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  "ar": "أحمد الريسوني",
  "en": "Ahmed Raissouni",
  "ur": "احمد رئیسونی"
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  "ar": "عالم وفقيه مغربي، وُلد سنة 1953 بقرية أولاد سلطان قرب القصر الكبير. درس الشريعة في جامعة القرويين ثم أصول الفقه ومقاصد الشريعة في جامعة محمد الخامس، ودرّس فيهما، وأسس رابطة المستقبل الإسلامي ثم ترأس حركة التوحيد والإصلاح (1996–2003)، وكان عضوًا مؤسسًا للاتحاد العالمي لعلماء المسلمين فترأسه من 2018 حتى استقالته سنة 2022 إثر تصريحاته عن وجود موريتانيا. عُرف بكتابه «نظرية المقاصد عند الإمام الشاطبي».",
  "en": "Moroccan Muslim scholar and jurist, born in 1953 in the village of Ouled Soltane near Ksar el-Kebir. He studied Sharia at the University of al-Qarawiyyin and then usul al-fiqh and the higher objectives of the law at Mohammed V University, where he taught; he founded the Islamic Future Association and headed the Movement of Unity and Reform (1996–2003), and was a founding member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, presiding over it from 2018 until his resignation in 2022 after his remarks on Mauritania's existence. He is known for his book on Imam al-Shatibi's theory of the higher objectives of Islamic law.",
  "ur": "مراکشی مسلمان عالم اور فقیہ، 1953ء میں القصر الکبیر کے قریب گاؤں اولاد سلطان میں پیدا ہوئے۔ انھوں نے جامعہ قرویین میں شریعت اور جامعہ محمد خامس میں اصولِ فقہ اور مقاصدِ شریعت کی تعلیم حاصل کی اور وہیں تدریس کی؛ رابطۂ مستقبلِ اسلامی کی بنیاد رکھی اور حرکتِ توحید و اصلاح کی قیادت کی (1996ء–2003ء)، اور عالمی اتحاد برائے مسلم علما کے بانی رکن رہے اور 2018ء سے 2022ء میں موریتانیہ کے وجود پر اپنے بیانات کے بعد استعفے تک اس کے صدر رہے۔ وہ امام شاطبی کے نظریۂ مقاصد پر اپنی کتاب کے لیے معروف ہیں۔"
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   "note": "Born in 1953 in the village of Ouled Soltane near Ksar el-Kebir: the English article's text gives the village, its infobox gives Ksar el-Kebir, and Wikidata's place of birth is Awlad Sultan, the same village. The Hijri year is a conversion of the Gregorian year (1953 falls mostly in 1372 AH). Neither the village nor Ksar el-Kebir has a place entity in the museum yet, so no born_in relation is written.",
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    "value": "أحمد بن عبد السلام بن محمد الريسوني",
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    "value": "Ahmed ben Abdelsalam ben Mohamed Raissouni",
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    "value": "Ahmed Raïssouni",
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   "note": "Born in 1953 in the village of Ouled Soltane near Ksar el-Kebir: the English article's text gives the village, its infobox gives Ksar el-Kebir, and Wikidata's place of birth is Awlad Sultan, the same village. The Hijri year is a conversion of the Gregorian year (1953 falls mostly in 1372 AH). Neither the village nor Ksar el-Kebir has a place entity in the museum yet, so no born_in relation is written.",
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    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source read names a school for him, and only one text attests even a general affiliation. The French article — a stub flagged as needing sources — describes him as interpreting the texts liberally 'while remaining faithful to Sunni orthodoxy'; the English and Arabic articles make no statement of affiliation in their text and file him in categories for Sunni Muslim scholars, which are category filings, not attestations; the Urdu article is an unreviewed translation of the English and carries the same filings; Wikidata gives Islam only. One text attestation plus category filings is not two independent sources, so the value is recorded unknown; a second independent text naming Sunni would settle sunni/documented, and no source at all names a madhhab for him.",
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   "source": "The English Wikipedia article 'Ahmed Raissouni' at revision 1378656100, the Arabic article «أحمد الريسوني (فقيه)» at revision 76667524 (reached through the redirect from «أحمد الريسوني»), the French article 'Ahmed Raïssouni' at revision 235539797 and the Urdu article «احمد رئیسونی» at revision 9682637, each fetched by revision id through the MediaWiki API with the returned revid asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q612292 (item revision 2521927704), all read on 26 October 2026. Identity is grounded on the full name Ahmed ben Abdelsalam ben Mohamed Raissouni, the birth in 1953 near Ksar el-Kebir and the presidency of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, matching the queue line 'Sheikh Ahmed Raissouni — 1953–Living'. Existence was checked before writing by filename fragments (raissouni, raysuni, raissuni), by Arabic label and by QID across data/person/: no record existed for him. One near-collision was found and resolved by biography: data/person/ahmad-al-raysuni.yaml is Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni (Q401625), the Rif sharif who died in 1925, a different man who shares the same Arabic label «أحمد الريسوني»; the two labels are identical, so the pair is flagged for data/_homonyms.yaml in the writer's report (the writer does not edit that file). The International Union of Muslim Scholars has no group entity in the museum yet, and neither Ouled Soltane nor Ksar el-Kebir has a place entity, so no relations are written.",
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