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  "ar": "أحمد منجم باشي",
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  "ar": "أحمد بن لطف الله، الشهير بلقبه منجم باشي، أي رئيس المنجّمين (1631 – 28 شباط 1702)، مؤرخ وفلكي وشاعر صوفي عثماني من سلانيك. تربّى في التكايا المولوية، خمس عشرة سنة في مولوية قاسم باشا بإسطنبول، وصار منجّمًا باشيًا سنة 1668 ومصاحبًا للسلطان محمد الرابع، ثم نُفي إلى مصر سنة 1687 وانتهى شيخًا لمولوية مكة. كتابه «جامع الدول» تاريخ عام كتبه بالعربية واشتهر بترجمته التركية «صحائف الأخبار»، وهو مصدر فريد لأخبار دويلات ما وراء القفقاس المسلمة.",
  "en": "Ahmed ibn Lütfullah, known by his court title Müneccimbaşı, 'Chief Astrologer' (1631 – 28 February 1702), was an Ottoman historian, astronomer and Sufi poet from Salonica. Formed in the Mevlevi lodges — fifteen years at the Kasımpaşa lodge in Istanbul — he became chief court astrologer in 1668 and an imperial companion of Mehmed IV, was exiled to Egypt in 1687, and ended as sheikh of the Mevlevi lodge of Mecca. His Jami' al-Duwal, a world history written in Arabic and best known in its Turkish rendering Saha'if al-Akhbar, is a unique source for the minor Muslim dynasties of Transcaucasia.",
  "ur": "احمد بن لطف اللہ، اپنے عہدی لقب منجم باشی یعنی رئیسِ منجمین سے مشہور (1631ء – 28 فروری 1702ء)، سلانیک سے تعلق رکھنے والے عثمانی مؤرخ، ماہرِ فلکیات اور صوفی شاعر تھے۔ مولوی خانقاہوں میں تربیت پائی، استنبول کی قاسم پاشا مولوی خانقاہ میں پندرہ برس رہے، 1668ء میں منجم باشی اور محمد رابع کے مصاحب بنے، 1687ء میں مصر جلاوطن ہوئے اور آخر میں مکہ کی مولوی خانقاہ کے شیخ بنے۔ ان کی «جامع الدول» عربی میں لکھی گئی عالمی تاریخ ہے جو اپنے ترکی ترجمے «صحائف الاخبار» سے مشہور ہوئی۔"
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   "note": "Born at Salonica, where his father Lütfullah, a native of Ereğli in Konya, had settled. The Turkish article and the Wikidata item give 1631; the English article hedges the year as falling in the first half of the 17th century and attributes 1631 to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, so the year is built as debated. The year 1631 spans 1040–1041 AH, so no single Hijri year is built.",
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     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أحمد بن لطف الله، الشهير بلقبه «منجم باشي» أي رئيس منجّمي القصر، مؤرخ وفلكي وشاعر صوفي عثماني وُلد في سلانيك سنة 1631 وتوفي بمكة في 28 شباط 1702 — وتذكر المقالة الإنجليزية 27 شباط.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} انتسب في شبابه إلى شيخ مولوية سلانيك محمد أفندي فصار مولويًّا، ولازم خمس عشرة سنة شيخ مولوية قاسم باشا بإسطنبول، ثم انتهى شيخًا لمولوية مكة.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar} وكتابه «جامع الدول» من أهم التواريخ العامة العثمانية.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}"
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     "heading": "النشأة والتكوين المولوي",
     "markdown": "كان أبوه لطف الله من أهالي أرغلي بقونية واستقرّ في سلانيك، وعمل الابن أولًا في حياكة الشال مهنة أبيه، وتعلّم في مخالطته ليهود سلانيك الإيطالية والإسبانية.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr} ثم انتسب إلى شيخ المولوية بسلانيك محمد أفندي فصار مولويًّا وبدأ تحصيله في التكية، وانتقل سنة 1665 إلى إسطنبول فخدم شيخ مولوية غلطة أرضي ده ده، وقرأ التفسير والحديث والفقه على علماء العصر، ثم انتسب إلى الشيخ خليل أفندي بمولوية قاسم باشا فلازمه خمس عشرة سنة، وقرأ في أثنائها المنطق والفلسفة والهيئة والطب.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr} وتوافق المقالة الإنجليزية في سنوات قاسم باشا الخمس عشرة تحت الشيخ خليل ده ده.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} وتسمّيه المقالة العربية «المولوي» صراحة.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}"
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     "heading": "في البلاط ثم المنفى",
     "markdown": "عُيّن منجمًا باشيًا سنة 1668 بعد وفاة سلفه، وصار من مصاحبي السلطان محمد الرابع المقرّبين.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} فلما خُلع محمد الرابع سنة 1687 عُزل ونُفي إلى مصر، فانتقل مع ابنه الروحي والي مصر مورالي حسن باشا إلى مكة سنة 1690 ثم المدينة، ودرّس فيهما، ثم عاد إلى مكة فصار شيخ مولويتها سنة 1700، ودُعي في تلك السنة إلى استئناف منصبه بإسطنبول فاعتذر بكبر سنّه.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}"
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     "heading": "المؤلفات",
     "markdown": "أعظم أعماله «جامع الدول»، تاريخ عام كتبه بالعربية بأمر الصدر الأعظم قره مصطفى باشا، من آدم إلى سنة 1678، وهو حافظ لمواد من مصادر مفقودة ولا سيما في دويلات أذربيجان وشروان وأرّان المسلمة، وأول تاريخ إسلامي يعرض لسلالات كبابل والسلوقيين من مصادر رومية ويهودية وأوروبية.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} واشتهر الكتاب بترجمته التركية «صحائف الأخبار» التي أعدّها أحمد نديم في القرن الثامن عشر.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} وله ديوان شعر صوفي باسم «عاشق» القلمي، ورسائل في الهندسة والموسيقى والمنطق والتصوف، وحاشية على تفسير البيضاوي، وشرح على أخلاق القاضي عضد الدين.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}"
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     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي بمكة سنة 1702 وقد جاوز السبعين، ودُفن قرب ضريح خديجة.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} وتؤرّخ المقالة التركية وفاته بـ28 شباط 1702 والمقالة الإنجليزية بـ27 شباط، أما المقالة العربية فتؤرّخها بـ29 رمضان 1113هـ، وكل القراءات محفوظة في سجلّه.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ahmed ibn Lütfullah, known by his court title Müneccimbaşı, \"Chief Astrologer\", was an Ottoman historian, astronomer and Sufi poet born at Salonica in 1631 and died at Mecca on 28 February 1702 — the English article gives 27 February.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} In his youth he affiliated himself to the sheikh of the Salonica Mevlevi lodge and became a Mevlevi, spent fifteen years under the sheikh of the Kasımpaşa lodge in Istanbul, and ended as sheikh of the Mevlevi lodge of Mecca.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar} His Jami' al-Duwal is among the most important Ottoman universal histories.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}"
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     "heading": "Upbringing and Mevlevi formation",
     "markdown": "His father Lütfullah, a native of Ereğli in Konya, had settled at Salonica, and the son first practised his father's trade of shawl-weaving, learning Italian and Spanish in his dealings with Salonica's Jewish community.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr} He then affiliated himself (intisap) to Sheikh Mehmed Efendi of the Salonica Mevlevi lodge and became a Mevlevi, beginning his studies there; in 1665 he moved to Istanbul, served Arzî Dede of the Galata lodge, read tafsir, hadith and fiqh with leading scholars, and then attached himself to Sheikh Halil Efendi at the Kasımpaşa Mevlevihanesi, in whose lessons he spent fifteen years, also studying logic, philosophy, astronomy and medicine.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr} The English article agrees on the fifteen years at the Kasımpaşa Mevlevi lodge under Sheikh Halil Dede.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} The Arabic article names him outright al-Mawlawi, the Mevlevi.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}"
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     "heading": "Court service and exile",
     "markdown": "He was appointed chief astrologer in 1668 on his predecessor's death and became one of Sultan Mehmed IV's imperial companions.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} When Mehmed IV was deposed in 1687 he was dismissed and exiled to Egypt; he moved with his adopted son Moralı Hasan Pasha, the governor, to Mecca in 1690 and then to Medina, teaching in both cities, and returned to Mecca, where he became sheikh of its Mevlevi lodge in 1700 and declined a recall to the chief astrologer's post in Istanbul on account of his age.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}"
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     "heading": "Works",
     "markdown": "His chief work is the Jami' al-Duwal, \"The Compendium of Nations\", a world history in Arabic commissioned by the grand vizier Kara Mustafa, running from Adam to 1678 and preserving material from lost sources, above all for the Muslim dynasties of Adharbayjan, Shirvan and Arran; he was also the first Islamic historian to treat dynasties such as the Babylonians and Seleucids, using Roman, Jewish and West European sources alongside his own.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} The work became best known through Ahmed Nedim's eighteenth-century Turkish rendering, the Saha'if al-Akhbar.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} He also wrote a diwan of mystical verse under the pen name Âşık, treatises on geometry, music, logic and mysticism, a commentary on al-Baydawi's tafsir, and annotations on Qadi Adud al-Din's ethics.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}"
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     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died at Mecca in 1702, past seventy, and was buried near the mausoleum of Khadija.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} The Turkish article dates the death to 28 February 1702 and the English article to 27 February, while the Arabic article gives 29 Ramadan 1113 AH; all readings are preserved in his record.{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}"
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     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "احمد بن لطف اللہ، اپنے عہدی لقب «منجم باشی» (رئیسِ منجمین) سے مشہور، عثمانی مؤرخ، ماہرِ فلکیات اور صوفی شاعر تھے؛ 1631ء میں سلانیک میں پیدا ہوئے اور 28 فروری 1702ء کو مکہ میں وفات پائی۔{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} جوانی میں سلانیک کی مولوی خانقاہ کے شیخ سے بیعت کر کے مولوی بنے، استنبول کی قاسم پاشا خانقاہ میں پندرہ برس رہے اور آخر میں مکہ کی مولوی خانقاہ کے شیخ بنے۔{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-ar}"
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     "heading": "زندگی اور کام",
     "markdown": "آبائی پیشہ شال بافی تھا؛ 1668ء میں منجم باشی مقرر ہوئے اور محمد رابع کے مصاحب بنے۔ 1687ء میں سلطان کی معزولی پر مصر جلاوطن کیے گئے، پھر مکہ و مدینہ میں رہے اور درس دیا۔{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-tr}{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en} ان کی عظیم تصنیف «جامع الدول» عربی عالمی تاریخ ہے جو ترکی ترجمے «صحائف الاخبار» سے مشہور ہوئی؛ اس کے علاوہ «عاشق» کے قلمی نام سے صوفی دیوان اور ہندسہ، موسیقی و منطق پر رسائل لکھے۔{cite:wikipedia-muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede-en}"
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