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  "ar": "محمد ناظم الحقاني",
  "en": "Nazim Al-Haqqani",
  "ur": "محمد ناظم حقانی"
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  "ar": "قائد صوفي تركي قبرصي (1922–2014)، شيخ الفرع الحقاني من الطريقة النقشبندية؛ وُلد في لارنكا بقبرص، ودرس الهندسة الكيميائية والشريعة في إسطنبول، وبُويع في النقشبندية وتدرّب على يد عبد الله الفائز الداغستاني حتى صار مرشده الرئيس، وبعد وفاة مرشده سنة 1973 عُدّ خليفته، فانتشرت دعوته في أوروبا الغربية وأمريكا الشمالية، وتوفي في نيقوسيا الشمالية ودُفن في لفكه.",
  "en": "Turkish Cypriot Sufi leader (1922–2014), Grand Shaykh of the Haqqani branch of the Naqshbandi order. Born in Larnaca, Cyprus, he studied chemical engineering and sharia in Istanbul, was initiated into the Naqshbandi order and trained under Abdullah al-Faiz ad-Daghistani, his principal guide; after his guide's death in 1973 he was regarded as his successor, and his teaching spread through Western Europe and North America. He died in North Nicosia and was buried at Lefke.",
  "ur": "ترک قبرصی صوفی رہنما (1922–2014)، سلسلہ نقشبندیہ کی حقانی شاخ کے شیخ؛ لارنکا میں پیدا ہوئے، استنبول میں کیمیائی انجینئرنگ اور شریعت پڑھی، عبد اللہ الفائز داغستانی سے بیعت و تربیت پائی، 1973 میں ان کے جانشین مانے گئے، وفات شمالی نیکوسیا میں ہوئی اور لفکے میں دفن ہوئے۔"
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   "edtf": "1922-04-21",
   "hijri": "1340",
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   "status": "debated",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give 21 April 1922 at Larnaca, Cyprus, and are followed. The Arabic and Urdu articles give 23 April 1922, the Arabic pairing the day with 26 Sha'ban 1340 AH; the tabular conversion of 26 Sha'ban 1340 is 24 April 1922, so the Arabic pairing is internally inconsistent. All witnesses agree on the year and on Larnaca. Larnaca has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "2014-05-07",
   "hijri": "1435",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
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   "note": "Died 7 May 2014 at the Near East University Hospital in North Nicosia, where he had been admitted from his home in Lefke (English article, whose own Hijri correspondence for the day is 8 Rajab 1435; the tabular conversion is 7 Rajab). He is buried at his dergah in Lefke, Cyprus. Nicosia and Lefke have no place entities, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written.",
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   {
    "value": "Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "Mehmet Nâzım Âdil",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Nazim al-Qubrusi",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Shaykh Nazim",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "محمد ناظم عادل القبرصي الحقاني النقشبندي",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give 21 April 1922 at Larnaca, Cyprus, and are followed. The Arabic and Urdu articles give 23 April 1922, the Arabic pairing the day with 26 Sha'ban 1340 AH; the tabular conversion of 26 Sha'ban 1340 is 24 April 1922, so the Arabic pairing is internally inconsistent. All witnesses agree on the year and on Larnaca. Larnaca has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "hijri": "1435",
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   "note": "Died 7 May 2014 at the Near East University Hospital in North Nicosia, where he had been admitted from his home in Lefke (English article, whose own Hijri correspondence for the day is 8 Rajab 1435; the tabular conversion is 7 Rajab). He is buried at his dergah in Lefke, Cyprus. Nicosia and Lefke have no place entities, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "sufi",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "Two independent article texts name his Sufi affiliation personally, in the Idris Senussi pattern of membership stated in text rather than office alone. The English text states that he was initiated in the Naqshbandi Sufi order by Sulayman Arzarumi and trained in Damascus under Abdullah ad-Daghistani, who became his principal murshid (spiritual guide), and its lead calls him a Sufi Muslim leader and Grand Shaykh of the Haqqani branch. The Arabic text states personally that he received the Qadiri order from his father and the Mawlawi order from his maternal grandfather, calls him one of the authorities of Naqshbandi Sufism, and narrates his taking the principles of the path from ad-Daghistani; the Urdu text agrees. No sunni or sunni-hanafi segment is recorded: Sunni denomination and Hanafi jurisprudence appear only in the English infobox, and one infobox never counts; Wikidata gives his religion as Sufism and Islam.",
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   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Nazim Al-Haqqani, each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1381916390, AR 71032250, UR 12109753) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q1275426 (revision 2554347805). Existence checks by name fragments (Nazim, al-Haqqani, al-Qubrusi, Kıbrısî, ناظم الحقاني) and by QID across data/person and data/source found no prior record for him; the existing records haqqani-mehmed-bey, nazim-mustafa-efendi and nazim-poet are different, earlier people. No relations are written: his teachers Abdullah ad-Daghistani and Jamal al-Din al-Alsuni have no records, and Larnaca, Nicosia and Lefke have no place entities; place/qubrus is a classical-era island entity and no person record uses it. The lane queue gives 1922–2014; the sources agree on the years, with the birth day contested between 21 and 23 April and recorded as debated.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمد ناظم عادل القبرصي الحقاني (1922 – 7 مايو 2014)، المعروف بالشيخ ناظم، أحد مرجعيات الصوفية النقشبندية وشيخ الفرع الحقاني منها، تلقّى من والده الطريقة القادرية ومن جدّه لأمه الطريقة المولوية.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar}{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في لارنكا بقبرص سنة 1922؛ تذكر المقالة الإنجليزية وويكيداتا 21 أبريل، وتذكر المقالة العربية 23 أبريل مقترنًا عندها بـ26 شعبان 1340هـ.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar} ومنذ طفولته كان يتوجّه إلى درس جدّه شيخ الطريقة القادرية ليتعلّم نظامها وروحانيتها.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar} انتقل سنة 1940 إلى إسطنبول فبدأ دراسة الهندسة الكيميائية في جامعتها، وتقدّم في الوقت نفسه في علوم الشريعة واللغة العربية على الشيخ جمال الدين الأسوني فأجازه فيهما.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar}{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "طريقه الصوفي",
     "markdown": "بُويع ناظم في الطريقة النقشبندية على يد سليمان أرظرومي الذي وجّهه إلى إكمال دراسته في دمشق، فدخلها سنة 1945 بعد نهاية الحرب العالمية الثانية. {cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} وفي دمشق التقى عبد الله الفائز الداغستاني فتبادلا البيعة، وتدرّب على يده في الطريق النقشبندي حتى صار مرشده الرئيس إلى وفاته سنة 1973.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} وبعد أخذ المبادئ من الداغستاني أُمر بالعودة إلى بلده قبرص، فبدأ بنشر الإرشادات الروحية والتعاليم الإسلامية فيها واجتمع حوله مريدون كثيرون تقبّلوا الطريقة النقشبندية.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشاطه الدعوي",
     "markdown": "حين عاد إلى قبرص وجد الممارسات الدينية مقيّدة، والأذان بالعربية ممنوعًا، فأذّن بالعربية وحُوكم وقضى أسبوعًا في السجن، ثم واصل الأذان من الجامع الكبير في نيقوسيا.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar} ومن سنة 1952 أقام في دمشق مواصلًا دراسته مع الداغستاني مع قضائه ثلاثة أشهر أو أكثر كل سنة في قبرص.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} وبعد وفاة الداغستاني سنة 1973 عُدّ خليفته الروحي، وبدأ من 1974 زيارات سنوية إلى أوروبا الغربية، فاجتمع حوله أتباع كثيرون من أوروبا الغربية وأمريكا الشمالية، ونُشرت محاضراته في الإسلام والتصوف بالإنجليزية ولغات أوروبية أخرى من سنة 1980.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} وكان يُدرج باستمرار في قوائم «الخمسمائة مسلم الأكثر تأثيرًا»، فحلّ في المرتبة 42 في طبعة 2013–2014.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "في أواخر حياته كان يستقبل الزائرين في بيته بلفكه في قبرص.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} أُدخل المستشفى في نيقوسيا الشمالية في 17 أبريل 2014 لعلاج فشل كلوي وتنفسي، وتوفي في 7 مايو 2014 عن عمر 92 عامًا، ودُفن في مقامه بلفكه.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-nazim-al-haqqani}}"
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    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani (21 April 1922 – 7 May 2014), commonly known as Shaykh Nazim, was a Turkish Cypriot Sufi Muslim leader and scholar, the spiritual leader (Grand Shaykh) of the Haqqani branch of the Naqshbandi order of Sufism.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} The Arabic article describes him as one of the authorities of Naqshbandi Sufism, who received the Qadiri order from his father and the Mawlawi order from his maternal grandfather.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and studies",
     "markdown": "Nazim al-Haqqani was born Mehmet Nazim Adil on 21 April 1922 in Larnaca, Cyprus; the Arabic and Urdu articles give 23 April 1922, the Arabic pairing it with 26 Sha'ban 1340 AH.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar} From childhood in Cyprus he attended the lessons of his grandfather, a shaykh of the Qadiri order.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar} In 1940 he moved to Istanbul, where he enrolled at Istanbul University to study chemical engineering, and he studied classical Arabic and fiqh under Jamal al-Din al-Alsuni, from whom he received an ijaza to teach those subjects.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Sufi path",
     "markdown": "Nazim was initiated in the Naqshbandi Sufi order by Sulayman Arzarumi, who directed him to continue his studies in Damascus; he entered Damascus in 1945, after the end of the Second World War.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} In Damascus he met Abdullah al-Faiz ad-Daghistani, with whom he exchanged the bay'ah; ad-Daghistani trained him in the Naqshbandi path and became his principal murshid until his death in 1973.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} Sent back to Cyprus by his shaykh's order, he began missionary activity there and gathered many disciples who accepted the Naqshbandi order.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Missionary activity",
     "markdown": "In Cyprus he defied the prohibition on reciting the call to prayer in Arabic, performing the adhan in Arabic and spending a week in prison, before continuing from Nicosia's grand mosque.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar} From 1952 he lived in Damascus, continuing his studies with ad-Daghistani while spending three months or more each year in Cyprus.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} After ad-Daghistani's death in 1973 he was regarded as his spiritual successor; from 1974 he visited Western Europe annually, attracting a substantial following among Western European and North American seekers, and from 1980 his lectures on Islam and Sufism were published in English and other European languages.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} He was frequently included in The 500 Most Influential Muslims, ranked 42nd in the 2013–2014 edition.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "In later life Nazim received visitors at his home in Lefke, Cyprus.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} He had been receiving medical care at the Near East University Hospital in North Nicosia since 17 April 2014 for kidney and respiratory failure, and died on 7 May 2014, aged 92; he is buried at his dergah in Lefke.{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-nazim-al-haqqani}}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "محمد ناظم حقانی (1922 – 7 مئی 2014) صوفی سلسلہ نقشبندیہ کے معروف مرجع تھے؛ انھوں نے اپنے والد سے قادری سلسلہ اور والدہ کے والد سے مولوی سلسلہ حاصل کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ur}"
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    {
     "heading": "نشوونما اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ لارنکا، قبرص میں پیدا ہوئے؛ اردو اور عربی مضامین ان کی پیدائش 23 اپریل 1922 بتاتے ہیں جب کہ انگریزی مضمون اور وکی ڈیٹا 21 اپریل دیتے ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ur}{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} بچپن سے ہی وہ اپنے جد، شیخِ قادری، کے درس میں شریک ہوتے اور روحانیت سیکھتے۔{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ur} 1940 میں انھوں نے استنبول یونیورسٹی میں کیمیائی انجینئرنگ کی تعلیم شروع کی اور ساتھ ہی عربی اور شرعی علوم شیخ جمال الدین اسنوی سے پڑھے، جن سے انھیں تدریس کی اجازت ملی۔{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ur}{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "صوفی راستہ اور تبلیغ",
     "markdown": "انھیں سلیمان ارضرومی نے نقشبندی سلسلے میں بیعت کیا اور دمشق بھیجا، جہاں 1945 میں ان کی ملاقات شیخ عبد اللہ الفائز داغستانی سے ہوئی جو 1973 میں ان کی وفات تک ان کے اصل مرشد رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en} مرشد کے حکم پر قبرص واپس جا کر انھوں نے نقشبندی سلسلے کی تبلیغ شروع کی، جس کے نتیجے میں بہت سے مرید ان کے گرد جمع ہو گئے، اور پابندی کے باوجود عربی میں اذان دینے پر انھیں ایک ہفتے قید بھی ہوئی۔{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ur} 1973 میں مرشد کی وفات کے بعد وہ ان کے روحانی جانشین مانے گئے، اور 1974 سے یورپ کے سالانہ دوروں سے مغربی یورپ اور شمالی امریکا میں ان کے پیروکار بڑھے۔{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "آخری عمر میں وہ لفکے، قبرص میں زائرین سے ملتے رہے؛ شمالی نیکوسیا کے اسپتال میں زیرِ علاج رہ کر 7 مئی 2014 کو 92 برس کی عمر میں وفات پائی اور لفکے میں اپنے درگاہ کے پاس دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}"
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     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-nazim-al-haqqani-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-nazim-al-haqqani}}"
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