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  "ar": "سيد محمود",
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  "ar": "قاضٍ وفقيه قانوني هندي (1850-1903) من دلهي، الابن الثاني لسيد أحمد خان. درس في إنجلترا ودُعي إلى نقابة المحاماة سنة 1872، ثم صار قاضي محكمة الله آباد العليا (1887-1893)، أولَ هندي يُعيَّن فيها وأولَ مسلم يتولى قضاء محكمة عليا في الهند البريطانية، واشتهر بأحكامه الطويلة المنشورة في تقارير القانون الهندية. ساعد والده في تأسيس الكلية الشرقية الأنجلو-محمدية في عليكرة وكتب «تاريخ التعليم الإنجليزي في الهند» (1895).",
  "en": "Indian judge and jurist (1850–1903) of Delhi, the second son of Syed Ahmad Khan. Educated in England and called to the Bar in 1872, he became a puisne judge of the Allahabad High Court (1887–1893) — the first Indian appointed to that court and the first Muslim to serve as a High Court judge in British India — known for his long judgments published in the Indian Law Reports. He helped his father found the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh and wrote A History of English Education in India (1895).",
  "ur": "ہندوستانی جج اور ماہر قانون (1850ء–1903ء) جن کا تعلق دلی سے تھا اور جو سر سید احمد خان کے دوسرے بیٹے تھے۔ انگلستان میں تعلیم پائی اور 1872ء میں بار میں داخل ہوئے؛ الٰہ آباد ہائی کورٹ کے جج بنے (1887ء–1893ء)، اس عدالت میں مقرر ہونے والے پہلے ہندوستانی اور برطانوی ہند میں ہائی کورٹ کے پہلے مسلم جج۔ انھوں نے والد کی علی گڑھ میں محمڈن اینگلو اورینٹل کالج کے قیام میں مدد کی۔"
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   "note": "Born in Delhi on 24 May 1850, the second son of Syed Ahmad Khan: the English and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree. The Hijri year (1266) is derived by tabular conversion (24 May 1850 falls in Rajab 1266).",
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   "edtf": "1903-05-08",
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   "note": "Died at Sitapur on 8 May 1903, aged 52: the English and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree. (A stale mirror of the English article shows 1943 in its infobox; the article's lead, text and all other sources give 1903, which is followed.) The Hijri year (1321) is derived by tabular conversion (8 May 1903 falls in Safar 1321). Sitapur has no place entity in the museum yet, so no died_in relation is written.",
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    "value": "سيد محمود",
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   "note": "Born in Delhi on 24 May 1850, the second son of Syed Ahmad Khan: the English and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree. The Hijri year (1266) is derived by tabular conversion (24 May 1850 falls in Rajab 1266).",
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   "note": "Died at Sitapur on 8 May 1903, aged 52: the English and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree. (A stale mirror of the English article shows 1943 in its infobox; the article's lead, text and all other sources give 1903, which is followed.) The Hijri year (1321) is derived by tabular conversion (8 May 1903 falls in Safar 1321). Sitapur has no place entity in the museum yet, so no died_in relation is written.",
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    "note": "NOT RECORDED AS DOCUMENTED — no fetched source names a school for Mahmood himself. The English and Urdu articles name no school; Wikidata (P140) gives only Islam. His father Syed Ahmad Khan's outlook is the father's, not the son's attestation, and his Aligarh college work and his command of Muslim law as a judge are affiliations and professional learning, not schools (the lane's near-miss rule). Under the lane's two-source rule and the founder's doubt rule the value stays unknown.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Syed Mahmood', rev. 1372262827 of 31 August 2026; Urdu Wikipedia «سید محمود», rev. 11800964 of 18 August 2026; Wikidata Q7660363 read via the API. Identity verified from Mahmood's own article (not his father's). No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him. All read in full on 25 October 2026.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "سيد محمود (24 مايو 1850 – 8 مايو 1903)، المعروف بلقب القاضي، قاضٍ في محكمة الشمال الغربي العليا في الهند البريطانية من 1887 إلى 1893، بعد أن خدم فيها قاضيا مؤقتا في أربع فترات سابقة منذ 1882. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} كان أول فقيه قانوني هندي يُعيَّن في محكمة الله آباد العليا، وأول مسلم يتولى قضاء محكمة عليا في الراج البريطاني، وكان له دور كبير في مساعدة والده سيد أحمد خان على تأسيس الكلية الشرقية الأنجلو-محمدية التي صارت جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد سيد محمود في دلهي في 24 مايو 1850، الابنَ الثاني لسيد أحمد خان، ودرس لاحقا في مراد آباد وعليكرة، وهما مدينتان نُقل والده إليهما في خدمة الهند المدنية، كما درس في كلية الحكومة في دلهي وكلية الملكة في بينارس قبل أن يجتاز امتحان القبول في جامعة كلكتا سنة 1868 وينال منحة من الحكومة البريطانية في الهند للدراسة في إنجلترا. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} التحق محمود سنة 1869 بلنكنز إن ودُعي إلى نقابة المحاماة في أبريل 1872، ودرس في الوقت نفسه تقريبا اللاتينية واليونانية واللغات الشرقية سنتين في كلية المسيح في كامبريدج من 1870 دون أن يتخرج. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة القانونية",
     "markdown": "عاد محمود إلى الهند فسجّل اسمه محاميا في محكمة الله آباد العليا سنة 1872، أولَ هندي يحقق هذا التميز في تلك المحكمة، وعمل محاميا في الله آباد حتى 1878. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} عيّنه نائب الملك اللورد ليتون سنة 1879 قاضي مقاطعة وجلسات في أوده، وبقي هذا منصبه الأساسي في الخدمة المدنية الهندية حتى عُيّن سنة 1887 قاضيا أصيلا في محكمة الله آباد العليا، مع فترات متقطعة من التعيينات المؤقتة، وأُعير مدة قصيرة إلى نظام حيدر آباد حيث ساعد في الإدارة القضائية سنة 1881. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} نال محمود سنة 1882 أول تعيين مؤقت له قاضيا في المحكمة العليا، بدعم من نائب الملك اللورد ريبون، وخدم مؤقتا ثلاث مرات أخرى قبل تعيينه الكامل سنة 1887. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} عُرف محمود على منصة القضاء بأحكامه الطويلة المفصلة المنشورة في تقارير القانون، وقد أثنى ويتلي ستوكس على أحكامه في «القوانين الأنجلو-هندية»، وكانت معرفته بالعربية التي اكتسبها في كامبريدج عونا قيّما له في تقييم القانون الإسلامي بحسب ما تذكره المقالة نقلا عن كوزلوفسكي. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} رُفضت آراء محمود كثيرا من الهيئة الكاملة المؤلفة غالبا من قضاة بريطانيين، وأدت إطالاته وآراؤه المخالفة المتكررة إلى خلافات مع زملائه ثم إلى تقاعد مبكر سنة 1893؛ ويذكر كوزلوفسكي أن التقاعد جاء بضغط بسبب إفراطه الشديد في الشرب، وهو ما أنكره محمود وعزاه إلى حسد رئيس القضاة جون إدج، مع إقرار أصدقائه بأنها مشكلة. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} عاد محمود بعد تقاعده إلى ممارسة المحاماة في لكناو، وخدم في مجلس الشمال الغربي وأوده التشريعي من 1896 إلى 1898. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "العمل التعليمي",
     "markdown": "كتب محمود، بعد عودته من إنجلترا سنة 1872 بوقت قصير، مقترحا لتأسيس كلية مسلمة معتمدة على نفسها في الهند على نموذج كامبريدج، ثم ساعد والده في تأسيس الكلية الشرقية الأنجلو-محمدية في عليكرة وواصل دورا حيويا في إدارتها وهو يعمل محاميا وقاضيا في الله آباد. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} سافر محمود إلى إنجلترا سنة 1883 لاستقدام ثيودور بيك مديرا للمدرسة، وشارك في تدريس الإنجليزية وتأسيس برنامج للقانون فيها، وتبرع بجزء كبير من مكتبته القانونية لتكوين مكتبة قانونية لها. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} رشّحه والده سنة 1889 أمينا مشتركا لمجلس أمناء المدرسة، وتولى بعد وفاة والده سنة 1898 مسؤوليات الأمين المشترك الفخري مدى الحياة، ثم خَلَفه نواب محسن الملك سنة 1899 ورُفع محمود إلى منصب الرئيس الفخري. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} عُيّن محمود أيضا مفوضا في لجنة التعليم سنة 1882 في إدارة ريبون، وشارك بفاعلية في المؤتمر التعليمي المحمدي لعموم الهند محاضرا عن تاريخ التعليم الإنجليزي في الهند في اجتماعَي 1893 و1894. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الكتابات والأسرة والوفاة",
     "markdown": "كان أول إسهام لمحمود في الأدب القانوني ترجمة أردية لقانون الإثبات لسنة 1872 وتعديلاته، نُشرت سنة 1876، ونشر محاضراته منقحة بالإنجليزية بعنوان «تاريخ التعليم الإنجليزي في الهند» سنة 1895، أما إسهامه الكتابي الأكبر فهو نحو ثلاثمئة حكم مسجل في تقارير القانون الهندية، سلسلة الله آباد، بين 1882 و1892. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} تزوج محمود سنة 1888 مشرف جهان، ابنة نواب خواجة شرف الدين أحمد، ولهما ابن واحد هو روس مسعود. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} انتقل محمود سنة 1900، بعد أن تباعد عن أسرته وعن كلية عليكرة، إلى سيتابور حيث عاش مع ابن عمه سيد محمد أحمد حتى وفاته سنة 1903. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، وهي مسجلة في `data/source/`."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Syed Mahmood (24 May 1850 – 8 May 1903), known by the title Justice, was a puisne judge of the High Court in the North-Western Provinces of British India from 1887 to 1893, after serving in the High Court in a temporary capacity as officiating judge on four previous occasions since 1882. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} He was the first Indian jurist to be appointed to the High Court at Allahabad and the first Muslim to serve as a High Court judge in the British Raj, and he played a major role in assisting his father, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, in establishing the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, which later became Aligarh Muslim University. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Education",
     "markdown": "Syed Mahmood was born in Delhi on 24 May 1850, the second son of Syed Ahmad Khan, and studied in Moradabad and Aligarh, cities to which his father had been posted, as well as at Government College in Delhi and Queen's College in Benares, before passing his Matriculation Examination at the University of Calcutta in 1868 and receiving a British government scholarship to study in England. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} In 1869 Mahmood was admitted to Lincoln's Inn and in April 1872 he was called to the Bar; from 1870 he also studied Latin, Greek and oriental languages for two years at Christ's College, Cambridge, without graduating. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legal career",
     "markdown": "After returning to India, Mahmood enrolled as a barrister in the High Court in Allahabad in 1872, the first Indian to achieve that distinction in that court, and worked as a barrister in Allahabad until 1878. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} In 1879 the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, appointed him a District and Sessions Judge in Oudh, his substantive Indian Civil Service appointment until 1887, when he was appointed Puisne Judge of the High Court at Allahabad, interrupted several times by temporary officiating appointments and briefly seconded to the Nizam in Hyderabad State in 1881 to assist with judicial administration. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} Mahmood received his first officiating appointment as a High Court judge in 1882, with lobbying on his behalf by Lord Ripon, and served as officiating judge three more times before his full appointment in 1887. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} On the bench he was known for lengthy, detailed written judgments published in the Law Reports; Whitley Stokes praised them in his Anglo-Indian Codes, and Kozlowski notes that his knowledge of Arabic, gained at Cambridge, was invaluable for assessing Muslim law. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} His opinions were very often rejected by the full bench of mostly British judges, and his prolixity and frequent dissents led to conflicts and eventually to an early retirement in 1893; Kozlowski attributes the retirement to pressure over his severe drunkenness, which Mahmood denied, blaming the jealousy of Chief Justice John Edge, while even his friends acknowledged it was a problem. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} After retiring he returned to practice as a barrister in Lucknow and served on the North-Western Provinces and Oudh Legislative Council from 1896 to 1898. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Educational work",
     "markdown": "Shortly after returning from England in 1872, Mahmood wrote a proposal for a self-supporting Muslim college in India on the Cambridge model, then assisted his father in founding the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh, playing a vital role in its administration while working in Allahabad. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} In 1883 he returned to England to recruit Theodore Beck as the school's principal, taught English classes, helped establish a law programme, and donated a major portion of his legal collection to form its legal library. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} In 1889 his father nominated him Joint Secretary of the board of trustees; after his father's death in 1898 he served as Life Honorary Joint Secretary, was replaced by Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk in 1899, and was elevated to Honorary President. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} He was also a commissioner of the 1882 Education Commission under Ripon and lectured on the history of English education in India at the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference meetings of 1893 and 1894. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Writings, family and death",
     "markdown": "Mahmood's first legal publication was an Urdu translation of the 1872 Law of Evidence, published in 1876; he published his revised lectures as A History of English Education in India in 1895, and his major written contribution was the approximately 300 legal judgments recorded in the Indian Law Reports: Allahabad Series between 1882 and 1892. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} In 1888 Mahmood married Musharraf Jahan, daughter of Nawab Khwajah Sharfuddin Ahmad, and they had one son, Ross Masood. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} In 1900, estranged from his family and the college, Mahmood moved to Sitapur, where he lived with his cousin Syed Muhammad Ahmad until his death in 1903. {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
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     "heading": "References",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "جسٹس سید محمود (24 مئی 1850ء – 8 مئی 1903ء) شمال مغربی صوبوں کی ہائی کورٹ کے پویسنے جج تھے (1887ء–1893ء)، الٰہ آباد ہائی کورٹ میں مقرر ہونے والے پہلے ہندوستانی اور برطانوی راج میں ہائی کورٹ کے پہلے مسلم جج۔ {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-ur} انھوں نے اپنے والد سر سید احمد خان کی محمڈن اینگلو اورینٹل کالج کے قیام میں مدد کی، جو بعد میں علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی بنا۔ {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تعلیم و قضا",
     "markdown": "محمود دلی میں پیدا ہوئے، سر سید احمد خان کے دوسرے بیٹے تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} انھوں نے انگلستان میں تعلیم پائی، 1872ء میں بار میں داخل ہوئے اور اسی سال الٰہ آباد ہائی کورٹ میں پہلے ہندوستانی بیرسٹر بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} وہ اپنے طویل تفصیلی فیصلوں کے لیے مشہور ہوئے جو انڈین لا رپورٹس میں شائع ہوئے، اور 1893ء میں قبل از وقت ریٹائر ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en} محمود کا انتقال 1903ء میں سیتاپور میں ہوا۔ {cite:wikipedia-syed-mahmood-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- اوپر مستشہد شدہ معرّف ذرائع، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔"
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