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  "ar": "البشير صفر",
  "en": "Béchir Sfar",
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  "ar": "مصلح وقائد وطني تونسي (1856–1917)؛ تخرج في أول دفعة من المدرسة الصادقية ودرس في باريس، ورأس مجلس الحبوس واستقال منه سنة 1898 احتجاجًا على بيع الأوقاف للمستعمرين، وأسس جمعية الخلدونية وجريدة «الحاضرة» (1888)، وشارك علي باش حانبة تأسيس حركة الشباب التونسي سنة 1907، ولُقّب بأبي النهضة التونسية.",
  "en": "Tunisian reformer and nationalist leader (1856–1917). In the first graduating class of Sadiki College, he studied in Paris, headed the Habous Council and resigned from it in 1898 in protest at the sale of endowment land to French colonists, founded the Khaldounia association and the newspaper El Hadhira (1888), and co-founded the Young Tunisians with Ali Bach Hamba in 1907; he was called a father of the Tunisian renaissance.",
  "ur": "تونسی مصلح اور قوم پرست رہنما (1856–1917)؛ مدرسہ صادقیہ کی پہلی فارغ التحصیل جماعت میں شامل تھے، پیرس میں پڑھا، مجلس حبوس کی صدارت کی اور 1898 میں اوقاف کی زمین فرانسیسی آباد کاروں کو فروخت کے احتجاج میں مستعفی ہوئے، خلدونیہ انجمن اور اخبار «الحاضرہ» (1888) قائم کیا، اور 1907 میں علی باش حانبہ کے ساتھ نوجوان تونسی تحریک کی بنیاد رکھی؛ انھیں تونسی نہضت کا بانی کہا جاتا ہے۔"
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   "note": "Born in Tunis on 27 February 1856, as the English and French articles and Wikidata agree. The Arabic article's lead gives 27 February 1865 instead — most likely a transposition of the digits, since he was in the first Sadiki graduating class, was sent on a government study mission to Paris in 1880 and was back heading a ministry division by 1882; the 1856 date is followed, with the conflict disclosed. His father Mustafa Sfar, an army commander, was originally from Mahdia. The Hijri year is derived.",
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   "note": "Died in Tunis on 1 March 1917. The Hijri year is derived.",
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    "note": "No consulted source states a religion or school for him. The English article records his call that Tunisians not 'deny their Muslim Arab culture and lose their identity' and his view that national renewal required Islamic culture taught alongside modern sciences — public advocacy about his people's culture, not an attestation of his own school; the Arabic and French articles likewise name none, and Wikidata carries no religion value for him.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "البشير صفر (1856–1917) مصلح وقائد وطني تونسي، من قادة الحركة الإصلاحية التونسية حتى لُقّب بـ«أبي النهضة التونسية» الثاني بعد خير الدين التونسي.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد بمدينة تونس في 27 فبراير 1856 (يعطي مطلع المقالة العربية 1865، والأرجح أنه قلبٌ لرقمي التاريخ الذي تجمع عليه المقالة الإنجليزية والمقالة الفرنسية وويكيداتا).{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar} تنحدر عائلته من أصول تركية استقرت بمدينة المهدية، وانتقل والده مصطفى صفر إلى تونس سنة 1842 للعمل بالجيش التونسي حتى صار أمير لواء ثم وكيل كاتب دولة بوزارة الحرب.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar} دخل البشير المدرسة الصادقية وكان في أول دفعة تخرجت فيها، ثم أُرسل في بعثة طالبية إلى باريس سنة 1880 وعاد إلى تونس سنة 1882 بعد قطع المنحة.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة والإصلاح",
     "markdown": "تولى عند عودته منصبًا حكوميًا، وصار رئيس قسم المحاسبة في مكتب الوزير الأكبر من 1882 إلى 1891.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} أسس جمعية الخلدونية، وترأس سنواتٍ مجلس الحبوس المسؤول عن أراضي الأوقاف، ثم استقال منه سنة 1898 احتجاجًا على القوانين الاستعمارية التي أتاحت للفرنسيين الاستيلاء على أراضي الحبوس وبيعها للمستعمرين.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} أسس في 2 أغسطس 1888 جريدة «الحاضرة»، ودعا فيها التونسيين إلى صون ثقافتهم العربية المسلمة وعدم فقدان هويتهم، ورأى أن نهضة تونس لا تكون إلا بالتعليم الذي يجمع الثقافة الإسلامية إلى العلوم والاقتصاد والتاريخ والجغرافيا واللغات الحديثة.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} شارك علي باش حانبة سنة 1907 تأسيس حركة الشباب التونسي.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} زار مصر سنة 1907 فترك تقدم التعليم الحديث فيها أثرًا عميقًا فيه.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة",
     "markdown": "توفي في تونس في 1 مارس 1917.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-fr}{cite:wikidata-bechir-sfar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- ويكيبيديا العربية، «البشير صفر».{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}\n- ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، \"Béchir Sfar\".{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}\n- ويكيبيديا الفرنسية، \"Béchir Sfar\".{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-fr}\n- ويكيداتا، Q2929700.{cite:wikidata-bechir-sfar}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Béchir Sfar (1856–1917) was a Tunisian reformer and nationalist leader, one of the leaders of the Tunisian reform movement, called a second \"father of the Tunisian renaissance\" after Kheireddine of Tunis.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born in Tunis on 27 February 1856 (the Arabic article's lead gives 1865, most likely a transposition of the digits of the date on which the English and French articles and Wikidata agree).{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar} His family was of Turkish origin, settled at Mahdia; his father Mustafa Sfar moved to Tunis in 1842 to serve in the Tunisian army, rising to army commander and then undersecretary at the War Ministry.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar} Béchir entered Sadiki College and was in its first graduating class, was sent on a government study mission to Paris in 1880, and returned to Tunis in 1882 after the mission's funding was cut.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career and reform",
     "markdown": "On his return he took a government post and headed the accounting division in the Grand Vizier's office from 1882 to 1891.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} He founded the Khaldounia association and for years headed the Habous Council responsible for endowment land, resigning in 1898 in protest at colonial laws that allowed the French to acquire habous land and sell it to colonists.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} On 2 August 1888 he founded the newspaper El Hadhira (The Capital), in which he called on Tunisians to preserve their Muslim Arab culture and not lose their identity, holding that Tunisia's renewal could come only through education joining Islamic culture to science, economics, history, geography and modern languages.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} In 1907 he co-founded the Young Tunisians with Ali Bach Hamba.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} A visit to Egypt in 1907, where modern education's effects were visible everywhere in public life, left a strong impression on him.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died in Tunis on 1 March 1917.{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-fr}{cite:wikidata-bechir-sfar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- Arabic Wikipedia, \"Béchir Sfar\".{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}\n- English Wikipedia, \"Béchir Sfar\".{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}\n- French Wikipedia, \"Béchir Sfar\".{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-fr}\n- Wikidata, Q2929700.{cite:wikidata-bechir-sfar}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "بشیر صفر (1856–1917) تونسی مصلح اور قوم پرست رہنما تھے؛ انھیں خیر الدین تونسی کے بعد «تونسی نہضت کا باپ» کہا جاتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ 27 فروری 1856 کو تونس میں پیدا ہوئے (عربی مضمون کے آغاز میں 1865 درج ہے، جو غالباً اعداد کی تبدیلی ہے)۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar} ان کا خاندان مہدیہ میں مقیم ترک نژاد تھا اور والد مصطفیٰ صفر فوجی کمانڈر تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar} وہ صادقی کالج کی پہلی فارغ التحصیل جماعت میں تھے، 1880 میں سرکاری وظیفے پر پیرس گئے اور 1882 میں واپس آئے۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اصلاحی خدمات",
     "markdown": "انھوں نے خلدونیہ انجمن قائم کی اور برسوں مجلس حبوس کی صدارت کی، پھر 1898 میں اوقاف کی زمین فرانسیسی آباد کاروں کو فروخت کے احتجاج میں مستعفی ہو گئے۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} 1888 میں اخبار «الحاضرہ» جاری کیا جس میں تونسیوں کو اپنی مسلم عرب ثقافت اور شناخت بچانے کی دعوت دی۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en} 1907 میں علی باش حانبہ کے ساتھ نوجوان تونسی تحریک کی بنیاد رکھی۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "ان کا انتقال یکم مارچ 1917 کو تونس میں ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}{cite:wikidata-bechir-sfar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- عربی ویکیپیڈیا، «البشیر صفر»۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-ar}\n- انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا، \"Béchir Sfar\"۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-en}\n- فرانسیسی ویکیپیڈیا، \"Béchir Sfar\"۔{cite:wikipedia-bechir-sfar-fr}\n- ویکی ڈیٹا، Q2929700۔{cite:wikidata-bechir-sfar}"
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