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  "ar": "مصالي الحاج",
  "en": "Messali Hadj",
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  "ar": "سياسي وطني جزائري (1898–1974) يُلقب بأبي الوطنية الجزائرية؛ أسس نجم شمال إفريقيا (1926) ثم حزب الشعب الجزائري (1937) وحركة انتصار الحريات الديمقراطية والحركة الوطنية الجزائرية، وقضى عقودًا بين السجن والنفي في سبيل استقلال الجزائر عن فرنسا.",
  "en": "Algerian nationalist politician (1898–1974), often called the father of Algerian nationalism. He founded the Étoile nord-africaine (1926), the Parti du peuple algérien (1937), the MTLD and the Mouvement national algérien, and spent decades in prison and exile in the cause of Algerian independence from France.",
  "ur": "جزائری قوم پرست سیاست دان (1898–1974) جنہیں جزائری قوم پرستی کا باپ کہا جاتا ہے؛ انہوں نے نجم شمال افریقہ (1926)، پھر حزب الشعب الجزائری (1937) اور بعد کی تحریکیں قائم کیں، اور فرانس سے جزائر کی آزادی کی جدوجہد میں دہائیاں قید و جلاوطنی میں گزاریں۔"
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   "note": "Born in Tlemcen, in a Kouloughli family of modest means.",
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   "note": "The date, 3 June 1974, is agreed by all three articles. The English and Arabic articles give Paris as the place of death; the French article gives Gouvieux in the Oise. There is no place entity for either, so no died_in edge is written; he was buried at Tlemcen.",
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    "value": "Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj",
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   "note": "The date, 3 June 1974, is agreed by all three articles. The English and Arabic articles give Paris as the place of death; the French article gives Gouvieux in the Oise. There is no place entity for either, so no died_in edge is written; he was buried at Tlemcen.",
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    "note": "One text tradition names a personal affiliation and the others do not, so under the doubt rule no value is recorded and both readings are preserved. The Arabic article states of Messali himself that he 'was of the Darqawiyya order', in a passage sourced to a single secondary work (Jean-Pierre Charles, Ici. Nous. Là-bas). The English article says only that his mother's family was affiliated with the Darqawiyya brotherhood and that he received a religious education influenced by the Darqawiyya Sufi order (Naylor). The French article records that as a boy he was a pupil at the madrasa of the Derkaoua zaouïa of Cheikh Benyelles, that he kept frequenting the zaouïa, and that his maternal grandfather was a qadi and a member of the confrérie; its infobox gives his religion as Islam. Family membership, schooling and frequentation are not a second personal attestation, and Wikidata carries no religion value.",
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   "source": "English, French and Arabic Wikipedia articles on Messali Hadj, each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1359880714, FR 239929442, AR 76575730) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata Q942087; existence checks by name fragments (Latin and Arabic) and by QID across data/person and data/source found no prior record. The lane queue's death year 1983 is wrong: every source gives 3 June 1974. The English article dates his arrival in Paris to October 1923, the Arabic article to October 1925 while also giving his age as 25; the prose follows the English date and the discrepancy is recorded here.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أحمد بن مصالي الحاج (1898–1974) سياسي وطني جزائري يُلقب غالبًا بأبي الوطنية الجزائرية، أسس أولى الحركات الحديثة المطالبة باستقلال الجزائر.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
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     "heading": "النشأة",
     "markdown": "وُلد بتلمسان في 16 مايو 1898 في أسرة قول أوغلية متواضعة؛ كان أبوه إسكافيًا من أصل تركي، وأمه من عائلة كان أبوها قاضيًا وعضوًا في الطريقة الدرقاوية.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr} وتذكر المقالة الفرنسية أنه كان في صباه تلميذًا بمدرسة الزاوية الدرقاوية عند الشيخ بن يلس وظل يتردد على الزاوية شابًا، بينما تقول المقالة الإنجليزية إنه تلقى تعليمًا دينيًا متأثرًا بالطريقة الدرقاوية، وتقول المقالة العربية عنه شخصيًا إنه «كان من الطريقة الدرقاوية» — وهو اختلاف بين المصادر يحفظه قيد الإيمان في سجله ولا يحسمه.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar} خدم في الجيش الفرنسي من 1918 إلى 1921.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "باريس ونجم شمال إفريقيا",
     "markdown": "قدم مصالي إلى باريس في أكتوبر 1923 — وتقول المقالة العربية أكتوبر 1925 — فضمّه عبد القادر حاج علي إلى اللجنة الاستعمارية للحزب الشيوعي الفرنسي سنة 1925.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar} وفي سنة 1926 أسس نجم شمال إفريقيا، وعرض في بروكسل سنة 1927 مطالبه ومنها إلغاء قانون الأهالي وحق النقابات والتعليم للجميع.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حزب الشعب وما بعده",
     "markdown": "بعد منفاه في جنيف، حيث التقى شكيب أرسلان وتحوّل من الماركسية نحو العروبة، أسس حزب الشعب الجزائري في مارس 1937.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en} حكمت عليه محكمة فيشية سنة 1941 بست عشرة سنة أشغالًا شاقة، فحُبس بجنوب الجزائر ثم في برازافيل، وكان اعتقاله ونفيه من خلفيات انتفاضة سطيف في مايو 1945.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en} ثم قاد حركة انتصار الحريات الديمقراطية، وانفصل عن الكفاح المسلح سنة 1954، وأسس الحركة الوطنية الجزائرية منافسًا لجبهة التحرير الوطني.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي في 3 يونيو 1974 — بباريس عند المقالات الإنجليزية والعربية، وبغوفيو في الواز عند الفرنسية — ودُفن بتلمسان، في مقبرة الشيخ السنوسي عند المقالة العربية.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- ويكيبيديا العربية، «مصالي الحاج».{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar}\n- ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، \"Messali Hadj\".{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}\n- ويكيبيديا الفرنسية، \"Messali Hadj\".{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}\n- ويكيداتا، Q942087.{cite:wikidata-messali-hadj}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj (1898–1974) was an Algerian nationalist politician, often called the father of Algerian nationalism, who founded the first modern movements for Algerian independence.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "He was born in Tlemcen on 16 May 1898 into a Kouloughli family of modest means; his father was a shoemaker of Turkish origin and his mother came from a family whose father was a qadi and a member of the Darqawiyya brotherhood.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr} The French article records that as a boy he was a pupil at the madrasa of the Derkaoua zaouïa of Cheikh Benyelles and kept frequenting the zaouïa as a young man; the English article says he received a religious education influenced by the Darqawiyya order, while the Arabic article states of him personally that he was of the Darqawiyya order — a difference between the sources that the record's faith note preserves rather than resolves.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar} He served in the French army from 1918 to 1921.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "Paris and the Étoile nord-africaine",
     "markdown": "Messali went to Paris in October 1923 — the Arabic article says October 1925 — and was recruited by Abdelkader Hadj Ali to the colonial commission of the French Communist Party in 1925.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar} In 1926 he founded the Étoile nord-africaine, and at Brussels in 1927 he set out its demands, including abolition of the Indigénat, trade-union rights and education for all.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The PPA and the road to 1954",
     "markdown": "After exile in Geneva, where he met Shakib Arslan and reoriented from Marxism towards pan-Arabism, he founded the Parti du peuple algérien in March 1937.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en} A Vichy court sentenced him in 1941 to sixteen years of hard labour, and he was confined in southern Algeria and then Brazzaville; his arrest and deportation formed part of the background to the Sétif uprising of May 1945.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en} He went on to lead the MTLD, dissociated himself from the armed struggle in 1954, and founded the Mouvement national algérien to rival the FLN.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died on 3 June 1974 — in Paris according to the English and Arabic articles, at Gouvieux in the Oise according to the French — and was buried at Tlemcen, in the cemetery of Shaykh al-Sanusi according to the Arabic article.{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar}"
    },
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     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- English Wikipedia, \"Messali Hadj\".{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}\n- French Wikipedia, \"Messali Hadj\".{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}\n- Arabic Wikipedia, \"مصالي الحاج\".{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar}\n- Wikidata, Q942087.{cite:wikidata-messali-hadj}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "احمد بن مصالی الحاج (1898–1974) جزائری قوم پرست سیاست دان تھے جنہیں جزائری قوم پرستی کا باپ کہا جاتا ہے؛ انہوں نے جزائر کی آزادی کی اولین جدید تحریکیں قائم کیں۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ 16 مئی 1898 کو تلمسان میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کی والدہ کا خاندان درقاویہ سلسلے سے وابستہ تھا، فرانسیسی مضمون ان کی بچپن کی تعلیم درقاویہ زاویہ کے مدرسے میں بتاتا ہے، انگریزی مضمون ان کی دینی تعلیم کو درقاویہ سے متاثر کہتا ہے، جبکہ عربی مضمون انہیں خود درقاویہ کا فرد بتاتا ہے — یہ فرق ان کے سجل میں محفوظ ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar} 1918 سے 1921 تک فرانسیسی فوج میں رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیاسی جدوجہد",
     "markdown": "وہ 1923 میں پیرس گئے — عربی مضمون 1925 کہتا ہے — جہاں عبد القادر حاج علی نے انہیں 1925 میں کمیونسٹ پارٹی کی استعماری کمیٹی میں شامل کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar} 1926 میں نجم شمال افریقہ قائم کی، 1937 میں حزب الشعب الجزائری بنائی، 1941 میں ویشی عدالت سے سولہ برس قید با مشقت کی سزا پائی اور برازاویل جلاوطن رہے، اور 1954 کے بعد مسلح جدوجہد سے الگ ہو کر جزائری قومی تحریک (MNA) قائم کی۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "وہ 3 جون 1974 کو وفات پا گئے — انگریزی و عربی مضامین کے مطابق پیرس میں، فرانسیسی کے مطابق گوویو میں — اور تلمسان میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا، \"Messali Hadj\"۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-en}\n- فرانسیسی ویکیپیڈیا، \"Messali Hadj\"۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-fr}\n- عربی ویکیپیڈیا، «مصالي الحاج»۔{cite:wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar}\n- وکی ڈیٹا، Q942087۔{cite:wikidata-messali-hadj}"
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