. Faisal was killed at the Rihab Palace in Baghdad with members of his family, and the Iraqi Republic was proclaimed; his article names Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, chairman of the Sovereignty Council, as the successor office-holder of the abolished monarchy. He was buried in the Iraqi Royal Cemetery in Baghdad. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Religion",
     "markdown": "His faith is recorded as unknown. The English article's infobox names his religion as Sunni Islam, citing a 2005 news article; Wikidata gives only Islam in general, and the Arabic article files him under \"Iraqi Sunni Muslims\" without naming a school in its text. One infobox and category filings do not meet the museum's two-source bar for naming a school. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikidata-faisal-ii}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "دورِ حکومت",
     "markdown": "ان کی کم سنی کے دوران ان کے ماموں شہزادہ عبد الالٰہ سرپرست رہے؛ فیصل نے برطانیہ کے ہیرو اسکول میں اپنے چچازاد حسین، بعد کے اردنی بادشاہ، کے ساتھ تعلیم پائی۔ سرپرستی 2 مئی 1953ء کو ان کی تاج پوشی پر ختم ہوئی۔ ان کا دور بڑھتی ہوئی عرب قوم پرستی، معاشی عدم مساوات اور کمیونسٹ تنظیم کے پس منظر میں گزرا، اور انگریزی مقالہ ان کے عہد کو دیگر مذاہب اور اسلامی مکاتب کے ساتھ رواداری اور آبپاشی جیسے عوامی منصوبوں سے متصف کرتا ہے۔ عملی طور پر وہ سرپرست اور تجربہ کار وزیرِ اعظم نوری سعید کے مشورے پر انحصار کرتے تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قتل اور بادشاہت کا خاتمہ",
     "markdown": "14 جولائی 1958ء کو عبد الکریم قاسم اور عبد السلام عارف کی قیادت میں فوجی بغاوت نے بادشاہت کا خاتمہ کیا۔ فیصل بغداد کے قصرِ رحاب میں اپنے خاندان کے افراد سمیت قتل ہوئے اور جمہوریۂ عراق کا اعلان ہوا؛ ان کا مقالہ بادشاہت کے خاتمے پر جانشین عہدے دار کے طور پر مجلسِ اقتدار کے صدر محمد نجیب الرباعی کا نام دیتا ہے۔ وہ بغداد کے شاہی قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مذہب",
     "markdown": "ان کا مذہب نامعلوم درج ہے۔ انگریزی مقالے کا معلوماتی خانہ 2005ء کے ایک خبرنامے کے حوالے سے ان کا مذہب سنی اسلام بتاتا ہے؛ ویکی ڈیٹا صرف اسلام عمومی دیتا ہے، اور عربی مقالہ انہیں «عراقی سنی مسلمان» کے زمرے میں رکھتا ہے مگر اپنے متن میں کوئی مکتب نہیں بتاتا۔ ایک معلوماتی خانہ اور زمرہ بندیاں مکتب کا نام لینے کے لیے عجائب گھر کی دو مصدروں کی شرط پوری نہیں کرتیں۔\n{cite:wikipedia-faisal-ii-en} {cite:wikidata-faisal-ii}"
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