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  "ar": "خالد شيلدريك",
  "en": "Khalid Sheldrake",
  "ur": "خالد شیلڈریک"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "صانع مخللات لندني (1888-1947) اعتنق الإسلام فتىً واتخذ اسم خالد، فأسس مساجد في جنوب لندن وجمعية غرب الإسلام، ورعى الأعمال الخيرية للمسلمين؛ وفي 1934 قبل دعوة جمهورية تركستان الشرقية الأولى لتتويجه ملكاً على «إسلامستان» فارتحل شرقاً ولم يبلغ الحكم قط.",
  "en": "London pickle manufacturer (1888-1947) who converted to Islam as a schoolboy, taking the name Khalid; he founded mosques in south London and the Western Islamic Association and funded Muslim charities. In 1934 he accepted the First East Turkestan Republic's invitation to become king of 'Islamestan' and travelled east, but the state collapsed before he could take power.",
  "ur": "لندن کے اچار ساز (1888ء–1947ء) جنہوں نے لڑکپن میں اسلام قبول کر کے خالد کا نام اختیار کیا؛ جنوبی لندن میں مساجد اور ویسٹرن اسلامک ایسوسی ایشن قائم کی اور مسلم فلاحی کاموں کی سرپرستی کی۔ 1934ء میں انہوں نے پہلی مشرقی ترکستان جمہوریہ کی «اسلامستان» کی بادشاہت کی دعوت قبول کی اور مشرق کا سفر کیا، مگر حکومت سنبھالنے سے پہلے ہی وہ ریاست ختم ہو گئی۔"
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  "earliest": 1887.9996851406943,
  "latest": 1947.9981792918086
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   "edtf": "1888",
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   "note": "Born in London in 1888, son of the condiment manufacturer Gosling Mullander Sheldrake; only the year is attested, and a bare year spans two Hijri years (1305-1306), so the hijri field is omitted. London has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1947",
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   "precision": "year",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died in London in 1947; only the year is attested, and a bare year spans two Hijri years (1366-1367), so the hijri field is omitted. London has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "Bertram William Sheldrake",
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   {
    "value": "Khalid Sheldrake",
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   "edtf": "1888",
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   "note": "Born in London in 1888, son of the condiment manufacturer Gosling Mullander Sheldrake; only the year is attested, and a bare year spans two Hijri years (1305-1306), so the hijri field is omitted. London has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-khalid-sheldrake"
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1947",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died in London in 1947; only the year is attested, and a bare year spans two Hijri years (1366-1367), so the hijri field is omitted. London has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written.",
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  "roles": [
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   "writer"
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED for a founder ruling. Received into Islam as a schoolboy — in 1903 on the English article's account, in 1904 at Abdullah Suhrawardy's hand on the National Archives account — he supported the Woking Muslim Mission before breaking away to found his own Western Islamic Association. Ryad's scholarship shows him anxious to prove his closeness to mainstream Islam, hoping for Sunni-Shi'i unity and demanding that the Lahore Ahmadiyya disavow Mirza Ghulam Ahmad altogether; the English article's category filings call him a Sunni convert, but category filings never count, and no two independent sources name a school for him personally. Both readings — the Woking adjacency and the mainstream self-presentation — are preserved unclassified.",
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    "note": "bootstrap from roles, 1 Nov 2026 merge map; dates, places and kind to be read in the Phase 3 sweep",
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  "person/abdullah-i-of-jordan",
  "person/abdullah-yusuf-ali",
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