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  "ar": "عبد العزيز الثعالبي",
  "en": "Abdelaziz Thâalbi",
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  "ar": "زعيم سياسي وديني تونسي (1876–1944)؛ درس في الزيتونة وأصدر مجلة «سبيل الرشاد»، وشارك في حركة الشباب التونسي، وأسس الحزب الدستوري سنة 1921 بعد كتابه «تونس الشهيدة» (1920)، ونُفي مرارًا وعاد إلى تونس سنة 1937 حيث توفي.",
  "en": "Tunisian political and religious leader (1876–1944). Educated at the Zaytuna, he published the journal Sabil al-Rashid, took part in the Young Tunisians, and in 1921 founded the Destour party after his book La Tunisie martyre (1920); repeatedly exiled, he returned to Tunisia in 1937 and died there.",
  "ur": "تونسی سیاسی و مذہبی رہنما (1876–1944)؛ زیتونہ میں تعلیم پائی، مجلہ «سبیل الرشاد» جاری کیا، نوجوان تونسی تحریک میں شریک رہے، اور اپنی کتاب «تونس الشہیدہ» (1920) کے بعد 1921 میں دستور پارٹی قائم کی؛ بار بار جلاوطن ہوئے، 1937 میں تونس واپس آئے اور وہیں انتقال ہوا۔"
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   "note": "Born in Tunis on 15 Sha'ban 1293 AH / 5 September 1876; his father was a notary whose family had moved from Algeria after the French occupation of 1830. The Arabic article's lead prints the Gregorian year as 1874 beside that Hijri date — inconsistent with the Hijri date itself and with its own biography section, which gives 1876; the English article and one of Wikidata's two birth values give 1876 (the other gives 1879, followed by no article).",
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   "edtf": "1944-10-01",
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    "value": "Abdelaziz Thâalbi",
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    "value": "ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Thaʿalibī",
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   "note": "Born in Tunis on 15 Sha'ban 1293 AH / 5 September 1876; his father was a notary whose family had moved from Algeria after the French occupation of 1830. The Arabic article's lead prints the Gregorian year as 1874 beside that Hijri date — inconsistent with the Hijri date itself and with its own biography section, which gives 1876; the English article and one of Wikidata's two birth values give 1876 (the other gives 1879, followed by no article).",
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    "note": "No consulted source names a legal school for him personally, and the enum holds no value for the orientation the sources do describe. The English article says he 'became learned in Salafiyyah' at the Zaytuna, spent time in Egypt with disciples of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh, attacked maraboutism and preached a rationalistic reading of the Qur'an; the Arabic article calls him a political and religious leader and a caller to reform and renewal. Salafiyyah as used here is a reform movement, not a madhhab, and movement membership is not a school attestation; the Arabic and French articles name no school, and Wikidata carries no religion value for him.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "عبد العزيز الثعالبي (1876–1944) زعيم سياسي وديني تونسي، من القليلين الذين زاوجوا في عملهم بين السياسي والديني؛ أسس الحزب الدستوري، وكتب «تونس الشهيدة»، وناضل ضد الحماية الفرنسية حتى وفاته.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}"
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    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في مدينة تونس في 15 شعبان 1293هـ / 5 سبتمبر 1876 (يُطبع في مطلع المقالة العربية 1874 خطأً)، في أسرة من أصل جزائري انتقلت إلى تونس بعد الاحتلال الفرنسي للجزائر سنة 1830، وكان والده كاتب عدل.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} التحق بجامع الزيتونة وتخرج حاملًا شهادة التطويع، وتابع دراساته في المدرسة الخلدونية.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar} تقول المقالة الإنجليزية إنه تعلّم السلفية في الزيتونة، وأنه بعد تخرجه سنة 1895 بدأ إصدار مجلة دينية هي «سبيل الرشاد».{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "البدايات والنفي الأول",
     "markdown": "عطّلت السلطات الفرنسية «سبيل الرشاد» سنة 1897، فغادر الثعالبي تونس متنقلًا في ليبيا ومصر والهند، وقضى في مصر سنتين على الأقل مقتربًا من تلاميذ جمال الدين الأفغاني ومحمد عبده.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} عاد إلى تونس سنة 1901 وبدأ ينتقد الطرقية علنًا ويدعو إلى قراءة عقلانية للقرآن، فحُوكم سنة 1904 بتهمة سبّ عبد القادر الجيلاني ووصف القرآن بأنه كتاب عتيق، وأُدين وحُكم عليه بالسجن شهرين.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} أصدر سنة 1905 كتاب «الروح الحرة للقرآن» (L'esprit libéral du Coran) مع محاميه سيزار بن عطار والهادي السباعي.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} ارتبط بحركة الشباب التونسي وصار محرر جريدتها العربية، حتى نُفي من تونس سنة 1912 إثر مقاطعة الترام.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحزب الدستوري",
     "markdown": "بعد الحرب العالمية الأولى عاد إلى تونس، وكتب سنة 1920 كتابه «تونس الشهيدة» مطالبًا بإعادة دستور 1861 ومجلس منتخب وقضاء مستقل وتعليم أفضل وحماية الحقوق المدنية، فاعتُقل وأُعيد إلى تونس.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} قاد سنة 1921 تأسيس الحزب الدستوري على سياسات الكتاب.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} غادر البلاد سنة 1923 بعد اشتداد الضغط الفرنسي، وقضى سنوات المنفى متنقلًا بين مصر والعراق والهند وفلسطين، ثم عاد إلى تونس سنة 1937 فوجد الحزب الدستوري قد تراجع أمام الحزب الدستوري الجديد.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة",
     "markdown": "توفي في تونس في 1 أكتوبر 1944.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}{cite:wikidata-abdelaziz-thaalbi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- ويكيبيديا العربية، «عبد العزيز الثعالبي».{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}\n- ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، \"Abdelaziz Thâalbi\".{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}\n- ويكيبيديا الفرنسية، \"Abdelaziz Thâalbi\".{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-fr}\n- ويكيبيديا الأردية، «عبد العزیز ثعالبی».{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ur}\n- ويكيداتا، Q646778.{cite:wikidata-abdelaziz-thaalbi}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Abdelaziz Thâalbi (1876–1944) was a Tunisian political and religious leader, one of the few who combined the political and the religious in his work; he founded the Destour party, wrote La Tunisie martyre, and campaigned against the French protectorate until his death.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born in Tunis on 15 Sha'ban 1293 AH / 5 September 1876 (the Arabic article's lead misprints 1874) into a family of Algerian origin that had moved to Tunis after the French occupation of Algeria in 1830; his father was a notary.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} He entered the Zaytuna, graduated with the tatwi' certificate, and continued his studies at the Khaldounia.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar} The English article says he became learned in Salafiyyah at the Zaytuna and that after graduating in 1895 he began publishing a religious journal, Sabil al-Rashid (\"the proper path\").{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Beginnings and first exile",
     "markdown": "The French suspended Sabil al-Rashid in 1897, and Thâalbi left Tunisia, travelling in Libya, Egypt and India and spending at least two years in Egypt moving with disciples of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} Returning in 1901, he openly criticised maraboutism and advocated a rationalistic reading of the Qur'an; in 1904 he was tried for cursing Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani and calling the Qur'an an obsolete book, and was convicted and sentenced to two months in prison.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} In 1905 he published L'esprit libéral du Coran (\"the liberal spirit of the Quran\") with his defence lawyer César Benattar and el-Hadi Sebai.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} He joined the Young Tunisians and became editor of their Arabic newspaper, until he was expelled from Tunisia in 1912 following the tram boycott.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Destour",
     "markdown": "After the First World War he returned to Tunisia and in 1920 wrote La Tunisie martyre (\"the martyr Tunisia\"), demanding restoration of the 1861 constitution, an elected assembly, an independent judiciary, improved education and better protection of civil rights; he was arrested and returned to Tunisia.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} In 1921 he led the foundation of the Destour party on the book's policies.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} He left the country in 1923 under growing French pressure, spent his exile years moving between Egypt, Iraq, India and Palestine, and returned to Tunisia in 1937 to find the Destour eclipsed by the Neo Destour.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died in Tunis on 1 October 1944.{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}{cite:wikidata-abdelaziz-thaalbi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- Arabic Wikipedia, \"Abdelaziz Thâalbi\".{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}\n- English Wikipedia, \"Abdelaziz Thâalbi\".{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}\n- French Wikipedia, \"Abdelaziz Thâalbi\".{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-fr}\n- Urdu Wikipedia, \"Abdelaziz Thâalbi\".{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ur}\n- Wikidata, Q646778.{cite:wikidata-abdelaziz-thaalbi}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عبد العزیز ثعالبی (1876–1944) تونسی سیاسی و مذہبی رہنما تھے؛ انھوں نے دستور پارٹی قائم کی، «تونس الشہیدہ» لکھی، اور فرانسیسی قبضے کے خلاف جدوجہد کی۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ 15 شعبان 1293ھ / 5 ستمبر 1876ء کو تونس میں الجزائری نژاد خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} جامع زیتونہ سے فارغ ہوئے اور بعد میں خلدونیہ میں تعلیم جاری رکھی۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar} انگریزی مضمون کے مطابق زیتونہ میں انھوں نے سلفیہ کی تعلیم حاصل کی اور 1895 کے بعد مذہبی مجلہ «سبیل الرشاد» جاری کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جدوجہد",
     "markdown": "1897 میں فرانسیسیوں نے مجلہ بند کر دیا تو وہ لیبیا، مصر اور ہندوستان گھومے؛ 1904 میں مقدمے کے بعد دو ماہ قید رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} نوجوان تونسی تحریک سے جڑے اور 1912 میں جلاوطن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} 1920 میں ان کی کتاب «تونس الشہیدہ» آئی اور 1921 میں انھوں نے دستور پارٹی کی قیادت میں بنیاد رکھی۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en} 1937 میں تونس واپس آئے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "ان کا انتقال یکم اکتوبر 1944 کو تونس میں ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}{cite:wikidata-abdelaziz-thaalbi}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- عربی ویکیپیڈیا، «عبد العزیز الثعالبی»۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ar}\n- انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا، \"Abdelaziz Thâalbi\"۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-en}\n- فرانسیسی ویکیپیڈیا، \"Abdelaziz Thâalbi\"۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-fr}\n- اردو ویکیپیڈیا، «عبد العزیز ثعالبی»۔{cite:wikipedia-abdelaziz-thaalbi-ur}\n- ویکی ڈیٹا، Q646778۔{cite:wikidata-abdelaziz-thaalbi}"
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