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  "ar": "سياسي فلسطيني (1881–1951) تولّى رئاسة بلدية القدس من 1920 إلى 1935 وقاد حزب الدفاع الوطني منافسًا لآل الحسيني.",
  "en": "Palestinian politician (1881–1951) who served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1920 to 1935 and led the National Defence Party in rivalry with the Husayni family."
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  "latest": 1951.3274742123067
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   "note": "Born in Jerusalem in 1881, the year given by the English article and Wikidata {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikidata-raghib-al-nashashibi}; the Arabic article's lead gives 1880 {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar}. The year 1881 is recorded with the conflict stated.",
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   "note": "Died of illness in April 1951; the place is contested — the English article gives the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en}, while Wikidata's place-of-death value is Jordan {cite:wikidata-raghib-al-nashashibi}. Because the two conflict, no died_in relation is written and the place is carried in this note and the prose only.",
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   "edtf": "1951-04",
   "hijri": "1370",
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   "note": "Died of illness in April 1951; the place is contested — the English article gives the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en}, while Wikidata's place-of-death value is Jordan {cite:wikidata-raghib-al-nashashibi}. Because the two conflict, no died_in relation is written and the place is carried in this note and the prose only.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Neither article's text or infobox states his religion {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar}. Wikidata's religion field gives Islam, one structured-data value {cite:wikidata-raghib-al-nashashibi}. Under the lane rule the affiliation stays unknown.",
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   "source": "English and Arabic Wikipedia and Wikidata Q1362338, 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",
   "created": "2026-10-26",
   "note": "Built 2026-10-26 (wave 53, group B) from the English article (revision 1381190195), the Arabic article (revision 76846710) and Wikidata item Q1362338. Existence checked both routes: no al-Nashashibi person record by name fragments, and no record citing Q1362338; the existing person/rami-nashashibi is a different, modern bearer of the family name. The queue line's spelling 'Raghib' is followed; the articles' 'Raghib' matches it."
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "راغب النشاشيبي (1881–1951) سياسي فلسطيني تولّى رئاسة بلدية القدس من 1920 إلى 1935 وصار الشخصية القيادية في حزب الدفاع الوطني، المعسكر المنافس الرئيس لآل الحسيني في فلسطين الانتدابية {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته ومسيرته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في القدس — يعطي المقال الإنجليزي وويكيداتا عام 1881، والمقال العربي عام 1880 — لعائلة النشاشيبي، ودرس الهندسة في جامعة الأستانة. عمل مهندسًا للواء القدس وجلس في مجلس المبعوثان العثماني من 1914 إلى 1918 {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar} {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en}.\n\nوفي عام 1920 عيّنه المندوب السامي البريطاني رئيسًا لبلدية القدس خلفًا لموسى كاظم الحسيني، الذي أقاله البريطانيون بعد أحداث النبي موسى. وبقي في رئاسة البلدية حتى 1935، فأُعيد انتخابه عام 1927 لكنه خسر مقعده في المجلس عام 1934 أمام حسين الخالدي. وكان عضوًا مؤسسًا في اللجنة العربية العليا وقاد حزب الدفاع الوطني، ويذكر المقال الإنجليزي أنه كان يفضّل سرًا الاتحاد مع شرق الأردن عام 1937 ثقلًا موازنًا لأمين الحسيني. فرّ إلى مصر عام 1948 ثم عاد إلى الضفة الغربية وتولّى مناصب وزارية أردنية، وتوفي بالمرض في نيسان 1951 — في مستشفى أوغستا فيكتوريا في القدس الشرقية بحسب المقال الإنجليزي، بينما تعطي ويكيداتا الأردن مكانًا للوفاة {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقيدته",
     "markdown": "لا يذكر أي من المقالين دينه، وتعطي قيمة ويكيداتا البنيوية الوحيدة الإسلام. لذا تُسجَّل عقيدته مجهولة {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar} {cite:wikidata-raghib-al-nashashibi}."
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Raghib al-Nashashibi (1881–1951) was a Palestinian politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1920 to 1935 and became the leading figure of the National Defence Party, the principal rival camp to the Husayni family in Mandate Palestine {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life and career",
     "markdown": "He was born in Jerusalem — the English article and Wikidata give 1881, the Arabic article 1880 — into the Nashashibi family, and studied engineering at Istanbul University. He worked as the Jerusalem district engineer and sat in the Ottoman General Assembly from 1914 to 1918 {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar}.\n\nIn 1920 the British High Commissioner appointed him mayor of Jerusalem in succession to Musa Kazim al-Husayni, whom the British had dismissed after the Nabi Musa riots. He held the mayoralty until 1935, winning re-election in 1927 but losing his council seat in 1934 to Hussein al-Khalidi. He was a founding member of the Arab Higher Committee, led the National Defence Party, and, the English article records, secretly favoured union with Transjordan in 1937 as a counterweight to Amin al-Husseini. He fled to Egypt in 1948, later returned to the West Bank, held Jordanian ministerial posts, and died of illness in April 1951 — at the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem according to the English article, while Wikidata gives Jordan as the place of death {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Faith",
     "markdown": "Neither article states his religion, and Wikidata's single structured value gives Islam. His affiliation is therefore recorded as unknown {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikidata-raghib-al-nashashibi}."
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "راغب النشاشیبی (1881–1951) ایک فلسطینی سیاست دان تھے جو 1920 سے 1935 تک یروشلم کے میئر رہے اور نیشنل ڈیفنس پارٹی کی سرکردہ شخصیت بنے، جو مینڈیٹ فلسطین میں آلِ حسینی کا اصل حریف کیمپ تھی {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور کیریئر",
     "markdown": "وہ یروشلم میں پیدا ہوئے — انگریزی مضمون اور ویکی ڈیٹا 1881 دیتے ہیں، عربی مضمون 1880 — نشاشیبی خاندان میں، اور استنبول یونیورسٹی میں انجینئرنگ کی تعلیم حاصل کی۔ انہوں نے یروشلم کے ضلعی انجینئر کے طور پر کام کیا اور 1914 سے 1918 تک عثمانی جنرل اسمبلی کے رکن رہے {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-ar}۔\n\n1920 میں برطانوی ہائی کمشنر نے انہیں یروشلم کا میئر مقرر کیا، موسیٰ کاظم الحسینی کے جانشین کے طور پر، جنہیں برطانویوں نے نبی موسیٰ فسادات کے بعد برطرف کر دیا تھا۔ وہ 1935 تک میئر رہے؛ 1927 میں دوبارہ منتخب ہوئے لیکن 1934 میں حسین الخالدی سے اپنی کونسل کی نشست ہار گئے۔ وہ عرب ہائر کمیٹی کے بانی ارکان میں سے تھے، نیشنل ڈیفنس پارٹی کی قیادت کی، اور، انگریزی مضمون کے مطابق، 1937 میں امین الحسینی کے مقابلے کے طور پر خفیہ طور پر شرق اردن کے ساتھ اتحاد کے حامی تھے۔ وہ 1948 میں مصر فرار ہو گئے، بعد میں مغربی کنارے واپس آئے، اردنی وزارتی عہدے سنبھالے، اور اپریل 1951 میں بیماری سے انتقال کر گئے — انگریزی مضمون کے مطابق مشرقی یروشلم کے آگسٹا وکٹوریا اسپتال میں، جبکہ ویکی ڈیٹا جائے وفات اردن بتاتا ہے {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقیدہ",
     "markdown": "کسی بھی مضمون میں ان کا مذہب بیان نہیں ہوا، اور ویکی ڈیٹا کی واحد ساختی قدر اسلام دیتی ہے۔ لہٰذا ان کی وابستگی نامعلوم درج ہے {cite:wikipedia-raghib-al-nashashibi-en} {cite:wikidata-raghib-al-nashashibi}۔"
    }
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