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 "slug": "zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان",
  "en": "Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan",
  "ur": "زاید بن سلطان آل نہیان"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مؤسس دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة وأول رئيس لها (1971–2004) وحاكم أبوظبي (1966–2004)؛ حاكم المنطقة الشرقية (العين) من 1946، وخلف أخاه شخبوط في حكم أبوظبي في 6 أغسطس 1966، وقاد قيام الاتحاد في 2 ديسمبر 1971 وبقي رئيسًا له حتى وفاته في أبوظبي في 2 نوفمبر 2004، حيث دُفن في صحن مسجد الشيخ زايد الكبير الجديد.",
  "en": "Founding President of the United Arab Emirates (1971–2004) and ruler of Abu Dhabi (1966–2004). Governor of the Eastern Region (Al Ain) from 1946, he succeeded his brother Shakhbut as ruler of Abu Dhabi on 6 August 1966 and led the creation of the federation on 2 December 1971, remaining its president until his death at Abu Dhabi on 2 November 2004; he is buried in the courtyard of the new Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.",
  "ur": "متحدہ عرب امارات کے بانی اور پہلے صدر (1971ء–2004ء) اور ابوظبی کے حکمران (1966ء–2004ء)؛ 1946ء سے مشرقی علاقے (العین) کے گورنر رہے، 6 اگست 1966ء کو اپنے بھائی شخبوط کے جانشین بنے، 2 دسمبر 1971ء کو وفاق کے قیام کی قیادت کی اور 2 نومبر 2004ء کو ابوظبی میں وفات تک اس کے صدر رہے؛ نئی شیخ زاید جامع مسجد کے صحن میں مدفون ہیں۔"
 },
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1918.3411705921408,
  "latest": 2004.839866663897
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1918-05-06",
   "hijri": "1336",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Abu Dhabi on 6 May 1918 (English article; Wikidata gives the same date and place), a son of Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Salama bint Butti Al Qubaisi. The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. The museum has no place entity for Abu Dhabi, so no born_in relation is written.",
   "sources": [
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  "end": {
   "edtf": "2004-11-02",
   "hijri": "1425",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Abu Dhabi on 2 November 2004 (English article; Wikidata gives the same date and place). The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. The museum has no place entity for Abu Dhabi, so no died_in relation is written.",
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Zayed bin Sultan bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "زايد بن سلطان بن زايد بن خليفة آل نهيان",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "أبو خليفة",
    "kind": "kunya"
   },
   {
    "value": "بو خليفة",
    "kind": "kunya"
   }
  ],
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   "hijri": "1336",
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   "note": "Born at Abu Dhabi on 6 May 1918 (English article; Wikidata gives the same date and place), a son of Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Salama bint Butti Al Qubaisi. The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. The museum has no place entity for Abu Dhabi, so no born_in relation is written.",
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   "edtf": "2004-11-02",
   "hijri": "1425",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Abu Dhabi on 2 November 2004 (English article; Wikidata gives the same date and place). The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. The museum has no place entity for Abu Dhabi, so no died_in relation is written.",
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  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED for the founder. A Sunni reading rests on infoboxes alone: the English article's infobox religion field reads 'Sunni Islam' and the Arabic article's reads 'Muslim Sunni' (مسلم سني) — two editions' structured values for the same claim are one source family, not two attestations (the wave-79 two-infoboxes-one-family precedent). No article text names a school for him; the Urdu stub files him under 'Emirati Sunni Muslims' (اماراتی سنی مسلم), a filing; and Wikidata's religion (P140) value is Islam only, so the structured family does not corroborate the branch on Wikidata either. Nothing here counts as an attestation under the lane's rule, so under the doubt rule the school is left unclassified and the reading is preserved here.",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Wikipedia (English), revision 1378232750 of 3 October 2026; Wikipedia (Arabic), revision 76927611 of 9 October 2026; Wikipedia (Urdu), revision 12153620 of 16 October 2026; Wikidata item Q167846, revision 2559431038 of 21 October 2026 — each article fetched by its recorded revision id and asserted equal to it; Wikidata read via its API at the recorded item revision (all read 27 October 2026). No prior museum record: name-fragment, biography, provenance and QID checks across data/person/ found only zayed-bin-khalifa-al-nahyan, his grandfather (d. 1909), a different person. No relations are written: his father Sultan bin Zayed (Q6409495) and his successor as president, Khalifa bin Zayed, have no museum records, no group entity for the Al Nahyan family exists, and there is no place entity for Abu Dhabi.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
   "run": "century-additions-84"
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "حاكم العين ثم حاكم أبوظبي",
     "markdown": "عيّنه أخوه الحاكم شخبوط حاكمًا للمنطقة الشرقية (العين) سنة 1946، فأدارها عشرين عامًا. وفي 6 أغسطس 1966 خُلف شخبوط بعد خلعه، فصار زايد حاكم أبوظبي. {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قيام الاتحاد ورئاسته",
     "markdown": "قاد زايد مفاوضات قيام دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، فأُعلن الاتحاد في 2 ديسمبر 1971 وانتُخب أول رئيس له، وجُدد انتخابه دورات متتالية حتى وفاته. وفي عهده وُجهت ثروة النفط إلى تنمية الدولة الناشئة، وامتد عطاؤه الخيري المعروف إلى ما وراء حدود الإمارات. {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي الشيخ زايد في أبوظبي في 2 نوفمبر 2004، ودُفن في صحن مسجد الشيخ زايد الكبير الجديد في أبوظبي، وخلفه ابنه الأكبر خليفة بن زايد في حكم أبوظبي ورئاسة الدولة. {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en} {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة على السجل",
     "markdown": "تستند القراءة السنية إلى صناديق المعلومات وحدها: حقل الدين في المقالة الإنجليزية «الإسلام السني» وفي العربية «مسلم سني» — وصندوقا طبعتين مختلفتين لقيمة واحدة أسرةٌ واحدة لا شهادتان؛ ولا يُسمّي أي متن مدرسة له، وتصنيف الأردية له في «اماراتی سنی مسلم» تصنيف، وقيمة الدين في ويكيداتا «الإسلام» إجمالًا فلا تؤيد الفرع. لذا يبقى مذهبه في هذا السجل «غير معروف» مع حفظ القراءة هنا. ولا علاقات مكتوبة في سجله: فوالده سلطان بن زايد وخليفته خليفة بن زايد لا سجل لهما بعد في المتحف، ولا كيان لمجموعة آل نهيان. {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en} {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ar} {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
    }
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    "id": "person/zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan",
    "lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-27"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Governor of Al Ain, then ruler of Abu Dhabi",
     "markdown": "His brother, the ruler Shakhbut, appointed him governor of the Eastern Region (Al Ain) in 1946, and he administered it for twenty years. On 6 August 1966 Shakhbut was deposed and Zayed succeeded him as ruler of Abu Dhabi. {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The federation and his presidency",
     "markdown": "Zayed led the negotiations that created the United Arab Emirates: the federation was proclaimed on 2 December 1971 and he was elected its first president, re-elected for successive terms until his death. Under him the oil wealth was directed to the development of the new state, and his well-known philanthropy reached beyond the Emirates. {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "Sheikh Zayed died at Abu Dhabi on 2 November 2004 and was buried in the courtyard of the new Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi; his eldest son Khalifa bin Zayed succeeded him in Abu Dhabi and in the presidency. {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en} {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Note on the record",
     "markdown": "The Sunni reading rests on infoboxes alone: the English article's religion field reads \"Sunni Islam\" and the Arabic article's reads \"Muslim Sunni\" — two editions' structured values for one claim are a single source family, not two attestations; no text names a school for him, the Urdu stub's \"Emirati Sunni Muslims\" filing does not attest, and Wikidata's religion value is Islam only, so the structured family does not corroborate the branch there either. His school is therefore recorded as unknown, with the reading preserved here. No relations are written in his record: his father Sultan bin Zayed and his successor Khalifa bin Zayed have no museum records yet, and no group entity exists for the Al Nahyan family. {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en} {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ar} {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
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    "id": "person/zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan",
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "العین کے گورنر، پھر ابوظبی کے حکمران",
     "markdown": "ان کے بھائی حکمران شخبوط نے 1946ء میں انھیں مشرقی علاقے (العین) کا گورنر مقرر کیا اور وہ بیس برس اس کا انتظام کرتے رہے۔ 6 اگست 1966ء کو شخبوط کو معزول کیا گیا تو زاید ابوظبی کے حکمران بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاق کا قیام اور صدارت",
     "markdown": "زاید نے متحدہ عرب امارات کے قیام کے مذاکرات کی قیادت کی: 2 دسمبر 1971ء کو وفاق کا اعلان ہوا اور وہ اس کے پہلے صدر منتخب ہوئے، اور وفات تک بار بار منتخب ہوتے رہے۔ ان کے عہد میں تیل کی دولت نئی ریاست کی ترقی پر خرچ ہوئی اور ان کی معروف خیرات امارات کی حدود سے باہر تک پہنچی۔ {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "شیخ زاید 2 نومبر 2004ء کو ابوظبی میں وفات پا گئے اور ابوظبی کی نئی شیخ زاید جامع مسجد کے صحن میں مدفون ہوئے؛ ان کے بڑے صاحبزادے خلیفہ بن زاید ابوظبی اور صدارت میں ان کے جانشین بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en} {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ریکارڈ پر نوٹ",
     "markdown": "سنی قرأت صرف صندوق ہائے معلومات پر قائم ہے: انگریزی مقالے کے مذہب خانے میں «اسلام سنی» اور عربی میں «مسلم سنی» — دو طبعات کی ڈھانچہ جاتی قدریں ایک ہی دعوے کے لیے ایک ہی خاندان ہیں، دو گواہیاں نہیں؛ کوئی متن ان کے لیے مکتب بیان نہیں کرتا، اردو مختصر کی درجہ بندی «اماراتی سنی مسلم» گواہی نہیں، اور ویکی ڈیٹا کی مذہبی قدر صرف اسلام ہے۔ لہٰذا ان کا مذہب «نامعلوم» درج ہے اور قرأت یہاں محفوظ ہے۔ ان کے ریکارڈ میں کوئی تعلق درج نہیں: ان کے والد سلطان بن زاید اور جانشین خلیفہ بن زاید کے عجائب گھر میں ابھی ریکارڈ نہیں، اور آل نہیان خاندان کے لیے کوئی گروہ اکائی موجود نہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en} {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ar} {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-zayed-bin-sultan-al-nahyan}"
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