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  "ar": "محمد خاتمي",
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  "ar": "محمد خاتمي (وُلد 14 تشرين الأول 1943) رجل دين وفيلسوف إصلاحي إيراني، رئيس إيران من 3 آب 1997 إلى 3 آب 2005 خلفًا لأكبر هاشمي رفسنجاني. وزير للثقافة (1982–1992) وصاحب فكرة «حوار الحضارات» التي تبنّتها الأمم المتحدة لسنة 2001، ثم قائد المعسكر الإصلاحي، وهو ابن روح الله خاتمي.",
  "en": "Mohammad Khatami (born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian cleric and reformist philosopher who served as president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005, succeeding Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Minister of culture from 1982 to 1992, he proposed the Dialogue Among Civilizations adopted by the United Nations for 2001 and later led Iran's reformist camp; he is the son of Ruhollah Khatami."
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    "value": "سید محمد خاتمی",
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   "note": "Born at Ardakan in Yazd province on 14 October 1943; the English, Persian (21 Mehr 1322) and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. The Urdu article gives 12 October 1931, an error of that edition recorded in its source file and not followed. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion from the Gregorian date.",
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    "note": "Only one independent text attests an affiliation for him personally: the English article's lead calls him 'an Iranian politician and Shia cleric'. The Persian and Arabic texts name no affiliation for him (the Arabic infobox gives Islam in general); the Urdu text calls him a scholar and cleric without naming a tradition, and its categories file him under Shia headings — a filing, not a text. Wikidata carries Shia Islam in general (Q9585) only. Branch-supporting context exists — a hojjat al-Islam formed in the seminaries, son of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami, president of a republic whose constitution establishes Twelver Ja'fari Shi'ism — but the Shia-mapping rule requires two independent texts attesting 'Shia', and only one does, so the value is recorded as unknown with the attestation and the context preserved here.",
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   "source": "Built 27 October 2026 for wave 100 §A of the century-additions queue (queue lines 549-553) from the English, Persian, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles and the Wikidata item named in the sources list, each fetched by the recorded revision and asserted equal to it, the Wikidata item read twice with identical results. Existence checked both ways before building: name-fragment and slug-variant greps across data/person/ found no record for him (data/person/ruhollah-khatami.yaml is his father, a different person, untouched), and his Wikidata item Q180795 — grounded through the English article pageprops and confirmed through every edition sitelink and the item own claims — appears in no existing person record. Dates and offices follow the English article. No born_in relation is written: he was born at Ardakan, for which the museum holds no place entity. The successor_of relation to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is attested by the Arabic article infobox, which names Rafsanjani as his predecessor. He is recorded as living; no edition reports a death.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نشأته وتكوينه",
     "markdown": "وُلد في أردكان بمحافظة يزد، ابنًا لروح الله خاتمي، ودرس في حوزتي قم وأصفهان ثم نال درجات في الفلسفة. وتصفه المقالة الفارسية بأنه سياستمدار إصلاحي والرئيس الخامس للجمهورية الإسلامية. أما المقالة الأردية فتعطي ولادته 12 تشرين الأول 1931، وهو خطأ في تلك النسخة لا تؤيده أي نسخة أخرى ولا يُتبع هنا. {cite:wikipedia-khatami-fa} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-ur} {cite:wikidata-khatami}"
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    {
     "heading": "مسيرته ورئاسته",
     "markdown": "ترأّس المركز الإسلامي في هامبورغ أواخر السبعينيات، وانتُخب للمجلس سنة 1980، وتولّى وزارة الثقافة من 1982 إلى 1992 حين استقال تحت ضغط المحافظين. وانتُخب رئيسًا سنة 1997 بنحو سبعين بالمئة من الأصوات وأُعيد انتخابه سنة 2001، وطرح فكرة «حوار الحضارات» التي تبنّتها الأمم المتحدة لسنة 2001، ثم صار قائد المعسكر الإصلاحي. {cite:wikipedia-khatami-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دينه",
     "markdown": "يُسجَّل دينه غير معروف، والسبب مصرّح به: نصّ مستقل واحد فقط يشهد له بانتماء شخصي، إذ يسمّيه مطلع المقالة الإنجليزية رجل دين شيعيًا. أما النصان الفارسي والعربي فلا يسمّيان له انتماء (صندوق العربية يعطي الإسلام عمومًا)، والنص الأردي يسمّيه عالمًا ورجل دين دون تسمية مذهب، وتصنيفاته تدرجه في عناوين شيعية — وهو تصنيف لا نصّ. وويكي بيانات يحمل الشيعة عمومًا فقط. ويوجد سياق داعم للفرع — رجل دين تشكّل في الحوزات، ابن مرجع كبير، رئيس جمهورية ينص دستورها على التشيع الجعفري الاثني عشري — لكن قاعدة التحويل في المتحف تشترط نصّين مستقلين يشهدان بـ«شيعي»، ولا يوجد إلا نصّ واحد، فتُحفظ الشهادة والسياق هنا دون قيمة مسجلة. {cite:wikipedia-khatami-en} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-fa} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-ar} {cite:wikidata-khatami}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، وهي مسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- ترجمات وتعديلات لاحقة للمقال تحتاج إلى مراجعة دورية مع تواريخ تحديث واضحة."
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    "lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-27"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and formation",
     "markdown": "He was born at Ardakan in Yazd province, the son of Ruhollah Khatami, and studied at the seminaries of Qom and Isfahan before taking degrees in philosophy. The Persian article presents him as a reformist politician and the fifth president of the Islamic Republic; the Urdu article gives his birth erroneously as 12 October 1931, a date no other edition supports and which is not followed here. {cite:wikipedia-khatami-fa} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-ur} {cite:wikidata-khatami}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career and presidency",
     "markdown": "Khatami headed the Islamic Centre in Hamburg in the late 1970s, was elected to the Majlis in 1980, and served as minister of culture from 1982 to 1992, when he resigned under conservative pressure. Elected president in 1997 with about seventy per cent of the vote and re-elected in 2001, he proposed the Dialogue Among Civilizations, which the United Nations adopted for the year 2001, and he later came to lead Iran's reformist camp; the Arabic article's infobox names Rafsanjani as his predecessor and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his successor. {cite:wikipedia-khatami-en} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Religion",
     "markdown": "His faith is recorded as unknown, and the reason is stated plainly. Only one independent text attests an affiliation for him personally: the English article's lead calls him a Shia cleric. The Persian and Arabic texts name no affiliation (the Arabic infobox gives Islam in general), the Urdu text calls him a scholar and cleric without naming a tradition, and its categories file him under Shia headings — a filing, not a text. Wikidata carries Shia Islam in general. Branch-supporting context exists — a seminary-formed cleric, son of a Grand Ayatollah, president of a republic whose constitution establishes Twelver Ja'fari Shi'ism — but the museum's mapping rule requires two independent texts attesting \"Shia\", and only one does, so the attestation and the context are preserved here without a recorded value. {cite:wikipedia-khatami-en} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-fa} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-ar} {cite:wikidata-khatami}"
    },
    {
     "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."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ صوبہ یزد کے اردکان میں پیدا ہوئے، روح اللہ خاتمی کے بیٹے، اور قم و اصفہان کے حوزوں میں پڑھے پھر فلسفے میں ڈگریاں لیں۔ فارسی مقالہ انہیں اصلاح پسند سیاست دان اور اسلامی جمہوریہ کے پانچویں صدر کے طور پر پیش کرتا ہے۔ اردو مقالہ ان کی پیدائش غلط طور پر 12 اکتوبر 1931ء دیتا ہے، جو کسی اور نسخے سے ثابت نہیں اور یہاں نہیں اپنائی گئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-khatami-fa} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-ur} {cite:wikidata-khatami}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کریئر اور صدارت",
     "markdown": "انہوں نے ستر کی دہائی کے آخر میں ہیمبرگ کے اسلامی مرکز کی سربراہی کی، 1980ء میں مجلس کے رکن چنے گئے، اور 1982ء سے 1992ء تک وزیرِ ثقافت رہے جب وہ قدامت پسند دباؤ پر مستعفی ہوئے۔ 1997ء میں تقریباً ستر فیصد ووٹ لے کر صدر منتخب ہوئے اور 2001ء میں دوبارہ چنے گئے؛ انہوں نے «تہذیبوں کے درمیان مکالمہ» کی تجویز دی جسے اقوامِ متحدہ نے 2001ء کے لیے اپنایا، اور بعد میں ایران کے اصلاح پسند حلقے کے قائد بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-khatami-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مذہب",
     "markdown": "ان کا مذہب نامعلوم درج ہے اور وجہ واضح بیان کی گئی ہے: صرف ایک آزاد متن ان کے شخصی انتماء کی شہادت دیتا ہے — انگریزی مقالے کا آغاز انہیں شیعہ عالمِ دین کہتا ہے۔ فارسی اور عربی متون کوئی انتماء نہیں بتاتے (عربی معلوماتی خانہ عمومی اسلام دیتا ہے)، اردو متن انہیں عالم اور دینی شخصیت کہتا ہے مگر کوئی روایت نہیں بتاتا، اور اس کی زمرہ بندیاں انہیں شیعہ عنوانات میں رکھتی ہیں — یہ فائلنگ ہے، متن نہیں۔ ویکی ڈیٹا صرف عمومی شیعہ اسلام رکھتا ہے۔ شاخ کی تائید کرنے والا تناظر موجود ہے — حوزے میں پڑھے عالم، ایک مرجعِ کبیر کے بیٹے، اس جمہوریہ کے صدر جس کا آئین شیعہ اثنا عشری جعفری مذہب قائم کرتا ہے — مگر عجائب گھر کا تطبیق قاعدہ «شیعہ» کی شہادت دینے والے دو آزاد متون مانگتا ہے اور صرف ایک موجود ہے، اس لیے شہادت اور تناظر یہاں محفوظ ہیں مگر قدر درج نہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-khatami-en} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-fa} {cite:wikipedia-khatami-ar} {cite:wikidata-khatami}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ دیے گئے متعین ماخذ، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مضمون کی ہر نظرثانی تاریخ کے ساتھ ہو، اور بتائے کہ کس ماخذ کی بنیاد پر کون سی بات بدلی گئی۔"
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