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  "ar": "عالم يمني (ولد 16 أبريل 1971 في جدة) من طريقة آل باعلوي، تلميذ عمر بن حفيظ في تريم، يقيم في القاهرة؛ مؤسس مؤسسة طابة وحائز جائزة أويغن بيسر عن عمله في مبادرة كلمة سواء.",
  "en": "Yemeni scholar (born 16 April 1971 in Jeddah) of the Ba 'Alawi tradition, a student of Umar bin Hafiz in Tarim, based in Cairo; founder of the Tabah Foundation and a recipient of the Eugen Biser Award for his work on A Common Word."
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   "note": "Born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; the English article (citing Thomas Pierret, Religion and State in Syria, p. 127) and the Arabic article pair 16 April 1971 with 20 Safar 1391 AH, so the Hijri year is sourced, not derived.",
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    "value": "Habib Ali al-Jufri"
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    "note": "The Arabic article carries a dedicated section on his Sufism, reporting that those concerned with Sufism, especially the scholars of Syria, Yemen, Egypt and the Maghreb, count him among the figures of the 'moderate Sufism' preached by the early imams, and its criticism passage attests that he adopts the Ash'ari method and adheres to the teachings of Sufism; the Urdu article's lead calls him a Yemeni Sunni and Sufi scholar in its own text, and his decade of discipleship in Tarim under Umar bin Hafiz (1993–2003) is attested in the Arabic text. Wikidata's religion value, Sufism, is the same family's structured echo and is not counted. No madhhab segment is recorded — the Shafi'i madhhab and Ash'ari creed rest on the Arabic and Urdu infoboxes, which share one template family, plus English category filings, a single infobox family that the two-source rule does not accept; both values are preserved in this note.",
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   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Ali al-Jifri and Wikidata item Q4120565, each fetched by its recorded revision id and read in full, the returned revision ids asserted equal to the recorded ones before any claim was drawn. Wikidata's English label spells the name 'al-Jufri'; the articles' 'al-Jifri' spelling governs the slug and label, the variant being kept as an alternate name.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "علي زين العابدين الجفري (ولد 16 أبريل 1971) عالم يمني من طريقة آل باعلوي يقيم في القاهرة.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} وهو مؤسس مؤسسة طابة في أبوظبي، وحائز جائزة أويغن بيسر عام 2008 عن عمله في مبادرة «كلمة سواء».{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الميلاد والطلب",
     "markdown": "ولد في جدة بالمملكة العربية السعودية في 16 أبريل 1971 الموافق 20 صفر 1391هـ.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} قرأ منذ العاشرة من عمره على عبد القادر بن أحمد السقاف في جدة، وأخذ عن أحمد مشهور الحداد ومحمد علوي المالكي، ثم انتقل إلى تريم بحضرموت في صحبة عمر بن حفيظ من 1993 إلى 2003.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} وتتصدر قائمة شيوخه في المقالة العربية اسم عمر بن حفيظ عميد دار المصطفى، الذي قرأ وحضر عليه كثيرًا من كتب الحديث والتزكية والفقه، وتذكر المقالة أنه أخذ الإجازة من أكثر من ثلاثمائة شيخ.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "العمل",
     "markdown": "أسس مؤسسة طابة في أبوظبي ويرأس مجلس إدارتها، وهو عضو في دار المصطفى بتريم.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar}{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur} وقد أدرجته قائمة الخمسمئة مسلم مرارًا ضمن الخمسين الأوائل، وحلّ في المرتبة 22 عام 2023.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصوفه",
     "markdown": "تخصص المقالة العربية قسمًا لتصوفه، فتذكر أن المهتمين بالتصوف، خاصة علماء الشام واليمن ومصر والمغرب العربي، يعدّونه من أعلام التصوف المعتدل، وتنقل فقرة الانتقادات أنه يتبنى المنهج الأشعري ويلتزم بتعاليم التصوف.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} ويصفه متن المقالة الأردية بأنه عالم يمني سني وصوفي.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur}"
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     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-ali-al-jifri}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ali al-Jifri (born 16 April 1971) is a Yemeni scholar of the Ba 'Alawi tradition who is based in Cairo, Egypt.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en} He founded the Tabah Foundation in Abu Dhabi and received the Eugen Biser Award in 2008 for his work on the interfaith initiative A Common Word.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Birth and study",
     "markdown": "He was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 16 April 1971, corresponding to 20 Safar 1391 AH.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} From the age of ten he read with Abdul Qadir bin Ahmad al-Saqqaf in Jeddah, and studied also with Ahmed Mashur al-Haddad and Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, before settling in Tarim in Hadhramaut in the company of Umar bin Hafiz from 1993 to 2003.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} The Arabic article's list of his teachers names Umar bin Hafiz, dean of Dar al-Mustafa, under whom he read extensively in hadith, spirituality and law, and reports that he received authorisations from more than three hundred teachers.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Work",
     "markdown": "He founded and chairs the Tabah Foundation in Abu Dhabi, a research institution, and is a member of Dar al-Mustafa in Tarim.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar}{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur} The Muslim 500 has repeatedly placed him in its top fifty, ranking him 22nd in 2023.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sufism",
     "markdown": "The Arabic article devotes a section to his Sufism, reporting that scholars of Sufism in Syria, Yemen, Egypt and the Maghreb count him among the figures of the moderate Sufism preached by the early imams, and its criticism passage records that he adopts the Ash'ari method and adheres to the teachings of Sufism.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} The Urdu article's lead likewise calls him a Yemeni Sunni and Sufi scholar.{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-ali-al-jifri}}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "علی زین العابدین الجفری (پیدائش 16 اپریل 1971ء) باعلوی طریقے کے یمنی عالم ہیں جو قاہرہ میں مقیم ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur} وہ ابوظہبی میں مؤسسۂ طابہ کے بانی ہیں اور مبادرہ «کلمہ سواء» پر کام کے سلسلے میں 2008ء میں اویغن بیسر ایوارڈ حاصل کر چکے ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "پیدائش اور طلبِ علم",
     "markdown": "وہ 16 اپریل 1971ء (20 صفر 1391ھ) کو جدہ، سعودی عرب میں پیدا ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} دس سال کی عمر سے انھوں نے جدہ میں عبد القادر بن احمد السقاف سے پڑھا، احمد مشہور الحداد اور محمد علوی المالکی سے استفادہ کیا، پھر 1993ء سے 2003ء تک حضرموت کے تریم میں عمر بن حفیظ کی صحبت میں رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} عربی مقالے کی اساتذہ کی فہرست میں عمر بن حفیظ سرِ فہرست ہیں جن سے انھوں نے کثرت سے پڑھا اور سنا، اور مقالہ بتاتا ہے کہ انھوں نے تین سو سے زائد اساتذہ سے اجازہ حاصل کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کام",
     "markdown": "وہ مؤسسۂ طابہ کے بانی اور اس کے بورڈ کے چیئرمین ہیں اور تریم کے دار المصطفیٰ کے رکن ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur} مسلم 500 نے انھیں بار بار پہلے پچاس میں رکھا، 2023ء میں وہ 22ویں نمبر پر تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصوف",
     "markdown": "عربی مقالے میں ان کے تصوف پر مستقل باب ہے جس میں اہلِ تصوف، خصوصاً شام، یمن، مصر اور مغرب کے علماء، انھیں معتدل تصوف کے اعلام میں شمار کرتے ہیں، اور تنقید والی فقرات میں یہ آتا ہے کہ وہ اشعری منہج اختیار کرتے اور تصوف کی تعلیمات کی پابندی کرتے ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar} اردو مقالے کا متن انھیں یمنی سنی اور صوفی عالم کہتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur}"
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     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-ali-al-jifri-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-ali-al-jifri}}"
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