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  "ar": "روكسانا بيجوم",
  "en": "Ruqsana Begum",
  "ur": "رکسانا بیگم"
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  "ar": "كيك بوكسر وملاكمة بريطانية وُلدت في لندن سنة 1983 لأسرة من أصل بنغلاديشي. تدرّبت سراً نحو خمس سنوات خوفاً من اعتراض أسرتها، ثم فازت باللقب البريطاني سنة 2010 وبلقب عالمي سنة 2016، وصمّمت خط حجاب رياضي للنساء، وألّفت كتاب «مقاتلة بالفطرة». وهي أيضاً مهندسة معمارية بالتدريب.",
  "en": "British kickboxer and boxer born in London in 1983 to a family of Bangladeshi origin. She trained in secret for almost five years before telling her family, won the British title in 2010 and a world title in 2016, designed a sports-hijab line for women, and wrote the book Born Fighter. She is also a trained architect.",
  "ur": "برطانوی کک باکسر اور باکسر، 1983 میں لندن میں بنگلادیشی نژاد خاندان میں پیدا ہوئیں۔ انہوں نے تقریباً پانچ برس خفیہ تربیت کی، پھر 2010 میں برطانوی اور 2016 میں عالمی اعزاز جیتا، خواتین کے لیے سپورٹس حجاب کی لائن ڈیزائن کی، اور کتاب «بورن فائٹر» لکھی۔ وہ تربیت یافتہ معمار بھی ہیں۔"
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  "earliest": 1983.785361780187,
  "latest": 1983.7880996871625
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   "note": "Born on 15 October 1983 in London. The date is agreed by the English and Persian articles and Wikidata. The place within London conflicts: the English article's infobox and text, citing the Telegraph, say she was born and brought up in Bethnal Green, while Wikidata and the Egyptian Arabic stub say Seven Kings; Bethnal Green is recorded here, following the English article, with the conflict stated. No place entity for London exists in the museum, so the birthplace is carried here only. The Hijri year 1404 is derived from the Gregorian date on the tabular calendar.",
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    "value": "Ruqsana Begum",
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    "value": "রুকসানা বেগম",
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    "value": "Warrior Princess",
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  "gender": "female",
  "roles": [
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   "writer"
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   "hijri": "1404",
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   "note": "Born on 15 October 1983 in London. The date is agreed by the English and Persian articles and Wikidata. The place within London conflicts: the English article's infobox and text, citing the Telegraph, say she was born and brought up in Bethnal Green, while Wikidata and the Egyptian Arabic stub say Seven Kings; Bethnal Green is recorded here, following the English article, with the conflict stated. No place entity for London exists in the museum, so the birthplace is carried here only. The Hijri year 1404 is derived from the Gregorian date on the tabular calendar.",
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    "note": "No school is recorded. Two article texts name her a Muslim personally: the English article, citing Sky News, calls her the only Muslim woman who is a national champion in her sport and, citing the BBC, the first female British Muslim kickboxing champion, and records her upbringing in a strict Muslim household and her 2017 pilgrimage to Mecca; the Persian article states that in 2010 she became the first Muslim woman to win a British Muay Thai championship. Wikidata (Q7380461) gives her religion as Islam (Q432) generically. Neither text names a school or madhhab for her, and upbringing and pilgrimage are family background and practice, not school attestations, so under the two-source rule no value can be recorded — the same disposition as the Fazlur Rahman Khan record, whose sources likewise named him a Muslim without naming a school.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia (revision 1381626386 of 23 October 2026), Persian Wikipedia (revision 44198157 of 16 August 2026), Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia (revision 12565259 of 5 November 2025) and Wikidata Q7380461, each read on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned revision asserted equal before any claim was drawn. No earlier record for Ruqsana Begum existed in data/person/ (name-fragment sweep: ruqsana hits are none; the begum hits are classical namesakes), and Q7380461 was searched across data/person/ and data/source/ with no hit; this is a new build. The QID was pinned by biography — British kickboxer and architect, born 15 October 1983. No standard-Arabic Wikipedia article exists for her (only the Egyptian Arabic stub, which presents her as an architect), so the Arabic prose is written from the English and Persian articles under the Labiba Ahmad precedent. Her birthplace within London conflicts between the sources (Bethnal Green in the English article; Seven Kings in Wikidata and the stub) and is recorded with the conflict stated. No relations are written: London has no place entity in the museum.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "روكسانا بيجوم كيك بوكسر وملاكمة بريطانية، وُلدت في 15 أكتوبر 1983 ونشأت في بيثنال غرين بلندن في أسرة بريطانية من أصل بنغلاديشي. عُرفت بلقب «الأميرة المحاربة»، وفازت باللقب البريطاني للمواي تاي سنة 2010 وبلقب عالمي سنة 2016، ثم احترفت الملاكمة، وصمّمت خط حجاب رياضي لتشجيع النساء المسلمات على الرياضات القتالية، وألّفت كتاب «مقاتلة بالفطرة». وهي مهندسة معمارية بالتدريب، درست في جامعة وستمنستر. {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en} {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-arz}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتدريب السري",
     "markdown": "وُلدت بيجوم وترعرعت في بيثنال غرين في أسرة مسلمة متدينة صارمة. وفي 2002، في الثامنة عشرة، التحقت بدرس كيك بوكسينغ بعد الكلية واحتفظت بتدريبها سراً نحو خمس سنوات خشية ألا توافق أسرتها، حتى أخبرتهم سنة 2006 بعد تخرجها في الجامعة، فزاروا صالتها ولم يمنعوها. وبدأت القتال احترافياً سنة 2008 متدربة عند بيل جاد في صالة كي أو في بيثنال غرين. {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الألقاب",
     "markdown": "في 27 نوفمبر 2010 فازت بيجوم على بيج فارينغتون لتحرز بطولة بريطانيا للمواي تاي للمحترفات في وزن الذرة، ووصفتها سكاي نيوز بأنها المرأة المسلمة الوحيدة بطلةً وطنية في رياضتها. وفي 23 أبريل 2016 فازت على السويدية سوزانا سالميارفي لتحرز لقب رابطة الكيك بوكسينغ العالمية (WKA). وانتقلت إلى الملاكمة الاحترافية سنة 2018، وفي مارس 2023 فازت في دكا ببنغلاديش ببطولة الاتحاد العالمي للملاكمة (WBU) النسائية القارية. {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en} {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-fa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعمالها الأخرى",
     "markdown": "تعاني بيجوم من متلازمة التعب المزمن (ME) وقد كيّفت تدريبها مع حالتها. وهي تدرب الأطفال مجاناً في لندن الشرقية وتعمل مدربة في مؤسسة «فايت فور بيس» الخيرية. وفي 2015 صمّمت حجاباً رياضياً للرياضات القتالية وأطلقت خطها الخاص في أبريل 2016 لمساعدة مزيد من النساء المسلمات على دخول الرياضات القتالية. وحملت الشعلة الأولمبية في غرينتش في 21 يوليو 2012 وحصلت من الملكة إليزابيث الثانية على «جائزة الإنجاز في كسر الحواجز». وصدر كتابها «مقاتلة بالفطرة» سنة 2020 فوصل إلى القائمة القصيرة لجائزة ويليام هيل لكتاب الرياضة للعام. {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المقالات المسجلة في مصادر هذه البطاقة: ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية والفارسية والمصرية، وويكيداتا Q7380461. لا توجد لها مقالة بفصحى ويكيبيديا العربية، فكُتبت هذه الصفحة من المقالتين الإنجليزية والفارسية."
    }
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   "updated": "2026-10-26"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ruqsana Begum is a British kickboxer and boxer, born on 15 October 1983 and brought up in Bethnal Green, London, in a family of Bangladeshi origin. Known as the \"Warrior Princess\", she won the British Muay Thai title in 2010 and a world title in 2016, later turned professional in boxing, designed a sports-hijab line to draw more Muslim women into combat sports, and wrote the book Born Fighter. She is also a trained architect, educated at the University of Westminster. {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en} {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-arz}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and training in secret",
     "markdown": "Begum was born and brought up in Bethnal Green in a strict, religious Muslim household. In 2002, at eighteen, she took up a kickboxing class after college and kept her training secret for almost five years, fearing her family might not approve; she told them in 2006, after graduating from university, and once they had seen the gym they did not stop her. She began fighting professionally in 2008, training under Bill Judd at the KO Gym in Bethnal Green. {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Titles",
     "markdown": "On 27 November 2010 Begum defeated Paige Farrington to win the British Muay Thai atomweight professional title; Sky News described her as the only Muslim woman who is a national champion in her sport. On 23 April 2016 she beat Sweden's Susanna Salmijärvi to win the World Kickboxing Association (WKA) world title. She turned professional in boxing in 2018, and in March 2023, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she won the WBU female intercontinental championship. {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en} {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-fa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Other work",
     "markdown": "Begum lives with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME) and has adapted her training around the condition. She coaches children free of charge in East London and works as a coach for the charity Fight for Peace. In 2015 she designed a sports hijab for combat sports and in April 2016 launched her own line, to help more Muslim women get into combat sports. She carried the Olympic torch in Greenwich on 21 July 2012 and received an \"Achievement Award for Breaking Down Barriers\" from Queen Elizabeth II. Her book Born Fighter (2020) was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- The articles registered in this record's sources: English, Persian and Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, and Wikidata Q7380461. No standard-Arabic Wikipedia article exists for her, so the Arabic page of this record is written from the English and Persian articles."
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "رکسانا بیگم برطانوی کک باکسر اور باکسر ہیں، جو 15 اکتوبر 1983 کو لندن کے بیتھنل گرین میں بنگلادیشی نژاد خاندان میں پیدا ہوئیں اور وہیں پلی بڑھیں۔ «جنگجو شہزادی» کے لقب سے معروف، انہوں نے 2010 میں برطانوی موئے تھائی اعزاز اور 2016 میں عالمی اعزاز جیتا، بعد میں پیشہ ورانہ باکسنگ اختیار کی، مسلم خواتین کو جنگی کھیلوں کی طرف لانے کے لیے سپورٹس حجاب ڈیزائن کیا، اور کتاب «بورن فائٹر» لکھی۔ وہ تربیت یافتہ معمار بھی ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en} {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-fa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مسيرت",
     "markdown": "بیگم نے 2002 میں اٹھارہ برس کی عمر میں کک باکسنگ شروع کی اور خاندان کے اعتراض کے اندیشے سے تقریباً پانچ برس خفیہ تربیت کی؛ 2006 میں انہوں نے خاندان کو بتایا اور انہوں نے انہیں نہیں روکا۔ 27 نومبر 2010 کو انہوں نے برطانوی موئے تھائی اعزاز جیتا — سکائی نیوز نے انہیں اپنے کھیل کی واحد مسلم خاتون قومی چیمپئن قرار دیا — اور 23 اپریل 2016 کو عالمی اعزاز حاصل کیا۔ وہ دائمی تھکن کے عارضے (ME) کے باوجود تربیت جاری رکھتی ہیں، مشرقی لندن کے بچوں کو مفت کوچنگ دیتی ہیں، 2012 میں اولمپک مشعل اٹھائی، اور ان کی کتاب 2020 میں ولیم ہل سپورٹس بک آف دی ایئر کی مختصر فہرست میں شامل ہوئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-ruqsana-begum-en}"
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