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  "ar": "مظفر الدين شاه قاجار",
  "en": "Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar",
  "ur": "مظفر الدین شاہ قاجار"
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  "ar": "الشاه الخامس من الأسرة القاجارية في إيران (حكم من 1 مايو 1896 إلى يناير 1907)، ابن ناصر الدين شاه وخليفته. بعد خمسة وثلاثين عامًا وليًّا للعهد وحاكمًا لأذربيجان، شهد عهده امتياز دارسي النفطي سنة 1901، ثم منحه الدستور في ديسمبر 1906 تحت ضغط الثورة الدستورية، قبل أيام من وفاته.",
  "en": "Fifth shah of Qajar Iran (reigned 1 May 1896 – January 1907), son and successor of Naser al-Din Shah. After thirty-five years as crown prince and governor of Azerbaijan, his reign brought the D'Arcy oil concession of 1901 and, under the pressure of the Constitutional Revolution, his grant of a constitution in December 1906, days before his death.",
  "ur": "قاجاری ایران کے پانچویں شاہ (دورِ حکومت 1 مئی 1896 تا جنوری 1907)؛ ناصر الدین شاہ کے بیٹے اور جانشین۔ ولی عہد اور آذربائیجان کے گورنر کی حیثیت سے پینتیس برس گزارنے کے بعد ان کے عہد میں 1901 کی ڈارسی تیل رعایت آئی اور آئینی انقلاب کے دباؤ پر انہوں نے دسمبر 1906 میں، اپنی وفات سے چند روز قبل، آئین عطا کیا۔"
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   "edtf": "1853-03-23",
   "hijri": "1269",
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   "note": "Born at Tehran, fourth son of Naser al-Din Shah and Shokouh al-Saltaneh. The English article gives 23 March 1853; Wikidata also carries 25 March 1853, referenced to Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam. The record follows the English article and discloses the variant. The Hijri year 1269 is the derived conversion of 1853.",
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   "edtf": "1907-01-03",
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    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "مظفر الدين شاه قاجار (23 مارس 1853 – يناير 1907) هو الشاه الخامس من الأسرة القاجارية، حكم من 1 مايو 1896 حتى وفاته. بعد خمسة وثلاثين عامًا وليًّا للعهد قضى معظمها حاكمًا لأذربيجان، ورث دولة أثقلتها الديون والامتيازات؛ ويُذكر عهده بامتياز دارسي النفطي سنة 1901، وقبل كل شيء بالدستور الذي منحه في ديسمبر 1906 تحت ضغط الثورة الدستورية، قبل أيام من وفاته. {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}\n\nيوم وفاته منقسم بين المصادر: المقالة الإنجليزية الحالية تعطي 8 يناير 1907، وتحمل ويكيبيانات 3 و6 و9 يناير من مراجع مختلفة، ويؤرَّخ عهد ابنه ابتداءً من 3 يناير. يتبع هذا السجل 3 يناير مع ذكر الانقسام كله. {cite:wikidata-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar} {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ولايته للعهد",
     "markdown": "وُلد في طهران، وهو الابن الرابع لناصر الدين شاه من شكوه السلطنة. عُيّن وليًّا للعهد سنة 1861، وحكم أذربيجان من تبريز معظم سنوات انتظاره الخمس والثلاثين للعرش، في تدرّب طويل على الحكم في الإقليم الذي كان إقطاعية وريث العرش المعتادة، بينما جال أبوه في أوروبا ثلاث مرات حتى اغتيل سنة 1896. {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عهده",
     "markdown": "اتسم عهده بإسراف ملكي في مقابل إيرادات غير كافية. فموّل رحلاته الأوروبية بقرضين كبيرين من روسيا، وفي سنة 1901 وقّع امتياز دارسي مانحًا وليم نوكس دارسي حقوق النفط في معظم فارس لستين عامًا، وهو المنح الذي تنحدر منه صناعة النفط في البلاد. وتصاعد الغضب الشعبي مع بيع مزيد من الامتيازات والاحتكارات لمصالح أوروبية. {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الدستور ووفاته",
     "markdown": "في 1905-06 تضخمت احتجاجات التجار ورجال الدين والمصلحين إلى ثورة دستورية. فالشاه، وقد اشتد به المرض ودفعته إضرابات عامة وحشود لاجئة إلى الحرم، تنازل عن مجلس استشاري وطني في صيف 1906 ووقّع القانون الأساسي في أواخر ديسمبر 1906؛ ومات بعد أيام بذبحة قلبية في طهران، ودُفن في مرقد الإمام الحسين في كربلاء. وخُلّد منحه بشعار «عدل مظفر» المنقوش على قصر بهارستان تكريمًا له. وخلفه ابنه محمد علي شاه، الذي شرع في نقض عمله. {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en} {cite:wikidata-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المذكورة أعلاه، مسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- يجب أن تكون مراجعات هذه المقالة مؤرخة، وأن تسمي المصدر الذي غيّر كل واقعة."
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (23 March 1853 – January 1907) was the fifth shah of the Qajar dynasty, reigning from 1 May 1896 until his death. After thirty-five years as crown prince, mostly spent governing Azerbaijan, he inherited a state strained by debt and concessions; his reign is remembered for the D'Arcy oil concession of 1901 and, above all, for the constitution he granted in December 1906 under the pressure of the Constitutional Revolution, days before he died. {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}\n\nThe day of his death is split across the sources: the current English article gives 8 January 1907, Wikidata carries 3, 6 and 9 January from different references, and his son's reign is dated from 3 January. This record follows 3 January, with the whole split stated. {cite:wikidata-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar} {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Crown prince",
     "markdown": "He was born at Tehran, the fourth son of Naser al-Din Shah and Shokouh al-Saltaneh. Named crown prince in 1861, he governed Azerbaijan from Tabriz for most of the thirty-five years he waited for the throne — a long apprenticeship in the province that was the heir's customary appanage, during which his father toured Europe three times and was assassinated in 1896. {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Reign",
     "markdown": "His reign was marked by royal extravagance against inadequate revenue. To fund his own European journeys he took two large loans from Russia, and in 1901 he signed the D'Arcy concession, granting William Knox D'Arcy the oil rights over most of Persia for sixty years — the grant from which the country's oil industry descends. Public anger mounted as further concessions and monopolies were sold to European interests. {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The constitution and death",
     "markdown": "In 1905–06 the protests of merchants, clergy and reformers swelled into the Constitutional Revolution. Taken ill and pressed by a general strike and sanctuary-taking crowds, the Shah conceded a National Consultative Assembly in the summer of 1906 and signed the Fundamental Law at the end of December 1906; he died days later, of a heart attack, in Tehran, and was buried in the Imam Hussein Shrine at Karbala. The slogan Adl-e Mozaffar, \"the Justice of Mozaffar\", inscribed on the Baharestan Palace, honoured him for the grant. His son Mohammad Ali Shah succeeded him — and set about undoing his work. {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en} {cite:wikidata-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar}"
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     "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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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "مظفر الدین شاہ قاجار (23 مارچ 1853 تا جنوری 1907) قاجاری خاندان کے پانچویں شاہ تھے، جنہوں نے 1 مئی 1896 سے اپنی وفات تک حکومت کی۔ ولی عہد کی حیثیت سے پینتیس برس، جن کا بیشتر حصہ آذربائیجان کی گورنری میں گزرا، گزارنے کے بعد انہیں قرضوں اور مراعات سے دبی ہوئی ریاست ورثے میں ملی؛ ان کا عہد 1901 کی ڈارسی تیل رعایت اور، سب سے بڑھ کر، اس آئین کے لیے یاد کیا جاتا ہے جو انہوں نے آئینی انقلاب کے دباؤ پر دسمبر 1906 میں، اپنی وفات سے چند روز قبل، عطا کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}\n\nان کی تاریخِ وفات مصادر میں مختلف ہے: حالیہ انگریزی مضمون 8 جنوری 1907 دیتا ہے، ویکی ڈیٹا مختلف حوالوں سے 3، 6 اور 9 جنوری درج کرتا ہے، اور ان کے بیٹے کے عہد کا آغاز 3 جنوری سے شمار ہوتا ہے۔ یہ ریکارڈ 3 جنوری کی پیروی کرتا ہے اور پورا اختلاف درج کرتا ہے۔ {cite:wikidata-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar} {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ولی عہدی",
     "markdown": "وہ تہران میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ناصر الدین شاہ اور شکوہ السلطنہ کے چوتھے بیٹے۔ 1861 میں ولی عہد مقرر ہو کر انہوں نے تخت کے انتظار کے پینتیس برسوں کا بیشتر حصہ تبریز سے آذربائیجان کی گورنری میں گزارا — اس صوبے میں طویل تربیت جو وارثِ تخت کا معمول کا علاقہ تھا — جب کہ ان کے والد نے تین مرتبہ یورپ کا دورہ کیا حتیٰ کہ 1896 میں قتل کر دیے گئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دورِ حکومت",
     "markdown": "ان کا عہد ناکافی آمدنی کے مقابل شاہی اسراف سے عبارت تھا۔ اپنے یورپی دوروں کی مالی اعانت کے لیے انہوں نے روس سے دو بڑے قرضے لیے، اور 1901 میں ڈارسی رعایت پر دستخط کیے، جس کے تحت ولیم ناکس ڈارسی کو ساٹھ برس کے لیے فارس کے بیشتر حصے کے تیل کے حقوق مل گئے — وہی عطا جس سے ملک کی تیل صنعت شروع ہوتی ہے۔ مزید مراعات اور اجارے یورپی مفادات کو بیچے جانے پر عوامی غصہ بڑھتا گیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "آئین اور وفات",
     "markdown": "1905-06 میں تاجروں، علما اور مصلحین کے احتجاج آئینی انقلاب کی صورت اختیار کر گئے۔ بیماری کی حالت میں اور عام ہڑتال اور حرم میں پناہ لینے والے ہجوم کے دباؤ پر، شاہ نے 1906 کی گرمیوں میں قومی مشاورتی مجلس کی رعایت دی اور دسمبر 1906 کے اواخر میں بنیادی قانون پر دستخط کیے؛ چند روز بعد تہران میں دل کے دورے سے وفات پائی اور کربلا میں امام حسین کے مزار میں دفن ہوئے۔ بہارستان محل پر کندہ نعرہ «عدلِ مظفر» نے اس عطا پر انہیں خراج پیش کیا۔ ان کے بیٹے محمد علی شاہ ان کے جانشین بنے — اور ان کے کام کو الٹنے لگے۔ {cite:wikipedia-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar-en} {cite:wikidata-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar}"
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     "heading": "مصادر",
     "markdown": "- اوپر مذکور معرّفہ مصادر کے ادارے، `data/source/` میں درج۔\n- اس مضمون کی نظرثانیاں مؤرخ ہونی چاہئیں، اور ہر واقعہ بدلنے والے مصدر کا نام لینا چاہیے۔"
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