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  "ar": "موسى كاظم الحسيني",
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  "ar": "سياسي فلسطيني (1853–1934)، والٍ عثماني ورئيس بلدية القدس (1918–1920)، ترأّس اللجنة التنفيذية العربية للمؤتمر العربي الفلسطيني من 1920 حتى وفاته.",
  "en": "Palestinian politician (1853–1934), an Ottoman governor and mayor of Jerusalem (1918–1920) who chaired the Executive Committee of the Palestine Arab Congress from 1920 until his death."
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   "note": "Born in Jerusalem in 1853 {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar}.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia and Wikidata Q2662234, each read at the revision recorded in its source file and checked on 26 October 2026",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
   "run": "century-additions-53",
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   "note": "Built 2026-10-26 (wave 53, group B) from the English article (revision 1380105996), the Arabic article «موسى كاظم الحسيني» (revision 72070942), the Urdu article (revision 11734872) and Wikidata item Q2662234. Existence checked both routes: no Musa al-Husayni person record by name fragments, and no record citing Q2662234; the museum's classical al-Husayni records are different, earlier men. His father Salim, his brother Hussein and his son Abd al-Qader al-Husseini have no museum records, so their kinship is carried in the prose only."
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "موسى كاظم باشا الحسيني (1853–1934) سياسي فلسطيني ترقّى في الإدارة العثمانية، وتولّى رئاسة بلدية القدس من 1918 إلى 1920، وترأّس من 1920 حتى وفاته اللجنة التنفيذية العربية للمؤتمر العربي الفلسطيني، الهيئة السياسية الفلسطينية القيادية في سنوات الانتداب الأولى {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته ومسيرته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في القدس عام 1853، ابن سليم الحسيني؛ وتولّى شقيقه حسين رئاسة بلدية القدس أيضًا، وكان ابنه عبد القادر الحسيني. تعلّم في المكتب الملكي في الأستانة وتخرّج ثالثًا على مستوى الدولة، وتولّى سلسلة طويلة من المناصب العثمانية — منها صفد وعكار وإربد وعسير ونجد وحوران والمنتفق — وكان قائمقام يافا عام 1905 {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en}.\n\nوفي عام 1918 عيّنه الحاكم العسكري البريطاني رونالد ستورز رئيسًا لبلدية القدس. وبعد أحداث النبي موسى في نيسان 1920 أُقيل واعتُقل مدة وجيزة في عكا، وخلفه راغب النشاشيبي. وفي المؤتمر العربي الفلسطيني الثالث المنعقد في حيفا في كانون الأول 1920 انتُخب رئيسًا للجنته التنفيذية وقادها حتى وفاته، وترأّس وفودًا إلى لندن في 1921 و1923 و1924 وإلى أنقرة ولوزان عام 1922 {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en}.\n\nيعطي المقال الإنجليزي وفاته في القدس في 27 آذار 1934، وقد ساد الاعتقاد يومئذ أن وفاته نجمت عن إصابات لحقت به أثناء مظاهرة مناهضة للبريطانيين؛ أما المقالان العربي والأردي فيعطيان 26 آذار 1934 والوفاة في يافا، والدفن عند باب الحديد غربي الحرم الشريف {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقيدته",
     "markdown": "لا يذكر أي مقال من المقالات المعتمدة هنا دينه، ولا يحمل عنصره في ويكيداتا قيمة للدين. لذا تُسجَّل عقيدته مجهولة {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar} {cite:wikidata-musa-al-husayni}."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husayni (1853–1934) was a Palestinian politician who rose through the Ottoman administration, served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1918 to 1920, and from 1920 until his death chaired the Executive Committee of the Palestine Arab Congress, the leading Palestinian political body of the early Mandate years {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life and career",
     "markdown": "He was born in Jerusalem in 1853, son of Salim al-Husayni; his brother Hussein also served as mayor of Jerusalem, and his son was Abd al-Qader al-Husseini. Educated at the Maktab Malkiya in Istanbul, where he graduated third in the empire, he held a long series of Ottoman governorships — among them Safed, Akkar, Irbid, Asir, Najd, Hauran and al-Muntafaq — and was kaymakam of Jaffa in 1905 {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar}.\n\nIn 1918 the British military governor Ronald Storrs appointed him mayor of Jerusalem. After the April 1920 Nabi Musa riots he was dismissed and briefly imprisoned at Acre; Raghib al-Nashashibi succeeded him. At the third Palestine Arab Congress, held at Haifa in December 1920, he was elected president of its Executive Committee and led it until his death, heading delegations to London in 1921, 1923 and 1924 and to Ankara and Lausanne in 1922, and refusing, the English article records, to conduct his nationalist activity in any language but Arabic {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en}.\n\nThe English article gives his death in Jerusalem on 27 March 1934, widely believed at the time to have resulted from injuries sustained during an anti-British demonstration; the Arabic and Urdu articles give 26 March 1934 and death at Jaffa, with burial at Bab al-Hadid west of the Haram al-Sharif {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ur}."
    },
    {
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     "markdown": "No article followed here states his religion, and his Wikidata item carries no religion value. His affiliation is therefore recorded as unknown {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en} {cite:wikidata-musa-al-husayni}."
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   "sections": [
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "موسیٰ کاظم پاشا حسینی (1853ء–1934ء) فلسطینی سیاست دان تھے جو عثمانی انتظامیہ میں ترقی کرتے ہوئے 1918ء سے 1920ء تک یروشلم کے میئر رہے، اور 1920ء سے اپنی وفات تک فلسطین عرب کانگریس کی ایگزیکٹو کمیٹی کے صدر رہے {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ur} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en}."
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     "heading": "زندگی اور خدمات",
     "markdown": "وہ 1853ء میں یروشلم میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کے والد سلیم حسینی اور بھائی حسین بھی یروشلم کے میئر رہے، اور ان کے بیٹے عبد القادر الحسینی تھے۔ انھوں نے استنبول میں تعلیم پائی اور عثمانی انتظامیہ میں صفد، عکا، اربد، عسیر، نجد اور حوران سمیت متعدد علاقوں کے گورنر رہے، اور 1905ء میں یافا کے قائم مقام مقرر ہوئے {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ur} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en}.\n\n1918ء میں وہ یروشلم کے میئر مقرر ہوئے؛ 1920ء میں برطانوی حکام نے انھیں برطرف کر کے راغب نشاشیبی کو ان کی جگہ مقرر کیا۔ اسی سال تیسرے فلسطینی عرب کانگریس نے انھیں ایگزیکٹو کمیٹی کا صدر منتخب کیا اور وہ وفات تک اس عہدے پر رہے، اور انھوں نے لندن اور انقرہ و لوزان کے وفود کی قیادت کی {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ur} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en}.\n\nانگریزی مقالہ ان کی وفات 27 مارچ 1934ء کو یروشلم میں درج کرتا ہے، جبکہ عربی اور اردو مقالے — ایک ہی مصدری خاندان — 26 مارچ 1934ء اور یافا میں وفات بتاتے ہیں، اور باب الحدید کے قریب تدفین کا ذکر کرتے ہیں {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ur} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-en} {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقیدہ",
     "markdown": "یہاں زیرِ مطالعہ کوئی مقالہ ان کا مذہب بیان نہیں کرتا، اور ان کے ویکی ڈیٹا آئٹم میں مذہب کی کوئی قیمت نہیں ہے۔ اس لیے ان کا عقیدہ نامعلوم درج کیا گیا ہے {cite:wikipedia-musa-al-husayni-ur} {cite:wikidata-musa-al-husayni}."
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