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 "id": "person/faisal-bin-abdulaziz",
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 "label": {
  "ar": "فيصل بن عبد العزيز آل سعود",
  "en": "Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud",
  "ur": "فیصل بن عبدالعزیز آل سعود"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ثالث ملوك المملكة العربية السعودية (1906–1975)، ابن الملك عبد العزيز من طرفة بنت عبد الله آل الشيخ. كان نائب الملك في الحجاز من 1926 ووزير الخارجية من 1930 وولي العهد من 1953، فألغى الرق سنة 1962 وساهم في تأسيس رابطة العالم الإسلامي والجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة، وتولّى سلطات الملك سعود سنة 1964 ثم بُويع ملكًا في 2 نوفمبر 1964 بعد خلع أخيه، وقاد حظر النفط سنة 1973، واغتاله ابن أخيه فيصل بن مساعد في الرياض في 25 مارس 1975.",
  "en": "Third King of Saudi Arabia (1906–1975), a son of King Abdulaziz by Tarfa bint Abdullah Al Sheikh. He was viceroy of Hejaz from 1926, foreign minister from 1930 and crown prince from 1953; he abolished slavery in 1962 and helped found the Muslim World League and the Islamic University of Madinah, took over King Saud's powers in 1964 and was proclaimed king on 2 November 1964 after his brother's deposition, led the 1973 oil embargo, and was assassinated by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid in Riyadh on 25 March 1975.",
  "ur": "سعودی عرب کے تیسرے بادشاہ (1906ء–1975ء)، شاہ عبد العزیز اور طرفہ بنت عبد اللہ آل الشیخ کے صاحبزادے۔ 1926ء سے حجاز کے نائب السلطان، 1930ء سے وزیر خارجہ اور 1953ء سے ولی عہد رہے؛ 1962ء میں غلامی ختم کی، رابطہ عالم اسلامی اور مدینہ کی اسلامی یونیورسٹی کے قیام میں حصہ لیا، 1964ء میں شاہ سعود کے اختیارات سنبھالے اور ان کی معزولی کے بعد 2 نومبر 1964ء کو بادشاہ بنے، 1973ء کی تیل پابندی کی قیادت کی، اور 25 مارچ 1975ء کو ریاض میں اپنے بھتیجے فیصل بن مساعد کے ہاتھوں قتل ہوئے۔"
 },
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  "arabia"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1906.2806902263565,
  "latest": 1975.2294023833163
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 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1906-04-14",
   "hijri": "1324",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Riyadh on 14 April 1906 on the English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata; the Arabic article pairs the date with 14 Safar 1324 AH. The Urdu article gives his birth in April 1905, a variant disclosed here and not followed. No place entity for Riyadh exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no born_in relation is written; the Hijri year (1324) is the Arabic article's pairing, recorded as the derived year of the same date.",
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  "end": {
   "edtf": "1975-03-25",
   "hijri": "1395",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "He was assassinated in Riyadh on 25 March 1975, shot by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid (English article; Wikidata place Riyadh); the Arabic article pairs the date with 12 Rabi' al-Awwal 1395 AH. No place entity for Riyadh exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no died_in relation is written; the Hijri year (1395) is the Arabic article's pairing, recorded as the derived year of the same date.",
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   {
    "value": "Faisal bin Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "فيصل بن عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Faisal of Saudi Arabia",
    "kind": "regnal"
   },
   {
    "value": "فیصل بن عبدالعزیز آل سعود",
    "kind": "full"
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  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "ruler"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1906-04-14",
   "hijri": "1324",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born at Riyadh on 14 April 1906 on the English article, the Arabic article and Wikidata; the Arabic article pairs the date with 14 Safar 1324 AH. The Urdu article gives his birth in April 1905, a variant disclosed here and not followed. No place entity for Riyadh exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no born_in relation is written; the Hijri year (1324) is the Arabic article's pairing, recorded as the derived year of the same date.",
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1975-03-25",
   "hijri": "1395",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "He was assassinated in Riyadh on 25 March 1975, shot by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid (English article; Wikidata place Riyadh); the Arabic article pairs the date with 12 Rabi' al-Awwal 1395 AH. No place entity for Riyadh exists in the museum, so the place is carried in this note and no died_in relation is written; the Hijri year (1395) is the Arabic article's pairing, recorded as the derived year of the same date.",
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED for the founder: a Sunni reading exists but rests on a category filing alone. In full: no article text names a school for him. The English article calls him 'a pious Muslim' — piety, not an affiliation — and records that his mother Tarfa was a descendant of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and that he was raised and educated by his Al ash-Sheikh maternal grandparents, which is family background and formation and never counts. The Arabic article names no madhhab for him; the Urdu article's text names no school and files him under 'Saudi Sunni Muslims', a category filing, which never attests; Wikidata's only religion value is Islam (Q432) generically. The Sunni reading therefore has no text attestation at all, let alone two independent ones, and the state doctrine of his kingdom and his office as its king are not a personal attestation (the headship line); the value stays unknown under the two-source rule and the doubt rule, with the reading preserved here.",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Faisal of Saudi Arabia' (revision 1376227616 of 22 September 2026), Arabic Wikipedia 'فيصل بن عبد العزيز آل سعود' (revision 76801117 of 29 September 2026) and Urdu Wikipedia 'فیصل بن عبدالعزیز آل سعود' (revision 9070786 of 1 September 2025), each fetched on 27 October 2026 by its recorded revision id and asserted equal to it, with Wikidata item Q217167 (item revision 2557877041 of 17 October 2026), likewise fetched by revision id and asserted equal. The man was verified absent from the museum in both directions: no person file matches his name in any script (the existing faisal-i-of-iraq and faisal-bin-turki-al-busaidi are different men) and no museum record carries Q217167. His Arabic label فيصل بن عبد العزيز آل سعود collides with no existing record's label. His kingship succession to Saud and his sonship of Abdulaziz are both written here, in the subject's record, on the English article's infobox (predecessor Saud) and Wikidata's father value (Q151509); no relations are written for his birth or death places, because the museum has no place entity for Riyadh.",
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 "prose": {
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والمسيرة",
     "markdown": "وُلد في الرياض في 14 أبريل 1906، وهو 14 صفر 1324هـ؛ أما المقالة الأردية فتذكر ولادته في أبريل 1905، وهي رواية مغايرة لم تُتّبع هنا. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur} وأمه طرفة بنت عبد الله آل الشيخ، من ذرية محمد بن عبد الوهاب، وبعد وفاتها سنة 1906 نشأ عند جدّيه لأمه، فأتمّ على يد جدّه دراسة القرآن والفقه وهو في التاسعة. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} وكان نائب الملك في الحجاز من 1926 إلى 1932 ووزير الخارجية من 1930، ولما توفي والده سنة 1953 وصار أخوه سعود ملكًا، صار فيصل وليًا للعهد ورئيسًا للوزراء. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الطريق إلى العرش",
     "markdown": "ألغى فيصل الرق في السعودية سنة 1962 وهو ولي للعهد؛ وكان قد ساهم في تأسيس الجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة المنورة سنة 1961 ورابطة العالم الإسلامي سنة 1962. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} وفي مارس 1964، إثر مرض الملك سعود وأزمة المملكة المالية، جعلته فتوى العلماء وقرار كبار الأمراء نائبًا عن الملك بسلطات كاملة؛ وفي 1 نوفمبر 1964 أعلن العلماء والقضاة خلع سعود، وبُويع فيصل ملكًا في 2 نوفمبر 1964. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم والاغتيال",
     "markdown": "أدخل فيصل أول محطة تلفزيون في المملكة، ووسّع التمثيل السياسي بحذر، وحمل — كما تلاحظ المقالة الإنجليزية مستندة إلى مكانته بوصفه مسلمًا تقيًا — إصلاحات اجتماعية مثل تعليم الإناث رغم احتجاج المحافظين، مقنعًا إياهم بالحجة. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} وبعد حرب أكتوبر 1973 قاد حظر النفط العربي على الدول الداعمة لإسرائيل. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} وفي 25 مارس 1975 أُطلق عليه النار في الرياض فقتله ابن أخيه فيصل بن مساعد، وخلفه أخوه خالد. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة على السجل",
     "markdown": "لا يذكر أي مصدر مدرسة دينية لفيصل. فالمقالة الإنجليزية تصفه بأنه مسلم تقي — وهو تديّن لا انتماء — ونسبه من جهة أمه إلى آل الشيخ هو خلفية عائلية؛ والمقالة الأردية تصنّفه ضمن «سعودي سني مسلم»، وهو تصنيف لا يُعد شهادة؛ وقيمة الدين الوحيدة في ويكيداتا هي الإسلام دون فرع. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz} فالقراءة السنية إذن قائمة على تصنيف وحده، وتُسجَّل عقيدته «غير معروفة» مع حفظ القراءة لعناية المؤسس.\n\nخلف سعود على العرش، وهذه الخلافة وبنوّته للملك عبد العزيز مكتوبتان في هذا السجل. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz}"
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    "id": "person/faisal-bin-abdulaziz",
    "lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and career",
     "markdown": "He was born in Riyadh on 14 April 1906; the Arabic article pairs the date with 14 Safar 1324 AH, while the Urdu article gives April 1905, a variant not followed here. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur} His mother, Tarfa bint Abdullah Al Sheikh, was a descendant of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and after her death in 1906 he was raised by his maternal grandparents, under whose mentorship he completed his study of the Qur'an and of Islamic law by the age of nine. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} He served as viceroy of Hejaz from 1926 to 1932 and as foreign minister from 1930, and when his father died in 1953 and his half-brother Saud became king, Faisal became crown prince and prime minister. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Path to the throne",
     "markdown": "As crown prince Faisal abolished slavery in Saudi Arabia in 1962; he had helped found the Islamic University of Madinah in 1961 and the Muslim World League in 1962. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} In March 1964, amid King Saud's illness and the kingdom's financial crisis, a fatwa of the ulama and a decision of the senior princes made Faisal regent with full powers; on 1 November 1964 the ulama and judges announced Saud's deposition, and Faisal was proclaimed king on 2 November 1964. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Reign and assassination",
     "markdown": "Faisal introduced the kingdom's first television station, broadened political representation cautiously, and — the English article notes, on the strength of his standing as a pious Muslim — carried through social reforms such as female education against conservative protest, persuading the conservatives by argument. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} After the October 1973 war he led the Arab oil embargo against states supporting Israel. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} On 25 March 1975 he was shot and killed in Riyadh by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid, and was succeeded by his half-brother Khalid. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Note on the record",
     "markdown": "No source names a religious school for Faisal. The English article calls him a pious Muslim — piety, not an affiliation — and his Al ash-Sheikh descent on his mother's side is family background; the Urdu article files him under \"Saudi Sunni Muslims\", a category filing, which never attests; and Wikidata's only religion value is Islam, with no branch. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz} The Sunni reading thus rests on a filing alone, and his faith is recorded as unknown, with the reading preserved for the founder's attention.\n\nHe succeeded Saud on the throne, and both that succession and his sonship of King Abdulaziz are written in this record. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تخت نشینی",
     "markdown": "اردو مقالہ ان کی پیدائش اپریل 1905ء بتاتا ہے، جبکہ انگریزی و عربی مقالے اور ویکی ڈیٹا 14 اپریل 1906ء ریاض بتاتے ہیں — یہی تاریخ یہاں اختیار کی گئی ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} وہ 1920ء کی دہائی میں حجاز کے گورنر اور بعد میں وزیر خارجہ رہے؛ 1962ء میں انھوں نے غلامی ختم کی، اور 1964ء میں علما کے فتوے اور خاندان کے فیصلے سے شاہ سعود معزول ہوئے اور فیصل بادشاہ بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دور حکومت اور قتل",
     "markdown": "انھوں نے رابطہ عالم اسلامی اور مدینہ کی اسلامی یونیورسٹی کے قیام میں حصہ لیا، ملک میں ٹیلی ویژن متعارف کرایا اور 1973ء میں عرب تیل پابندی کی قیادت کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} 25 مارچ 1975ء کو ریاض میں ان کے بھتیجے فیصل بن مساعد نے انھیں قتل کر دیا اور ان کے بعد ان کے بھائی خالد بادشاہ بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ریکارڈ پر نوٹ",
     "markdown": "کوئی ماخذ ان کے لیے کوئی مذہبی مکتب بیان نہیں کرتا: انگریزی مقالہ انھیں پرہیزگار مسلمان کہتا ہے جو دینداری ہے نہ کہ وابستگی، اردو مقالہ انھیں «سعودی سنی مسلم» کے زمرے میں رکھتا ہے جو محض درجہ بندی ہے، اور ویکی ڈیٹا کی واحد مذہبی قدر اسلام ہے؛ لہٰذا ان کا مذہب «نامعلوم» درج ہے اور سنی قراءت محفوظ رکھی گئی ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur} {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-faisal-bin-abdulaziz-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-faisal-bin-abdulaziz}"
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