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  "ar": "الشيخ بوعمامة",
  "en": "Cheikh Bouamama",
  "ur": "شیخ بوعمامہ"
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  "ar": "قائد مقاومة جزائري (مختلف في سنة ميلاده: 1833 أو نحو 1840 – 1908)؛ من أولاد سيدي الشيخ بفجيج، أسس زاويته بمغرار التحتاني وقاد مقاومة الجنوب الوهراني والصحراء ضد الغزو الفرنسي من 1881 حتى وفاته بالعيون سيدي ملوك قرب وجدة.",
  "en": "Algerian resistance leader (birth year contested: 1833 or c. 1840 – 1908). Of the Awlad Sidi Shaykh of Figuig, he founded his zawiya at Moghrar Tahtani and led the resistance of the South Oranais and the Sahara to the French conquest from 1881 until his death at El Aioun Sidi Mellouk, near Oujda.",
  "ur": "جزائری مزاحمتی رہنما (سالِ ولادت متنازع: 1833 یا تقریباً 1840 – 1908)؛ فجیج کے اولاد سیدی شیخ سے تعلق، مغرار التحتانی میں اپنی زاویہ قائم کی اور 1881 سے وفات تک جنوبی وہران اور صحرا میں فرانسیسی قبضے کی مزاحمت کی قیادت کی؛ وفات العیون سیدی ملوک، وجدة کے قریب ہوئی۔"
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  "latest": 1908.7940888587402
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   "note": "The French article gives 1833, citing Hassan Remaoun's L'Algérie: histoire, société et culture (p. 215) and Rachid Benyoub (2002), and the Arabic article's classification agrees. The English article gives 1841, citing Paul Gaffarel (1905); the Arabic article's text places his birth in the 1830s, between 1838 and 1840; Wikidata carries both 1833 and 1840; the lane queue gives 1840. The French article's sourced 1833 is followed. He was born at El-Hammam El-Fougani in the ksar of Figuig (Morocco); Figuig has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1908-10-17",
   "hijri": "1326",
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   "note": "The Arabic article, the French article's infobox and Wikidata give 17 October 1908, at El Aioun Sidi Mellouk near Oujda; the French article's text gives 7 October 1908. The 17 October date, carried by three of the four witnesses, is followed. El Aioun has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "الشيخ بوعمامة",
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   "edtf": "1833",
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   "note": "The French article gives 1833, citing Hassan Remaoun's L'Algérie: histoire, société et culture (p. 215) and Rachid Benyoub (2002), and the Arabic article's classification agrees. The English article gives 1841, citing Paul Gaffarel (1905); the Arabic article's text places his birth in the 1830s, between 1838 and 1840; Wikidata carries both 1833 and 1840; the lane queue gives 1840. The French article's sourced 1833 is followed. He was born at El-Hammam El-Fougani in the ksar of Figuig (Morocco); Figuig has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1908-10-17",
   "hijri": "1326",
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   "note": "The Arabic article, the French article's infobox and Wikidata give 17 October 1908, at El Aioun Sidi Mellouk near Oujda; the French article's text gives 7 October 1908. The 17 October date, carried by three of the four witnesses, is followed. El Aioun has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "The Arabic article's text states of him personally that he belonged doctrinally to the Tayyibiyya order, and its infobox names his occupation as shaykh of the Tayyibiyya order — one article's text attestation. The French article records Sufi instruction in his youth, which is formation, and says only in the conditional, while noting the point is contested (the researcher Ahmed Bencherif dates the confrérie to the sixteenth century), that he reportedly founded or revived a Sufi confrérie about 1875–76, his people having previously followed the Cheikhiya. The English article names no affiliation and Wikidata carries no religion value. One unhedged personal attestation with only a hedged and contested second does not meet the two-source bar; under the doubt rule sufi is not recorded, and both readings are preserved here.",
    "sources": [
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English, French and Arabic Wikipedia articles on Cheikh Bouamama (no Urdu article exists), each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1371941780, FR 239839061, AR 76873614) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q2962098 (revision 2550035807). Existence checks by name fragments (Bouamama, بوعمامة, بو عمامة) and by QID across data/person and data/source found no prior record. The lane queue gives 1840–1908; the birth year is contested in the sources and is recorded as debated with all readings in the born note.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الشيخ بوعمامة (اختلف في سنة ميلاده: 1833 عند الفرنسية بمصادرها، و1841 عند الإنجليزية – 17 أكتوبر 1908) قائد مقاومة جزائري من أولاد سيدي الشيخ، قاد مقاومة الجنوب الوهراني والصحراء ضد الغزو الفرنسي من 1881 إلى وفاته.{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته",
     "markdown": "وُلد بقصر الحمام الفوقاني في منطقة فجيج بالمغرب، وينحدر من أولاد سيدي الشيخ؛ حفظ القرآن وتعلم العلوم الشرعية في الزوايا، وتلقى تربيته الصوفية عن مقدم زاوية سيدي الشيخ سيدي محمد بن عبد الرحمان، ثم انتقل نحو 1875 إلى مغرار التحتاني فأسس زاوية لتعليم القرآن تكوّنت منها شعبيته بين قبائل المنطقة. وينص متن المقالة العربية على انتمائه عقائديًا إلى الطريقة الطيبية.{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الثورة",
     "markdown": "بدأت ثورته بمعركة صفيصيفة جنوب عين الصفراء في 27 أبريل 1881 التي هُزم فيها الفرنسيون، ثم واصل حرب عصابات متنقلة في الجنوب الوهراني وشمال الصحراء أكثر من عقدين، متنقلًا بين المغرب وتوات، ولم يُلقَ القبض عليه قط.{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي في 17 أكتوبر 1908 بالعيون سيدي ملوك قرب وجدة (ويذكر متن المقالة الفرنسية 7 أكتوبر). تناولت حياته أعمال منها فيلم «ملحمة الشيخ بوعمامة» (1983).{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-fr}} {{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-en}}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Cheikh Bouamama (born 1833 by the French article's sourced account, 1841 in the English article; died 17 October 1908) was an Algerian resistance leader of the Awlad Sidi Shaykh who fought the French conquest in the southwest of Algeria from 1881 to 1908.{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "He was born at El-Hammam El-Fougani in the ksar of Figuig, in present-day Morocco, into the Awlad Sidi Shaykh, and received a Sufi education; in about 1875 he settled at Moghrar Tahtani, in the Algerian South Oranais, and founded a zawiya for teaching the Qur'an.{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The revolt",
     "markdown": "His rising opened with the battle of Sfissifa, south of Aïn Sefra, on 27 April 1881, in which the French column was defeated.{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-fr} For more than two decades he sustained a mobile guerrilla war across the South Oranais and the northern Sahara, withdrawing at times into Morocco and the Touat, and was never captured.{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died on 17 October 1908 (the French article's text gives 7 October) at El Aioun Sidi Mellouk, near Oujda.{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar} His life was the subject of the Algerian film The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama (1983).{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-fr}} {{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar}}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "شیخ بوعمامہ (سالِ ولادت متنازع: فرانسیسی مقالے کے مطابق 1833، انگریزی کے مطابق 1841 – 17 اکتوبر 1908) اولاد سیدی شیخ سے تعلق رکھنے والے جزائری مزاحمتی رہنما تھے جنہوں نے 1881 سے وفات تک جنوب مغربی جزائر میں فرانسیسی قبضے کی مزاحمت کی۔{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ مراکش کے فجیج کے قصر الحمام الفوقانی میں پیدا ہوئے اور زاویوں میں قرآن اور شرعی علوم کی تعلیم پائی۔ تقریباً 1875 میں وہ مغرار التحتانی منتقل ہوئے اور قرآن کی تعلیم کے لیے ایک زاویہ قائم کی جس سے ان کی مقبولیت قبائل میں پھیلی۔ عربی مقالے کے متن کے مطابق وہ عقیدتاً طیبیہ سلسلے سے وابستہ تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بغاوت",
     "markdown": "ان کی بغاوت کا آغاز 27 اپریل 1881 کو عین الصفراء کے جنوب میں صفیصیفہ کی لڑائی سے ہوا جس میں فرانسیسی دستہ شکست کھا گیا۔ اس کے بعد انہوں نے دو دہائیوں سے زیادہ جنوبی وہران اور شمالی صحرا میں متحرک گوریلا جنگ جاری رکھی اور کبھی گرفتار نہ ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "ان کا انتقال 17 اکتوبر 1908 کو وجدة کے قریب العیون سیدی ملوک میں ہوا (فرانسیسی مقالے کا متن 7 اکتوبر دیتا ہے)۔ ان کی زندگی پر جزائری فلم «ملحمة الشيخ بوعمامة» (1983) بھی بنی۔{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-fr}} {{cite:wikipedia-cheikh-bouamama-en}}"
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