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  "ar": "أحمد مصطفى بصري",
  "en": "Ahmad Mustofa Bisri",
  "ur": "احمد مصطفیٰ بصری"
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  "ar": "عالم وشاعر إندونيسي ⁦(المولود 1944 في رمبانغ بجاوة الوسطى)⁩، المعروف بغوس موس؛ رئيس معهد روضة الطالبين في رمبانغ، والرئيس العام لنهضة العلماء 2014–2015 بعد أن كان رئيس شورياها، وأحد أبرز شعراء إندونيسيا المعاصرين وكتّابها.",
  "en": "An Indonesian scholar and poet (born 1944 in Rembang, Central Java), known as Gus Mus; head of the Raudlatut Thalibin pesantren in Rembang, Rais Aam (supreme leader) of Nahdlatul Ulama in 2014–2015 after serving as its Rais Syuriah, and one of Indonesia's best-known contemporary poets and essayists.",
  "ur": "احمد مصطفیٰ بصری ⁦(پیدائش 1944ء، رمبانگ، وسطی جاوا)⁩، جو گُس مُس کے نام سے مشہور ہیں، انڈونیشیائی عالم اور شاعر ہیں؛ رمبانگ کے مدرسہ روضۃ الطالبین کے سربراہ، 2014–2015ء میں نہضۃ العلماء کے رئیس عام، اور انڈونیشیا کے معروف ترین عصری شعرا اور مضمون نگاروں میں سے ایک۔"
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  "southeast-asia"
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  "earliest": 1944.6059125101815,
  "latest": 1944.608650417157
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1944-08-10",
   "hijri": "1363",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Born 10 August 1944; the date is given in the English article's lead and the Indonesian article, which also places the birth in Rembang, Central Java, and names his parents, K.H. Bisri Mustofa and Nyai Marafah Cholil. The Hijri year 1363 is derived from the Gregorian date. No place record for Rembang exists in the museum, so the birth place is carried in this note rather than as an edge.",
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    "value": "Ahmad Mustofa Bisri"
   },
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    "value": "Gus Mus"
   }
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  "gender": "male",
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   "edtf": "1944-08-10",
   "hijri": "1363",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born 10 August 1944; the date is given in the English article's lead and the Indonesian article, which also places the birth in Rembang, Central Java, and names his parents, K.H. Bisri Mustofa and Nyai Marafah Cholil. The Hijri year 1363 is derived from the Gregorian date. No place record for Rembang exists in the museum, so the birth place is carried in this note rather than as an edge.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No text consulted names a legal school or sect value for Bisri himself. His life is spent inside Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) — board member, Rais Syuriah from 1994 and Rais Aam in 2014–2015 — and he studied at Al-Azhar in Cairo; organisational office and schooling are affiliation, not a personal attestation, and NU's own traditionalist (Aswaja) orientation is the organisation's, not a madhhab named for him. One sympathetic text, the Bayt ar-Rahmah organisation he co-founded, calls him 'a true mufti [a master of Sunni Muslim scholarship and jurisprudence]' — a description of his scholarship by an affiliated body, a single text, and not an attestation of a school. Under the doubt rule the value stays unknown with the readings preserved here.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "The 2026-11-04 harvest entry (YouTube 'GusMus Channel', about 161 thousand subscribers per the Islamic Communication Journal, June 2024), researched against the English and Indonesian Wikipedia articles read in full on 4 November 2026.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Wonder)",
   "run": "modern-figures-wave-190"
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أحمد مصطفى بصري، المعروف في إندونيسيا كلها بغوس موس، عالم وشاعر ورسّام إندونيسي، وُلد في رمبانغ بجاوة الوسطى في 10 أغسطس 1944. يرأس معهد روضة الطالبين ⁦(المدرسة الداخلية الإسلامية)⁩ في رمبانغ، وهو من كبار رجال نهضة العلماء، أكبر منظمة إسلامية في العالم: تولّى رئاسة شورياها منذ 1994، ثم رئاستها العامة ⁦(رئيس عام)⁩ من مارس 2014 إلى أغسطس 2015. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد بصري في أسرة من العلماء: فأبوه الشيخ بصري مصطفى مؤسس معهد روضة الطالبين، وأمه نياي مارفة خليل. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} بعد المدرسة الابتدائية في رمبانغ درس في اثنين من أشهر معاهد جاوة: ليربويو في كديري على الشيخ مرزوقي دحلان والشيخ محروس علي، والمنوّر في كرابياك بيوجياكارتا على الشيخ علي مقصوم والشيخ عبد القادر، ثم في جامعة الأزهر بالقاهرة، حيث تضع المقالة الإندونيسية دراسته بين سنتي 1964 و1970. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المعهد ونهضة العلماء",
     "markdown": "عند عودته إلى رمبانغ تولّى قيادة معهد أبيه في ليتيه برمبانغ، وما زال يرأسه. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} بدأت مسيرته في نهضة العلماء من مجلسها في رمبانغ سنة 1970، وصار من مستشاري نهضة العلماء في جاوة الوسطى سنة 1977، وانتُخب رئيسًا لشورياها على المستوى الوطني في مؤتمر تشيباناس سنة 1994. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} وعندما توفي الشيخ سهل محفوظ في يناير 2014 خلفه نائبُه بصري رئيسًا عامًا، فخدم من 3 مارس 2014 حتى 6 أغسطس 2015. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} تزوّج سيتي فاطمة سنة 1971، وتوفيت سنة 2016، ولهما سبعة أبناء. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الشعر والتكريم",
     "markdown": "إلى جانب علمه، يُعدّ بصري من أحبّ شعراء إندونيسيا إلى قرّائها: من دواوينه «أوهوي» و«تدارس» و«نغري داغينغ» و«غاندرونغ»، ومن كتبه النثرية «موسوعة الإجماع» التي كتبها مع الشيخ سهل محفوظ، و«فقه غوس موس اليومي»، و«مزاح النبي وضحك الصوفي»، وهو يمارس الرسم أيضًا. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} نال جائزة ماستيرا للأدب الآسيوي سنة 2005، والدكتوراه الفخرية في الثقافة الإسلامية من جامعة سونان كاليجاغا الإسلامية الحكومية بيوجياكارتا سنة 2009، ووسام «بينتانغ بودايا فاراما دارما» الثقافي من الرئيس جوكو ويدودو سنة 2015، وصار سنة 2017 أول رجل دين ينال جائزة ياب ثيام هين لحقوق الإنسان. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} موقعه الرسمي gusmus.net، وبلغ عدد مشتركي قناته «غوس موس» على يوتيوب نحو 161 ألف مشترك في يونيو 2024 بحسب مجلة التواصل الإسلامي، وهو رقم منصّة مؤرّخ لا واقعة تحقق منها المتحف. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، «Mustofa Bisri»، كما قُرئت في 4 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en}\n- ويكيبيديا الإندونيسية، «Mustofa Bisri»، كما قُرئت في 4 نوفمبر 2026. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ahmad Mustofa Bisri, known across Indonesia as Gus Mus, is an Indonesian scholar, poet and painter, born in Rembang, Central Java, on 10 August 1944. He heads the Raudlatut Thalibin pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Rembang and is a senior figure of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world's largest Muslim organisation: he served as its Rais Syuriah from 1994 and as Rais Aam, its supreme leader, from March 2014 to August 2015. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "Bisri was born into a family of religious scholars: his father, K.H. Bisri Mustofa, founded the Raudlatut Thalibin pesantren, and his mother was Nyai Marafah Cholil. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} After primary school in Rembang he studied at two of Java's best-known pesantren — Lirboyo in Kediri, under K.H. Marzuqi Dahlan and K.H. Mahrus Aly, and Al-Munawwir at Krapyak, Yogyakarta, under K.H. Ali Maksum and K.H. Abdul Qadir — and then at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where the Indonesian article places his studies in the years 1964–1970. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Pesantren and Nahdlatul Ulama",
     "markdown": "On returning to Rembang he took up the leadership of his father's pesantren at Leteh, Rembang, which he still heads. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} His NU career began on its Rembang board in 1970; he became an adviser (Mustasyar) of NU in Central Java in 1977 and was elected Rais Syuriah of the national board at the 1994 congress at Cipanas. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} When K.H. Sahal Mahfudz died in January 2014, Bisri, his deputy, succeeded him as Rais Aam, serving from 3 March 2014 until 6 August 2015. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} He married Siti Fatma in 1971; she died in 2016, and they had seven children. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Poetry and honours",
     "markdown": "Alongside his scholarship, Bisri is one of Indonesia's most-loved poets: his collections include Ohoi, Tadarus, Negeri Daging and Gandrung, and his prose works include the Ensiklopedi Ijmak, written with K.H. Sahal Mahfudz, Fikih Keseharian Gus Mus (Everyday Jurisprudence) and Canda Nabi & Tawa Sufi; he also paints. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} He received the Mastera Asian Literature Award in 2005, an honorary doctorate in Islamic culture from UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, in 2009, and the Bintang Budaya Parama Dharma cultural medal from President Joko Widodo in 2015; in 2017 he became the first religious leader to receive the Yap Thiam Hien human-rights award. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} His official website is gusmus.net, and his GusMus Channel on YouTube counted about 161 thousand subscribers in June 2024, as reported by the Islamic Communication Journal — a dated platform figure, not a museum-verified fact. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- English Wikipedia, \"Mustofa Bisri\", as read on 4 November 2026. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en}\n- Indonesian Wikipedia, \"Mustofa Bisri\", as read on 4 November 2026. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ahmad Mustofa Bisri, known across Indonesia as Gus Mus, is an Indonesian scholar, poet and painter, born in Rembang, Central Java, on 10 August 1944. He heads the Raudlatut Thalibin pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Rembang and is a senior figure of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world's largest Muslim organisation: he served as its Rais Syuriah from 1994 and as Rais Aam, its supreme leader, from March 2014 to August 2015. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
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     "markdown": "Bisri was born into a family of religious scholars: his father, K.H. Bisri Mustofa, founded the Raudlatut Thalibin pesantren, and his mother was Nyai Marafah Cholil. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} After primary school in Rembang he studied at two of Java's best-known pesantren — Lirboyo in Kediri, under K.H. Marzuqi Dahlan and K.H. Mahrus Aly, and Al-Munawwir at Krapyak, Yogyakarta, under K.H. Ali Maksum and K.H. Abdul Qadir — and then at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where the Indonesian article places his studies in the years 1964–1970. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
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     "heading": "Pesantren and Nahdlatul Ulama",
     "markdown": "On returning to Rembang he took up the leadership of his father's pesantren at Leteh, Rembang, which he still heads. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} His NU career began on its Rembang board in 1970; he became an adviser (Mustasyar) of NU in Central Java in 1977 and was elected Rais Syuriah of the national board at the 1994 congress at Cipanas. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} When K.H. Sahal Mahfudz died in January 2014, Bisri, his deputy, succeeded him as Rais Aam, serving from 3 March 2014 until 6 August 2015. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} He married Siti Fatma in 1971; she died in 2016, and they had seven children. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
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    {
     "heading": "Poetry and honours",
     "markdown": "Alongside his scholarship, Bisri is one of Indonesia's most-loved poets: his collections include Ohoi, Tadarus, Negeri Daging and Gandrung, and his prose works include the Ensiklopedi Ijmak, written with K.H. Sahal Mahfudz, Fikih Keseharian Gus Mus (Everyday Jurisprudence) and Canda Nabi & Tawa Sufi; he also paints. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en} {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} He received the Mastera Asian Literature Award in 2005, an honorary doctorate in Islamic culture from UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, in 2009, and the Bintang Budaya Parama Dharma cultural medal from President Joko Widodo in 2015; in 2017 he became the first religious leader to receive the Yap Thiam Hien human-rights award. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id} His official website is gusmus.net, and his GusMus Channel on YouTube counted about 161 thousand subscribers in June 2024, as reported by the Islamic Communication Journal — a dated platform figure, not a museum-verified fact. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en}"
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     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- English Wikipedia, \"Mustofa Bisri\", as read on 4 November 2026. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-en}\n- Indonesian Wikipedia, \"Mustofa Bisri\", as read on 4 November 2026. {cite:wikipedia-mustofa-bisri-id}"
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