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 "id": "person/moktar-ould-daddah",
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 "slug": "moktar-ould-daddah",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المختار ولد داداه",
  "en": "Moktar Ould Daddah",
  "ur": "مختار ولد داداہ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "سياسي موريتاني (1924–2003) من أسرة مرابطية في بوتلميت، أول موريتاني يحصل على شهادة جامعية (الحقوق، باريس)، شغل منصب أول رئيس وزراء للبلاد (1957–1961) وأول رئيس لها (1960–1978)، فأسّس الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية عند الاستقلال وحكم بنظام الحزب الواحد تحت برنامج «الاشتراكية الإسلامية» وخاض حرب الصحراء الغربية، حتى أطاح به انقلاب عسكري في 10 يوليو 1978؛ وبعد السجن والمنفى في فرنسا عاد سنة 2001 وتوفي في باريس في 14 أكتوبر 2003.",
  "en": "Mauritanian politician (1924–2003) from a marabout family of Boutilimit, the first Mauritanian to hold a university degree (law, Paris), who served as the country's first prime minister (1957–1961) and first president (1960–1978), founding the Islamic Republic of Mauritania at independence, ruling through a one-party state under a programme of 'Islamic socialism', and fighting the Western Sahara war, until a military coup deposed him on 10 July 1978; after imprisonment and exile in France he returned in 2001 and died in Paris on 14 October 2003.",
  "ur": "موریتانی سیاست دان (1924ء–2003ء)، بوتیلمیت کے ایک مرابط خاندان سے؛ یونیورسٹی ڈگری (قانون، پیرس) پانے والے پہلے موریتانی؛ ملک کے پہلے وزیرِ اعظم (1957ء–1961ء) اور پہلے صدر (1960ء–1978ء) رہے، آزادی پر اسلامی جمہوریہ موریتانیہ کی بنیاد رکھی، یک جماعتی نظام اور «اسلامی اشتراکیت» کے پروگرام کے تحت حکومت کی اور مغربی صحارا کی جنگ لڑی، حتیٰ کہ 10 جولائی 1978ء کو فوجی بغاوت نے انھیں ہٹا دیا؛ قید اور فرانس میں جلاوطنی کے بعد 2001ء میں واپس آئے اور 14 اکتوبر 2003ء کو پیرس میں انتقال ہوا۔"
 },
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1924.980595084088,
  "latest": 2003.7857724662065
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1924-12-25",
   "hijri": "1343",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata give his birth on 25 December 1924 at Boutilimit in French Mauritania; Wikidata also carries a second, year-precision value of 1924. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en",
    "source/wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-ar",
    "source/wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "2003-10-14",
   "hijri": "1424",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata give his death in Paris on 14 October 2003; the French article's lead gives 15 October 2003. The one-day variant is preserved here and the majority date followed. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en",
    "source/wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-ar",
    "source/wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-fr",
    "source/wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah"
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Moktar Ould Daddah",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Moktar Ould Mohamed Ould Daddah",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "المختار ولد داداه",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "المختار ولد محمد ولد داداه",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "مختار ولد داداہ",
    "kind": "full"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "politician"
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   "edtf": "1924-12-25",
   "hijri": "1343",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata give his birth on 25 December 1924 at Boutilimit in French Mauritania; Wikidata also carries a second, year-precision value of 1924. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-ar",
    "source/wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah"
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "2003-10-14",
   "hijri": "1424",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata give his death in Paris on 14 October 2003; the French article's lead gives 15 October 2003. The one-day variant is preserved here and the majority date followed. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-ar",
    "source/wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-fr",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No article text names his school. What exists is one structured family plus background: the Arabic article's infobox names his religion 'Sunni Muslim' (مسلم سني), the French article's infobox names Islam, and Wikidata carries the single value Sunni Islam, plausibly the Arabic infobox's echo; infoboxes and one structured item are one family. The English text gives only his birth into a marabout family and his schooling at Islamic academies — family background and formation, which never count — and his 'Islamic socialism' was a state programme, not a personal attestation; both articles file him under Muslim socialists, and filings never count. The Sunni reading thus stands one full family short of sunni/documented (the moussa-traore and josh-malihabadi configuration); the value stays unknown with the reading preserved here.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Moktar Ould Daddah' (revision 1379542004 of 10 October 2026), Arabic Wikipedia 'المختار ولد داداه' (revision 76469921 of 8 September 2026), Urdu Wikipedia 'مختار ولد داداہ' (revision 10403332 of 14 May 2026), French Wikipedia 'Moktar Ould Daddah' (revision 238732500 of 18 August 2026) and Wikidata item Q345385 (item revision 2528386980 of 7 August 2026), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn, and the Wikidata item revision was read from the API itself (its date is internally coherent). Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (daddah, moktar — no hits), by Arabic label, by biography and by the QID route across data/person/ — no earlier record exists, and his Arabic label matches no existing record's label; his half-brother Ahmed Ould Daddah, named in the articles, likewise has no record. No place entity exists for Boutilimit or Paris, so no born_in or died_in edge is written; no successor_of edge is written — he was the first holder of the presidency, and the officer who displaced him in 1978, Mustafa Ould Salek, has no person record.",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتكوين",
     "markdown": "وُلد داداه في بوتلميت في أسرة مرابطية مرموقة من قبيلة أولاد بيري، والتحق بأكاديميات إسلامية نخبوية، وعمل مترجما لدى الإدارة الاستعمارية الفرنسية. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} وحين درس الحقوق في باريس تخرّج فكان أول موريتاني يحصل على شهادة جامعية، وقُبل في نقابة المحامين في داكار سنة 1955. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أول رئيس",
     "markdown": "عُيّن داداه رئيسا بالنيابة للجمهورية الإسلامية الجديدة عند الاستقلال في 28 نوفمبر 1960 وأُكّد في منصبه في أول انتخابات بعد الاستقلال في أغسطس 1961، فأقام دولة حزب واحد استبدادية بحزبه حزب الشعب الموريتاني واتّبع سياسة «اشتراكية إسلامية» مع تأميمات كثيرة. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} ودعا ميثاقه سنة 1975 إلى أن تصير موريتانيا ديمقراطية إسلامية قومية مركزية اشتراكية، واستهلكت رئاسته حرب الصحراء الغربية بعد اشتراك موريتانيا مع المغرب في تقسيم الإقليم. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الإطاحة والمنفى والوفاة",
     "markdown": "أطاح انقلاب عسكري بداداه في 10 يوليو 1978. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} وبعد فترة سجن سُمح له بالذهاب إلى المنفى في فرنسا في أغسطس 1979، فأسّس هناك التحالف من أجل موريتانيا ديمقراطية سنة 1980، وعاش منذ 1985 مع أسرته في نيس. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} وسُمح له بالعودة إلى موريتانيا في 17 يوليو 2001، وتوفي في باريس في 14 أكتوبر 2003. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} {cite:wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملحوظة على السجل",
     "markdown": "يسمّي صندوق معلومات المقالة العربية دينَ داداه «مسلم سني»، ويسمّي صندوق المقالة الفرنسية الإسلام، وتحمل ويكيداتا «الإسلام السني» قيمة واحدة؛ ولا يشهد أي نصّ بمذهب له شخصيا — فالمقالة الإنجليزية لا تقدم إلا أسرته المرابطية ودراسته الإسلامية، وهما أصل وتكوين — لذا يقيّد المتحف دينه غير معروف ويحفظ القراءة السنّية في ملف البيانات. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-ar} {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-fr} {cite:wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah} ويعطي مطلع المقالة الفرنسية وفاته في 15 أكتوبر 2003، أي بعد يوم من المقالتين الإنجليزية والعربية وويكيداتا؛ والاختلاف مسجّل في ملف البيانات. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، مسجّلة في `data/source/`."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/moktar-ould-daddah",
    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-27"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Formation",
     "markdown": "Daddah was born at Boutilimit into an important marabout family of the Ouled Birri tribe, attended elite Islamic academies, and worked for the French colonial administration as a translator. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} As a law student in Paris he graduated as the first Mauritanian to hold a university degree, and he was admitted to the bar at Dakar in 1955. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "First president",
     "markdown": "Named acting president of the new Islamic Republic at independence on 28 November 1960 and confirmed in the first post-independence election of August 1961, Daddah established an authoritarian one-party state under his Mauritanian People's Party and followed a policy of \"Islamic socialism\" with many nationalisations. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} His 1975 charter called for Mauritania to become an Islamic, nationalist, centralist and socialist democracy, and his presidency was consumed by the Western Sahara war after Mauritania joined Morocco in dividing the territory. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Overthrow, exile and death",
     "markdown": "A military coup deposed Daddah on 10 July 1978. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} After a period of imprisonment he was allowed to go into exile in France in August 1979, where he organised the Alliance for a Democratic Mauritania in 1980; from 1985 he lived with his family at Nice. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} He was allowed to return to Mauritania on 17 July 2001, and he died in Paris on 14 October 2003. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} {cite:wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "A note on the record",
     "markdown": "The Arabic article's infobox names Daddah's religion \"Sunni Muslim\", the French article's infobox names Islam, and Wikidata carries Sunni Islam as a single value; no article text attests a school for him personally — the English text gives his marabout family and his Islamic schooling, which are background and formation — so the museum records his faith as unknown and preserves the Sunni reading in the data file. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-ar} {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-fr} {cite:wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah} The French article's lead gives his death on 15 October 2003, one day later than the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata; the variant is recorded in the data file. {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/moktar-ould-daddah",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-27"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تشکیل و تعلیم",
     "markdown": "داداہ بوتیلمیت کے ایک نمایاں مرابط خاندان (اولاد بیری قبیلہ) میں پیدا ہوئے، ممتاز اسلامی اکادمیوں میں پڑھے اور فرانسیسی نوآبادیاتی انتظامیہ کے مترجم رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} پیرس میں قانون کی تعلیم کے بعد وہ یونیورسٹی ڈگری پانے والے پہلے موریتانی بنے اور 1955ء میں ڈاکار کی عدالت میں وکیل کے طور پر داخل ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "پہلے صدر",
     "markdown": "28 نومبر 1960ء کو آزادی پر نئی اسلامی جمہوریہ کے قائم مقام صدر بنے اور اگست 1961ء کے پہلے انتخاب میں تصدیق پائی؛ انھوں نے اپنی موریتانی عوامی جماعت کے تحت یک جماعتی ریاست قائم کی اور «اسلامی اشتراکیت» کی پالیسی اپنائی۔ {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} ان کی صدارت مغربی صحارا کی جنگ میں الجھ گئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "معزولی، جلاوطنی اور وفات",
     "markdown": "10 جولائی 1978ء کو فوجی بغاوت نے انھیں ہٹا دیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} قید کے بعد اگست 1979ء میں انھیں فرانس جلاوطن ہونے دیا گیا؛ 17 جولائی 2001ء کو واپسی کی اجازت ملی، اور 14 اکتوبر 2003ء کو پیرس میں انتقال ہوا۔ {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-en} {cite:wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ریکارڈ پر نوٹ",
     "markdown": "عربی مضمون کا معلوماتی خانہ ان کا مذہب «سنی مسلم» لکھتا ہے، فرانسیسی خانہ اسلام کا نام لیتا ہے اور ویکی ڈیٹا پر «سنی اسلام» ایک ہی قیمت ہے؛ کوئی متن ذاتی طور پر ان کا مکتب بیان نہیں کرتا — انگریزی متن صرف ان کا مرابط خاندان اور اسلامی تعلیم دیتا ہے، جو پس منظر و تشکیل ہے — اس لیے عجائب گھر ان کا ایمان نامعلوم درج کرتا ہے اور سنی قراءت ڈیٹا فائل میں محفوظ ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-ar} {cite:wikipedia-moktar-ould-daddah-fr} {cite:wikidata-moktar-ould-daddah}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مصادر",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ دیے گئے معرّف ماخذ کيانات، `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔"
    }
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  "person/ahmed-asmat-abdel-meguid",
  "person/ahmed-ben-bella",
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  "person/ahmed-kuftaro",
  "person/ali-safi-golpaygani",
  "person/boutros-boutros-ghali",
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