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  "ar": "ضياء الدين سردار",
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  "ar": "باحث وكاتب وناقد ثقافي بريطاني من أصل باكستاني، وُلد سنة 1951 في ديپالپور بالبنجاب ونشأ وتعلّم في بريطانيا. درس الفيزياء ثم علم المعلومات في جامعة سيتي بلندن، وعمل في جامعة الملك عبد العزيز بجدة وفي مجلتي نيتشر ونيو ساينتست، وألّف وحرّر أكثر من ستين كتابًا في الفكر المسلم ودراسات المستقبل، وأطلق مجلة «كريتيكال مسلم» سنة 2012.",
  "en": "British-Pakistani scholar, writer and cultural critic, born in Dipalpur, Punjab in 1951 and educated and brought up in Britain. He read physics and then information science at City University, London, worked at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah and for Nature and New Scientist, and has written and edited more than sixty books on Muslim thought and futures studies; in 2012 he launched the quarterly Critical Muslim.",
  "ur": "برطانوی پاکستانی مصنف، دانشور اور ثقافتی نقاد، 1951 میں پنجاب کے دیپالپور میں پیدا ہوئے اور برطانیہ میں پرورش و تعلیم پائی۔ انھوں نے سٹی یونیورسٹی لندن میں طبیعیات اور اطلاعاتی سائنس پڑھی، جدہ اور نیچر و نیو سائنٹسٹ میں کام کیا، اور مسلم فکر و مستقبل بینی پر ساٹھ سے زائد کتابیں لکھیں و مرتب کیں؛ 2012 میں انھوں نے «کرٹیکل مسلم» جاری کیا۔"
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   "note": "Born on 31 October 1951 in Dipalpur, Punjab, Pakistan; the English article and Wikidata agree. The queue brief gave his birth year as 1948 — that is wrong; see the writer's brief corrections. No place entity for Dipalpur exists in data/place/, so no born_in relation is written. The Hijri year (1371) is derived by tabular conversion.",
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   "note": "Born on 31 October 1951 in Dipalpur, Punjab, Pakistan; the English article and Wikidata agree. The queue brief gave his birth year as 1948 — that is wrong; see the writer's brief corrections. No place entity for Dipalpur exists in data/place/, so no born_in relation is written. The Hijri year (1371) is derived by tabular conversion.",
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    "note": "NOT RECORDED AS DOCUMENTED — no fetched source names a school for him. His specialism in Muslim thought and the future of Islam, his five years at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, his founding editorship of Inquiry and Critical Muslim, and Prospect naming him among Britain's top public intellectuals are a field, posts and recognition, not attestations that he himself belongs to a specific school or path. Wikidata gives no school. Under the two-source rule and the doubt rule the faith is left unknown.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Ziauddin Sardar' and Wikidata Q1921138 (QID confirmed via the English Wikipedia pageprops API on 25 October 2026), read on 25 October 2026. No earlier record for him existed in data/person/ under any spelling checked; this is a new build, not an enrichment.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ضياء الدين سردار (وُلد في 31 أكتوبر 1951) باحث وكاتب وناقد ثقافي بريطاني من أصل باكستاني متخصص في الفكر المسلم. عدّته مجلة بروسبكت بين أبرز مئة مثقف عام في بريطانيا، ووصفته الإندبندنت بأنه «موسوعي بريطانيا المسلم». {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en} {cite:wikidata-ziauddin-sardar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في ديپالپور بالبنجاب في باكستان، وتعلّم ونشأ في بريطانيا. درس الفيزياء ثم علم المعلومات في جامعة سيتي بلندن. {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "عمل خمس سنوات في جامعة الملك عبد العزيز بجدة حيث صار مرجعًا في شؤون الحج، ثم عاد مراسلًا لمجلتي نيتشر ونيو ساينتست، والتحق بتلفزيون لندن ويك إند سنة 1982، وشارك في تأسيس مجلة «إنكوايري». حرّر مجلة «فيوتشرز» منذ 1999، وأطلق «كريتيكال مسلم» سنة 2012، وألّف وحرّر أكثر من ستين كتابًا. {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، وهي مسجلة في `data/source/`."
    }
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   "updated": "2026-10-25"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ziauddin Sardar (born 31 October 1951) is a British-Pakistani scholar, writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought. Prospect magazine named him one of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals, and The Independent called him 'Britain's own Muslim polymath'. {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en} {cite:wikidata-ziauddin-sardar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born in Dipalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, and was educated and brought up in Britain. He read physics and then information science at City University, London. {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "He spent five years at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, where he became an authority on the Hajj, then returned to work as Middle East correspondent of Nature and New Scientist, joined London Weekend Television in 1982, and was among the founders of Inquiry, a magazine of Muslim ideas and policy. He edited the journal Futures from 1999, launched the quarterly Critical Muslim in 2012, established the Center for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies in 2014, and was appointed director of the International Institute of Futures Studies at the International Islamic University Malaysia in 2025. He has written and edited more than sixty books. {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en}"
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    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ضیاء الدین سردار (پیدائش: 31 اکتوبر 1951ء) برطانوی پاکستانی مصنف، دانشور اور ثقافتی نقاد ہیں جو مسلم فکر کے ماہر ہیں۔ پروسپیکٹ نے انھیں برطانیہ کے سو نمایاں عوامی دانشوروں میں شمار کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en} {cite:wikidata-ziauddin-sardar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی و تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ پنجاب کے دیپالپور میں پیدا ہوئے اور برطانیہ میں پرورش و تعلیم پائی۔ انھوں نے سٹی یونیورسٹی لندن میں طبیعیات اور پھر اطلاعاتی سائنس پڑھی۔ {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کارنامے",
     "markdown": "انھوں نے جدہ کی کنگ عبد العزیز یونیورسٹی میں پانچ برس کام کیا، نیچر و نیو سائنٹسٹ کے نمائندے رہے، «انکوائری» کے بانیوں میں شامل ہوئے، «فیوچرز» کے مدیر رہے، اور 2012ء میں «کرٹیکل مسلم» جاری کیا۔ انھوں نے ساٹھ سے زائد کتابیں لکھیں و مرتب کیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-sardar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ دیے گئے متعین ماخذ، `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔"
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