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 "label": {
  "ar": "أحسن حنيف",
  "en": "Ahsan Hanif",
  "ur": "احسن حنیف"
 },
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  "ar": "عالم وإمام بريطاني من برمنغهام. حفظ القرآن في الثالثة عشرة، وحصل على منحة للدراسة في الجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة المنورة سنة 2000 وتخرّج في كلية الشريعة سنة 2006، ثم نال الدكتوراه في الفقه الإسلامي من جامعة برمنغهام. وهو إمام وخطيب في مسجد غرين لين، ويرأس قسم علوم القرآن والحديث في معهد المغرب.",
  "en": "British scholar and imam from Birmingham. He memorised the Qur'an at thirteen, won a scholarship to the Islamic University of Madinah in 2000 and graduated from its Faculty of Shari'ah in 2006, then completed a PhD in Islamic law at the University of Birmingham. He is an imam and khateeb at Green Lane Masjid and heads AlMaghrib Institute's department of Qur'an and Hadith sciences; Muslim Central carries some 600 of his lectures.",
  "ur": "برمنگھم سے تعلق رکھنے والے برطانوی عالم و امام۔ انہوں نے تیرہ برس کی عمر میں قرآن حفظ کیا، 2000 میں جامعہ اسلامیہ مدینہ منورہ کی اسکالرشپ حاصل کی اور 2006 میں کلیہ شریعہ سے فارغ ہوئے، پھر برمنگھم یونیورسٹی سے اسلامی قانون میں پی ایچ ڈی کی۔ وہ گرین لین مسجد کے امام و خطیب ہیں اور المغرب انسٹی ٹیوٹ کے شعبہ علوم قرآن و حدیث کے سربراہ ہیں۔"
 },
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  "andalus-europe"
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   {
    "value": "أحسن حنيف",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Ahsan Hanif",
    "kind": "full"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "teacher"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Neither consulted biography names a school for him. The Muslim Central biography (AlMaghrib's text) and the Al-Isnad Institute instructor biography give his Madinah training, his teachers Abd al-Muhsin al-Abbad and Muhammad ibn Muhammad Mukhtar al-Shinqiti, and his Green Lane Masjid post; teachers, universities and mosques do not attest a personal school. He stays unknown until two independent sources name one.",
    "sources": [
     "source/muslim-central-ahsan-hanif",
     "source/al-isnad-ahsan-hanif"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/muslim-central-ahsan-hanif",
   "source/al-isnad-ahsan-hanif"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Row 268 of the handoff section-2 list. Two instructor biographies consulted 26 October 2026: Muslim Central's Ahsan Hanif podcast biography (AlMaghrib's instructor text, via Listen Notes) and the Al-Isnad Institute's course instructor biography; they agree on every fact used. No Wikipedia article and no Wikidata item exists (Wikidata entity search returned nothing on 26 October 2026). His Madinah teachers have museum records under similar names; no student_of edge is written, to avoid a namesake mislink.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
   "run": "modern-figures-batch-50"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-10-26",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}