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 "label": {
  "ar": "حبيب الله خان",
  "en": "Habibullah Khan",
  "ur": "حبیب اللہ خان"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "أمير أفغانستان (1901-1919) من أسرة بركزاي، أكبر أبناء الأمير عبد الرحمن خان. حاكم إصلاحي نسبيا: أدخل الطب والتقنية الحديثة، وأسس مدرسة حبيبية وأكاديمية عسكرية، وخفف أشد العقوبات، وحفظ حياد أفغانستان في الحرب العالمية الأولى رغم ضغوط الدولة العثمانية وألمانيا. اغتيل أثناء رحلة صيد في لغمان في فبراير 1919، وهو والد الملك أمان الله خان.",
  "en": "Emir of Afghanistan (1901–1919) of the Barakzai dynasty, eldest son of Emir Abdur Rahman Khan. A relatively reform-minded ruler: he brought in modern medicine and technology, founded the Habibia High School and a military academy, repealed the harshest criminal penalties, and kept Afghanistan neutral in the First World War despite Ottoman and German pressure. He was assassinated on a hunting trip in Laghman in February 1919; he was the father of King Amanullah Khan.",
  "ur": "افغانستان کے امیر (1901ء–1919ء)، بارکزئی خاندان سے، امیر عبد الرحمن خان کے سب سے بڑے بیٹے۔ نسبتاً اصلاح پسند حکمران: جدید طب اور ٹیکنالوجی متعارف کرائی، حبیبیہ ہائی اسکول اور فوجی اکیڈمی قائم کی، سخت ترین سزائیں ختم کیں اور پہلی جنگِ عظیم میں عثمانی اور جرمن دباؤ کے باوجود افغانستان کو غیر جانبدار رکھا۔ فروری 1919ء میں لغمان میں شکار کے دوران قتل کیے گئے؛ بادشاہ امان اللہ خان کے والد تھے۔"
 },
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1872.5003935741322,
  "latest": 1919.1379015311427
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1872-07-02",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born on 2 July 1872 at Samarkand, in the Emirate of Bukhara, as the English article gives, citing Vogelsang's The Afghans (2001, p. 270) and an Ancestry genealogy record. The Arabic article and Wikidata's day-precision value give 3 June 1872 instead, and Wikidata also carries Tashkent alongside Samarkand as a birthplace; the cited article dating is followed and both variants are recorded here. No source gives a Hijri pairing for this date, so none is recorded. No place entity exists for Samarkand, so no born_in relation is written.",
   "sources": [
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   "edtf": "1919-02-20",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Assassinated during the night of 19–20 February 1919 at Kalagosh in Laghman Province, shot by Shuja al-Dawla Ghorbandi while on a hunting trip, as both articles and Wikidata give. No place entity exists for Kalagosh or Laghman, so no died_in relation is written.",
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    "value": "Habibullah Khan Barakzai",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "حبيب الله خان بارکزی",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Habiboullah Khan",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Siraj al-Millah wa al-Din",
    "kind": "regnal"
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  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1872-07-02",
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   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born on 2 July 1872 at Samarkand, in the Emirate of Bukhara, as the English article gives, citing Vogelsang's The Afghans (2001, p. 270) and an Ancestry genealogy record. The Arabic article and Wikidata's day-precision value give 3 June 1872 instead, and Wikidata also carries Tashkent alongside Samarkand as a birthplace; the cited article dating is followed and both variants are recorded here. No source gives a Hijri pairing for this date, so none is recorded. No place entity exists for Samarkand, so no born_in relation is written.",
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1919-02-20",
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   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Assassinated during the night of 19–20 February 1919 at Kalagosh in Laghman Province, shot by Shuja al-Dawla Ghorbandi while on a hunting trip, as both articles and Wikidata give. No place entity exists for Kalagosh or Laghman, so no died_in relation is written.",
   "sources": [
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  "roles": [
   "ruler"
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED: the only attestation naming a school for him is a single structured value: the English article's infobox gives his religion as Sunni Islam. The Arabic article's infobox gives Islam, generically, naming no school; Wikidata carries no religion value at all; and no article text names a religion or school for him personally. His styles (Commander of the Faithful, Lamp of the Nation and the Religion), his headship of a Muslim state, his 1901 law distinguishing Hindus from Muslims and his initiation into a Masonic lodge in India in 1907 are titles, state policy and activity, not attestations of a school. Under the two-source rule and the doubt rule the value therefore stays unknown, with the single infobox attestation preserved here.",
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  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q334869"
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  "status": {
   "review": "published"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Habibullah Khan and his Wikidata item Q334869 (grounded through the English article's page properties, not by name search, and grepped across all data/person files with no match), all read on 27 October 2026; the sole school-naming attestation is the English infobox's Sunni Islam value, with the Arabic infobox giving generic Islam and Wikidata no religion value, so his faith is unknown FLAGGED on the single-structured-family configuration. His birth is carried at the English article's cited dating of 2 July 1872 with the Arabic/Wikidata variant of 3 June 1872 disclosed. The parent_of edge to Amanullah Khan is written here, in the father's record, only; no throne succession edges are written, the Barakzai sequence being dynastic office succession.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
   "run": "century-additions-113"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "حبيب الله خان باركزاي (2 يوليو 1872 – 20 فبراير 1919) أمير أفغانستان من سنة 1901 حتى اغتياله سنة 1919. وهو أكبر أبناء الأمير عبد الرحمن خان، وقد خلف أباه في أكتوبر 1901 بحق البكورة، وجده محمد أفضل خان. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar}\n\nكان حاكما إصلاحيا نسبيا عمل على تحديث بلاده، وحفظ حياد أفغانستان في الحرب العالمية الأولى رغم جهود مضنية من سلطان الدولة العثمانية وبعثة عسكرية ألمانية لحشد أفغانستان إلى جانبهم. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته",
     "markdown": "وُلد حبيب الله في سمرقند سنة 1872، أكبر أبناء الأمير عبد الرحمن، في أسرة بشتونية. تعطي المقالة الإنجليزية تاريخ مولده في 2 يوليو 1872 وتنسبه إلى كتاب فوغلسانغ في تاريخ الأفغان، بينما تعطي المقالة العربية وويكي بيانات 3 يونيو 1872، وتحمل ويكي بيانات أيضا طشقند إلى جانب سمرقند مكانا للولادة. يتبع هذا المتحف تأريخ المقالة المنسوب إلى مصدر ويسجل البدائل في حاشية البيانات. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar} {cite:wikidata-habibullah-khan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "إمارته",
     "markdown": "عمل في عهده على إدخال الطب الحديث وغيره من التقنيات إلى أفغانستان، وعاد كثير ممن نفاهم أبوه بموجب عفو عام أصدره. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nأسس سنة 1903 مدرسة حبيبية وأكاديمية عسكرية، وأجرى إصلاحات قانونية شتى وألغى كثيرا من أشد العقوبات الجنائية. وحُكم على مستشاره الأبرز عبد اللطيف بالإعدام سنة 1903 بتهمة الردة، وفُككت منظمة الاستخبارات الداخلية التي أنشأها أبوه. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nوأصدر سنة 1901 قانونا يُلزم الرجال الهندوس بلبس عمامة صفراء والنساء بحجاب أصفر في الأماكن العامة لتمييزهم عن المسلمين. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nوفي مارس 1909 قدمت الحركة الدستورية الأفغانية، وهي ائتلاف من علماء ومربين ومثقفين، عريضة تطالبه بالانتقال من الملكية المطلقة إلى الملكية الدستورية؛ فعدّها تهديدا لسلطته واتهم الموقعين بالتآمر لاغتياله، وأعدم سبعة من قادتها وسجن الباقين. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nوفي مايو 1912 واجه الأزمة الوحيدة في مسيرته، تمرد خوست بقيادة جهان داد خان المطالب بالعرش، وانتهى في أغسطس من العام نفسه بمنح المتمردين تنازلات. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحرب العالمية الأولى واغتياله",
     "markdown": "حفظ حبيب الله حياد أفغانستان في الحرب العالمية الأولى رغم الجهود المضنية لسلطان الدولة العثمانية وبعثة عسكرية ألمانية لحشدها إلى جانبهم، وخفف كثيرا التوتر مع الهند البريطانية فوقع معاهدة صداقة سنة 1905 وقام بزيارة رسمية سنة 1907. وأثناء وجوده في الهند انضم إلى الماسونية في محفل كونكورديا. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nوفي يناير 1919 خرج للصيد إلى كالاغوش في مقاطعة لغمان، تاركا ابنه الثالث أمان الله نائبا عنه في كابل. وفي ليلة 19 فبراير 1919 تجاوز ضابط عسكري، شجاع الدولة غربندي، حراسه وأطلق عليه النار من مسافة قريبة جدا فقتله. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar}\n\nوخلفه شقيقه نصر الله خان فحكم أسبوعا واحدا بين 21 و28 فبراير 1919 قبل أن يطيح به أمان الله خان ويسجنه. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته الأسرية",
     "markdown": "تذكر المقالة إحدى عشرة زوجة وجواري كثيرات، وتسعة وعشرين ابنا وثمانيا وثلاثين ابنة؛ ومن أبنائه أمان الله الذي صار أميرا ثم ملكا لأفغانستان. ولا يسجل هذا المتحف من الأسرة إلا ما يحتاجه فهم عهده. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سجل المعتقد",
     "markdown": "لا يسمي أي متن مذهبا له. يعطي صندوق معلومات المقالة الإنجليزية دينه «الإسلام السني»، ويعطي صندوق المقالة العربية «الإسلام» بصورة عامة، ولا تحمل ويكي بيانات أي قيمة للديانة. ولذلك يبقى السجل «غير معروف» بحسب قاعدة المصدرين عند المتحف، مع حفظ الشهادة البنيوية الوحيدة في ملف البيانات. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar} {cite:wikidata-habibullah-khan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المُستشهد بها أعلاه، والمسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- يجب أن تكون مراجعات هذه المقالة مؤرخة، وأن تسمي المصدر الذي غيّر كل واقعة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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   "updated": "2026-10-27"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Habibullah Khan Barakzai (2 July 1872 – 20 February 1919) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1901 until his assassination in 1919. The eldest son of Emir Abdur Rahman Khan, he succeeded his father by right of primogeniture in October 1901, and his grandfather was Mohammad Afzal Khan. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nHe was a relatively reform-minded ruler who worked to modernise his country, and he kept Afghanistan neutral in the First World War despite strong Ottoman and German efforts to enlist it on their side. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "Habibullah was born in Samarkand in 1872, the eldest son of Emir Abdur Rahman, into a Pashtun family. The English article gives the date as 2 July 1872 and cites Vogelsang's history of the Afghans for it; the Arabic article and Wikidata give 3 June 1872 instead, and Wikidata also carries Tashkent alongside Samarkand as a birthplace. This museum follows the cited article dating and records the variants in the data note. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar} {cite:wikidata-habibullah-khan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Reign",
     "markdown": "During his reign he worked to bring modern medicine and other technology to Afghanistan, and many people who had been forced into exile by his father were able to return under a general amnesty he decreed. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nIn 1903 he founded the Habibia High School, as well as a military academy, instituted various legal reforms and repealed many of the harshest criminal penalties. His chief adviser Abdul Latif was sentenced to death in 1903 for apostasy, and the internal intelligence organisation his father had put in place was dismantled. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nIn 1901 he passed a law forcing Hindu men to wear yellow turbans and women to wear a yellow veil in public, in order to distinguish them from Muslims. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nIn March 1909 the Afghan constitutionalist movement, a coalition of Islamic scholars, educators and intellectuals, petitioned him to move from absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy; viewing it as a threat to his authority, he accused the signatories of conspiring to assassinate him, executed seven of the leaders and imprisoned the rest. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nIn May 1912 he faced the only crisis of his career, the Khost rebellion led by Jehandad Khan, a rival claimant to the throne; it ended in August of the same year when the rebels were given concessions. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "World War I and assassination",
     "markdown": "Habibullah maintained Afghanistan's neutrality in the First World War despite strenuous efforts by the Ottoman Sultan and a German military mission to enlist Afghanistan on their side, and he greatly reduced tensions with British India, signing a treaty of friendship in 1905 and paying an official state visit in 1907. While in India, he was initiated into Freemasonry at Lodge Concordia. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar}\n\nIn January 1919 he went on a hunt to Kalagosh, in Laghman Province, leaving his third son Amanullah as regent in Kabul. During the night of 19 February 1919 a military officer, Shuja al-Dawla Ghorbandi, slipped past his bodyguards and shot him at very close range, killing him. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\nHis brother Nasrullah Khan briefly succeeded him and held power for a week, between 21 and 28 February 1919, before being ousted and imprisoned by Amanullah Khan. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Personal life",
     "markdown": "The article lists eleven wives and numerous consorts, and twenty-nine sons and thirty-eight daughters; among his sons was Amanullah, who became Emir and then King of Afghanistan. This museum records the family only so far as understanding his reign requires. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Faith record",
     "markdown": "No article text names a school for him. The English article's infobox gives his religion as Sunni Islam; the Arabic article's infobox gives Islam, generically; Wikidata carries no religion value. Under the museum's two-source rule the record therefore stays unknown, with the single structured attestation preserved in the data file. {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar} {cite:wikidata-habibullah-khan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "حبیب اللہ خان بارکزئی (2 جولائی 1872ء – 20 فروری 1919ء) 1901ء سے 1919ء میں اپنے قتل تک افغانستان کے امیر رہے۔ امیر عبد الرحمن خان کے سب سے بڑے بیٹے تھے اور اکتوبر 1901ء میں حقِ بکوری کی بنا پر والد کے جانشین ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ur}\n\nوہ نسبتاً اصلاح پسند حکمران تھے جنہوں نے ملک کو جدید بنانے کی کوشش کی اور پہلی جنگِ عظیم میں عثمانی سلطان اور جرمن فوجی مشن کی بھرپور کوششوں کے باوجود افغانستان کو غیر جانبدار رکھا۔ {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دورِ حکومت",
     "markdown": "اپنے عہد میں جدید طب اور دیگر ٹیکنالوجی افغانستان لائے، اور عام معافی کے فرمان کے تحت والد کے جلاوطن کیے گئے بہت سے لوگ واپس آ سکے۔ 1903ء میں حبیبیہ ہائی اسکول اور فوجی اکیڈمی قائم کی، قانونی اصلاحات کیں اور سخت ترین سزائیں ختم کر دیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}\n\n1909ء میں آئینی تحریک کے علماء، اساتذہ اور دانشوروں نے مطلق العنان بادشاہت سے آئینی بادشاہت کا مطالبہ کیا تو اسے اپنی اقتدار کے لیے خطرہ سمجھ کر سات رہنماؤں کو پھانسی دی اور باقیوں کو قید کر دیا۔ 1912ء میں خوست کی بغاوت کا سامنا ہوا جو رعایات کے وعدے پر ختم ہوئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قتل",
     "markdown": "جنوری 1919ء میں وہ لغمان کے علاقے کالاگوش میں شکار کے لیے گئے اور بیٹے امان اللہ کو کابل میں نائب چھوڑا۔ 19 فروری 1919ء کی رات ایک فوجی افسر شجاع الدولہ غوربندی محافظوں کو چکمہ دے کر قریب سے گولی مار کر انہیں قتل کر گیا۔ ان کے بھائی نصر اللہ خان ایک ہفتے امیر رہے، پھر امان اللہ خان نے انہیں معزول کر کے قید کر دیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مذہبی ریکارڈ",
     "markdown": "کوئی متن ان کے مذہب کا نام نہیں لیتا۔ انگریزی مضمون کا معلوماتی خانہ ان کا مذہب «سنی اسلام» دیتا ہے، عربی مضمون کا خانہ عموماً «اسلام» دیتا ہے اور ویکی ڈیٹا میں مذہب کی کوئی قیمت نہیں۔ لہٰذا عجائب گھر کے دو ماخذوں کے اصول کے تحت ریکارڈ «نامعلوم» رہتا ہے اور واحد بناوٹی شہادت ڈیٹا فائل میں محفوظ ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-habibullah-khan-ar} {cite:wikidata-habibullah-khan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
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