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 "label": {
  "ar": "مولوي عبد الحق",
  "en": "Abdul Haq",
  "ur": "مولوی عبد الحق"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "لغوي وعالم وناقد أدبي أردي (1870–1961)، يُلقب بـ«أبو الأردية» (بابائے اردو). شغل أمانة «أنجمن ترقي اردو» عقودا، وألّف قاموسا معياريا إنجليزيا–أرديا، وكان من أبرز المطالبين بجعل الأردية اللغة الوطنية لباكستان.",
  "en": "Urdu linguist, scholar and literary critic (1870–1961), known as Baba-e-Urdu ('Father of Urdu'). He was for decades secretary of the Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu, compiled a standard English–Urdu dictionary, and campaigned for Urdu to be made the national language of Pakistan.",
  "ur": "اردو کے ماہر لسانیات، عالم اور ادبی نقاد (1870ء–1961ء)، جو «بابائے اردو» کے لقب سے مشہور ہیں۔ وہ برسوں انجمن ترقی اردو کے سیکرٹری رہے، ایک معیاری انگریزی–اردو لغت مرتب کی اور اردو کو پاکستان کی قومی زبان بنانے کے بڑے داعی تھے۔"
 },
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  "south-asia"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1870.2991163405136,
  "latest": 1961.6247424655905
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1870-04-20",
   "hijri": "1287",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article (citing Pakistan Post and Dawn), the Urdu article and the Arabic stub agree on 20 April 1870; the Urdu article places the birth at Sarawan near Hapur, the English at Hapur. Wikidata carries the same day-precision date and also a redundant year-only value of 1869, which no article follows. The Hijri year (1287) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Hapur or Sarawan, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1961-08-16",
   "hijri": "1381",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English, Urdu and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree: died 16 August 1961 at Karachi, of cancer, and he is buried on the Abdul Haq campus of the Federal Urdu University there. The Hijri year (1381) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Karachi, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "مولوی عبد الحق",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Abdul Haq",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "بابائے اردو",
    "kind": "laqab"
   },
   {
    "value": "Baba-e-Urdu",
    "kind": "laqab"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "writer",
   "teacher"
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1870-04-20",
   "hijri": "1287",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article (citing Pakistan Post and Dawn), the Urdu article and the Arabic stub agree on 20 April 1870; the Urdu article places the birth at Sarawan near Hapur, the English at Hapur. Wikidata carries the same day-precision date and also a redundant year-only value of 1869, which no article follows. The Hijri year (1287) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Hapur or Sarawan, so no born_in edge is written.",
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1961-08-16",
   "hijri": "1381",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English, Urdu and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree: died 16 August 1961 at Karachi, of cancer, and he is buried on the Abdul Haq campus of the Federal Urdu University there. The Hijri year (1381) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Karachi, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written.",
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source names a school. The English text makes no statement of his religion at all; the Urdu text records the family history — his ancestors were Hindu Kayasths of Hapur who converted to Islam in the Mughal era — which is family background, and describes his life's work for Urdu; the Arabic stub names no religion; Wikidata gives a single structured value, Islam only. His leadership of the Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu and of the campaign for Urdu in Pakistan is activity and affiliation, not a school attestation. Under the lane's two-source rule nothing more can be recorded.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Abdul Haq (Urdu scholar)' (revision 1377534830), Urdu Wikipedia 'مولوی عبد الحق' (revision 9370473), Arabic Wikipedia 'مولوي عبد الحق' (revision 75454459) and Wikidata item Q2993002 (item revision 2561055100, confirmed by two agreeing reads), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn. Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (abdul-haq, haq), by Arabic label, by biography and by the QID route across data/person/ — the museum's abdul-haq-baloch and abdul-haq-nafay-kakakhail are different men (a Baloch scholar and a Kakakhail scholar), identified by biography; neither carries the exact Arabic label مولوي عبد الحق, so no homonym entry is needed. No founder_of or member_of edge is written for the Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu: no group entity for it exists; his secretaryship from 1912 is stated in the prose instead.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتكوين",
     "markdown": "وُلد عبد الحق في سراوان قرب مدينة هابور في أتر برديش، وتروي المقالة الأردية أن أسلافه كانوا من طائفة كائست الهندوسية في هابور وأسلموا في العهد المغولي. تعلم في عليكرة وتأثر بسر سيد أحمد خان، ودخل خدمة دولة حيدر آباد وترقى إلى كبير مفتشي المدارس.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ur}{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أنجمن ترقي اردو",
     "markdown": "انتُخب عبد الحق سنة 1912 أمينا لأنجمن ترقي اردو، فأصدر مجلات «أردو» و«سائنس» و«هماري زبان»، وألّف قواميس إنجليزية أردية وقواعد للغة الأردية وكتابها القياسي. وبعد تقاعده من جامعة عثمانية سنة 1930 أقام في دلهي، ثم هاجر سنة 1948 إلى باكستان حيث واصل عمل الأنجمن والكلية الأردية في كراتشي.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة والإرث",
     "markdown": "طالب عبد الحق بجعل الأردية اللغة الوطنية الوحيدة لباكستان. وتوفي بسرطان المثانة في كراتشي في 16 أغسطس 1961 ودُفن في حرم الكلية الأردية الاتحادية، وأصدر مكتب بريد باكستان طابعا تذكاريا باسمه سنة 2004.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}{cite:wikidata-abdul-haq}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ur}\n- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-abdul-haq}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and formation",
     "markdown": "Abdul Haq was born at Sarawan near Hapur in Uttar Pradesh; the Urdu article records that his ancestors were Hindu Kayasths of Hapur who converted to Islam in the Mughal era. He was educated at Aligarh under the influence of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, entered the service of Hyderabad State and rose to chief inspector of schools.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ur}{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu",
     "markdown": "Elected secretary of the Anjuman in 1912, Abdul Haq edited the journals Urdu, Science and Hamari Zaban and produced English–Urdu dictionaries, Urdu grammars and a standard Urdu textbook. After retiring from Osmania University in 1930 he lived at Delhi, then migrated to Pakistan in 1948 and continued the Anjuman's work and the Urdu College at Karachi.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and legacy",
     "markdown": "Abdul Haq demanded that Urdu be Pakistan's sole national language. He died of bladder cancer at Karachi on 16 August 1961 and was buried in the grounds of the Federal Urdu College; Pakistan Post issued a commemorative stamp in his honour in 2004.{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}{cite:wikidata-abdul-haq}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ur}\n- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-abdul-haq}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "عبد الحق ہابور کے قریب سراون میں پیدا ہوئے؛ اردو مضمون کے مطابق ان کے آباؤ اجداد ہابور کے ہندو کائست تھے جو مغلیہ دور میں مسلمان ہوئے۔ انہوں نے علی گڑھ میں تعلیم پائی، سر سید احمد خان سے متاثر ہوئے، ریاست حیدرآباد کی ملازمت اختیار کی اور مہتمم تعلیمات کے عہدے تک پہنچے۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ur}{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "انجمن ترقی اردو",
     "markdown": "عبد الحق ۱۹۱۲ء میں انجمن کے سیکریٹری منتخب ہوئے؛ انہوں نے رسائل «اردو»، «سائنس» اور «ہماری زبان» جاری کیے اور انگریزی اردو لغات، اردو قواعد اور معیاری درسی کتاب تصنیف کیں۔ عثمانیہ یونیورسٹی سے ۱۹۳۰ء میں سبکدوش ہو کر دہلی رہے، پھر ۱۹۴۸ء میں پاکستان ہجرت کر کے کراچی میں انجمن اور اردو کالج کا کام جاری رکھا۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات اور ورثہ",
     "markdown": "عبد الحق نے اردو کو پاکستان کی واحد قومی زبان بنانے کا مطالبہ کیا۔ وہ مثانے کے سرطان سے ۱۶ اگست ۱۹۶۱ء کو کراچی میں وفات پا گئے اور وفاقی اردو کالج کے احاطے میں دفن ہوئے؛ محکمۂ ڈاک نے ۲۰۰۴ء میں ان کے اعزاز میں یادگاری ٹکٹ جاری کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}{cite:wikidata-abdul-haq}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ur}\n- {cite:wikipedia-abdul-haq-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-abdul-haq}"
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