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  "ar": "غلام رسول عالم بوري",
  "en": "Ghulam Rasul Alampuri",
  "ur": "غلام رسول عالمپوری"
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  "ar": "شاعر بنجابي (1849–1892) من عالم بور في قضاء هوشياربور، من أسرة غوجرية. علّم في مدارس القرى حتى 1882، واشتهر بملحمته «داستان أمير حمزة» (1869) وبمنظومته «أحسن القصص» (1873) في قصة يوسف وزليخا. وصفه مدخل الموسوعة الإسلامية (EI3) بأنه لم يكن منتسباً إلى أي طريقة صوفية، خلافاً لكثير من شعراء البنجاب.",
  "en": "Punjabi poet (1849–1892) of Alampur in Hoshiarpur district, from a Gujjar family. He taught in village schools until 1882 and is known for his epic Dastan-i Amir Hamza (1869) and Ahsan al-Qasas (1873), his verse rendering of Yusuf and Zulaikha. Shackle's Encyclopaedia of Islam entry notes that, unlike many Punjabi poets, he was not affiliated with any Sufi order.",
  "ur": "پنجابی شاعر (1849ء–1892ء) عالم پور، ضلع ہوشیارپور سے، گوجر خاندان سے تعلق۔ 1882ء تک دیہی اسکولوں میں پڑھایا؛ مشہور تصانیف «داستان امیر حمزہ» (1869ء) اور «احسن القصص» (1873ء) ہیں، جو یوسف زلیخا کے قصے کی منظوم صورت ہے۔ انسائیکلوپیڈیا آف اسلام (EI3) کے مطابق وہ اکثر پنجابی شعرا کے برعکس کسی صوفی سلسلے سے وابستہ نہ تھے۔"
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  "latest": 1892.183207047341
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   "note": "Born 29 January 1849 at Alampur, Hoshiarpur district (the English article, on Shackle's EI3 entry, and Wikidata agree on the day; the Urdu article gives the year 1849 and the village Alampur Kotla). Alampur has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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   "edtf": "1892-03-07",
   "hijri": "1309",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
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   "note": "Died at Alampur in 1892, aged 43. The English article and Wikidata give 7 March 1892, which the record follows; the Urdu article gives 5 March 1892. His shrine stands at Alampur. Alampur has no place entity, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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    "value": "غلام رسول عالمپوری",
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    "value": "Ghulam Rasool Alampuri",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Ghulam Rasul",
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    "value": "Maulvi Ghulam Rasul Alampuri",
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   "note": "Born 29 January 1849 at Alampur, Hoshiarpur district (the English article, on Shackle's EI3 entry, and Wikidata agree on the day; the Urdu article gives the year 1849 and the village Alampur Kotla). Alampur has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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   "hijri": "1309",
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   "note": "Died at Alampur in 1892, aged 43. The English article and Wikidata give 7 March 1892, which the record follows; the Urdu article gives 5 March 1892. His shrine stands at Alampur. Alampur has no place entity, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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    "note": "No two texts state a personal affiliation, and the strongest text states the opposite of order membership. The English article's lead calls him a Sufi poet and author, but its biography, resting on Shackle's Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI3) entry, states expressly that unlike many other Punjabi poets Ghulam Rasool was not affiliated with any Sufi order. The Urdu text says he became a student of the gaddi nashin (custodian) of Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine and received advanced education — a single text, framed as study, which does not state initiation into an order. No text names a madhhab or school for him, and Wikidata carries no religion value. The value therefore stays unknown, with the Urdu study report preserved here.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Ghulam Rasool Alampuri' (revision 1372733843) and Urdu Wikipedia 'غلام رسول عالمپوری' (revision 10761505), each fetched by its recorded revision id with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q20609264 (item revision 2554096509). No Arabic article exists for him; the Arabic prose is written from the English and Urdu sources and says so. Existence checks by name fragments (alampuri, ghulam rasul, غلام رسول), by Arabic label across data/person, by biography and by QID found no prior record for this man. No relations are written: Alampur has no place entity, his teachers have no person records, and no order edge is written because the EI3-based text expressly denies order affiliation. The founder's flagged question on this record: the Urdu article's report of his study under the Nizamuddin custodian stands against the EI3 denial of any order affiliation; the record follows the denial and stays unknown. The lane queue gives 1849–1892 under the spelling 'Ghulam Rasul'; the English article's 'Rasool' spelling is recorded as an alternate name.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "غلام رسول عالم بوري (29 كانون الثاني 1849 – 7 آذار 1892) شاعر بنجابي من القرن التاسع عشر من قرية عالم بور في قضاء هوشياربور، اشتهر بمنظومته «أحسن القصص» (1873) في قصة يوسف وزليخا. لا توجد مقالة عربية عنه؛ كُتب هذا النص من المقالتين الإنجليزية والأردية. تسميه المقالة الإنجليزية شاعراً صوفياً بنجابياً، وتنص في سيرته، نقلاً عن مدخل كريستوفر شاكل في الموسوعة الإسلامية (EI3)، على أنه لم يكن منتسباً إلى أي طريقة صوفية، بخلاف كثير من شعراء البنجاب.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} وتذكر المقالة الأردية أنه صار تلميذاً لصاحب السجادة عند ضريح خواجة نظام الدين أولياء وحصل على تعليم عالٍ، وتعطي وفاته في 5 آذار 1892.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في 29 كانون الثاني 1849 في أسرة غوجرية من قرية عالم بور بقضاء هوشيارپور؛ توفيت أمه وهو في الشهر السادس وأبوه وهو في الثانية عشرة، وتلقى تعليمه الابتدائي على مولوي حميد صاحب في قريته.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} عمل مدرّساً في ميربور من 1864 إلى 1878، وانتهت مهنته التعليمية عام 1882 باستقالته من آخر مدارسه في ماهيسر.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعماله",
     "markdown": "جُمعت أعماله الصغرى في «ست پھول» (الزهور السبع)؛ وتقوم شهرته على عملين كبيرين: «داستان أمير حمزة»، ملحمة طويلة في حياة حمزة أتمها عام 1869 وهو في العشرين، و«أحسن القصص» في قصة يوسف وزليخا أتمها عام 1873.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته وأثره",
     "markdown": "توفي شاباً في الثالثة والأربعين في 7 آذار 1892.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} ومُنحت رسائل دكتوراه في حياته وأعماله في باتيالا بالهند ومرتين في بنجاب باكستان، وأقيمت ندوات في ذكرى وفاته التاسعة عشرة بعد المائة في شطري البنجاب؛ وفي عام 2014 لفت ضريحه انتباه الإعلام حين رفض مستأجر الأرض المجاورة السماح لحفيده القادم من باكستان بالمرور لزيارة قبره.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-ghulam-rasul-alampuri}}"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ghulam Rasool Alampuri (29 January 1849 – 7 March 1892) was a 19th-century Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet and author; he authored a rendition of the Yusuf-Zulaikha folktale in 1873.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} The Urdu article gives his death on 5 March 1892 instead, and records that he became a student of the gaddi nashin of Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Ghulam Rasul was born on 29 January 1849 into a Gujjar family from the village of Alampur in Hoshiarpur district; he was six months old when his mother died and twelve when his father died, and he received his primary education from Maulvi Hamid Sahib of his village.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} He worked as a school teacher in Meerpur from 1864 to 1878, and his formal teaching profession ended in 1882 with his resignation from his last school in Mahesar.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} Unlike many other Punjabi poets, Ghulam Rasool was not affiliated with any Sufi order.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "Several minor works of his were collected as Satt phull (\"Seven flowers\"); his fame rests chiefly on two major works: Dastan-i Amir Hamza, a lengthy epic on the life of Hamza completed in 1869 when he was twenty, and Ahsan al-Qasas, based on the romance of Yusuf and Zulaikha, completed in 1873.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and legacy",
     "markdown": "He died young, at the age of 43, on 7 March 1892.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} Doctoral theses on his life and works have been awarded at Patiala in India and twice in Punjab, Pakistan, and seminars marked his 119th death anniversary in both Punjabs; in 2014 his shrine drew media attention when the leaseholder of the adjoining land refused passage to his grandson visiting from Pakistan.{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
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     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-ghulam-rasul-alampuri}}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "مولوی غلام رسول عالمپوری (29 جنوری 1849ء – 7 مارچ 1892ء) پنجابی کے بڑے شاعر تھے، جن کی شہرت ان کی منظوم داستان «احسن القصص» (1873ء)، قصہ یوسف زلیخا، پر ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur} انگریزی مضمون انھیں پنجابی صوفی شاعر کہتا ہے، مگر انسائیکلوپیڈیا آف اسلام (EI3) کے مدخل کے حوالے سے لکھتا ہے کہ وہ اکثر پنجابی شعرا کے برعکس کسی صوفی سلسلے سے وابستہ نہ تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی",
     "markdown": "ان کی ولادت 1849ء میں بستی عالم پورکوٹلہ، تحصیل دسوہہ، ضلع ہوشیار پور میں ہوئی؛ والد کا نام مراد بخش تھا اور قوم گوجر تھی۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur} انگریزی مضمون کے مطابق وہ چھ ماہ کے تھے کہ والدہ اور بارہ برس کے تھے کہ والد کا انتقال ہوا، اور ابتدائی تعلیم اپنے گاؤں کے مولوی حمید صاحب سے حاصل کی۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} اردو مضمون کے مطابق انھوں نے قریبی قصبے میں مولوی محمد عثمان سے اردو، فارسی اور عربی سیکھی، خواجہ نظام الدین اولیا کے گدی نشین کے شاگرد ہوئے اور اعلیٰ تعلیم حاصل کی۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur} وہ 1864ء سے 1878ء تک میرپور کے اسکول میں مدرس رہے اور 1882ء میں آخری اسکول سے استعفیٰ دے کر تدریس چھوڑ دی۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصانیف",
     "markdown": "ان کی معروف تصانیف میں «احسن القصص» (قصہ یوسف زلیخا)، «داستان امیر حمزہ» (1869ء)، «بارہ ماہ مالی تے بلبل»، «چٹھی سید روشن علی دے ناں» اور «سی حرفی سسی پنوں» شامل ہیں، اور ان کی چھوٹی تصانیف «ست پھول» میں جمع ہوئیں۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur}{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات و اثرات",
     "markdown": "اردو مضمون کے مطابق ان کی وفات 5 مارچ 1892ء کو عالم پور میں ہوئی اور مزار بھی عالم پور میں ہے، جبکہ انگریزی مضمون اور وکی ڈیٹا 7 مارچ 1892 دیتے ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur}{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en} ان کی زندگی و فن پر پٹیالہ (انڈیا) اور پنجاب (پاکستان) میں ڈاکٹریٹ کی اسناد دی جا چکی ہیں اور دونوں پنجابوں میں ان کی برسیوں پر سیمینار ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-ghulam-rasul-alampuri-en}} {{cite:wikidata-ghulam-rasul-alampuri}}"
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