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  "ar": "فيصل الحسيني",
  "en": "Faisal Husseini",
  "ur": "فیصل حسینی"
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  "ar": "فيصل عبد القادر الحسيني (17 يوليو 1940 – 31 مايو 2001)، سياسي فلسطيني وُلد في بغداد ابنا للقائد عبد القادر الحسيني، وعمل في منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية منذ تأسيسها، وأسس جمعية الدراسات العربية في القدس سنة 1979، وكان أبرز وجه فلسطيني في القدس الشرقية ووزير السلطة الفلسطينية لشؤون القدس حتى وفاته بأزمة قلبية في الكويت، ودُفن في الخاتونية بالقدس.",
  "en": "Faisal Abdel Qader al-Husseini (17 July 1940 – 31 May 2001) was a Palestinian politician born in Baghdad, the son of the commander Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni. He worked for the PLO from its founding, founded the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem in 1979, and was the leading Palestinian figure in East Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority's Minister for Jerusalem Affairs until his death from a heart attack in Kuwait; he was buried in the Khatuniyya in Jerusalem.",
  "ur": "فیصل عبد القادر حسینی (17 جولائی 1940ء – 31 مئی 2001ء) فلسطینی سیاست دان تھے جو بغداد میں پیدا ہوئے اور کمانڈر عبد القادر الحسینی کے بیٹے تھے۔ وہ تنظیم آزادی فلسطین کے ابتدائی کارکن، 1979ء میں یروشلم میں عرب اسٹڈیز سوسائٹی کے بانی اور فلسطینی اتھارٹی کے وزیر برائے یروشلم امور رہے؛ کویت میں دل کے دورے سے وفات پائی اور یروشلم کی خاتونیہ میں دفن ہوئے۔"
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   "note": "Born in Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq, where his father was in exile; both articles and Wikidata give 17 July 1940. The Hijri year 1359 is a tabular conversion, marked derived.",
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   "note": "Died of a heart attack in Kuwait on 31 May 2001, while working to mend relations between the Kuwaiti government and the PLO. He was buried in the family tomb in the Khatuniyya in Jerusalem, where his father and grandfather were also buried. The Hijri year 1422 is a tabular conversion, marked derived. Kuwait has no place entity in the museum, so no died_in relation is written.",
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    "value": "فيصل عبد القادر الحسيني",
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  "gender": "male",
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   "note": "Born in Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq, where his father was in exile; both articles and Wikidata give 17 July 1940. The Hijri year 1359 is a tabular conversion, marked derived.",
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   "note": "Died of a heart attack in Kuwait on 31 May 2001, while working to mend relations between the Kuwaiti government and the PLO. He was buried in the family tomb in the Khatuniyya in Jerusalem, where his father and grandfather were also buried. The Hijri year 1422 is a tabular conversion, marked derived. Kuwait has no place entity in the museum, so no died_in relation is written.",
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    "note": "Absence configuration: no text in either article names any religion or affiliation for the man, no infobox carries a religion field, and the Wikidata item carries no religion (P140) value at all. The English article records that in 1982 he became a member of the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem — a public office in his career history, which never attests a personal school or affiliation — and his descent from the Husseini family of Jerusalem notables is family background, not attestation. With no reading in any source, there is nothing to weigh; the silence is recorded as it stands.",
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   "source": "Wikipedia articles on Faisal Husseini in English (revision 1351890779 of 30 Apr 2026) and Arabic (revision 76847168 of 3 Oct 2026) and the Wikidata item Q1371476 (item revision 2551270339 of 30 Sep 2026, read twice with identical results), each fetched by its recorded revision id via the MediaWiki API and asserted equal to it (27 October 2026). The QID was grounded through the English article's own page property. No Urdu article exists (titles and search checked), so the Urdu prose is written from the English and Arabic sources and says so. Existence checked both directions before writing: name fragments in English, Arabic and Urdu scripts across data/person/ (the hits are other Husaynis — Musa Kazim and Haj Amin among them), the QID grepped across all of data/person/, biographical comparison, and candidate records' provenance — no prior record of the man existed. His father Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni has no museum record of his own (the Shirazi namesake is a different man), so no child_of edge is written; Kuwait, his place of death, has no place entity.",
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     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فيصل عبد القادر الحسيني (17 يوليو 1940 – 31 مايو 2001)، سياسي فلسطيني من عائلة الحسيني المقدسية، كان أبرز وجه فلسطيني في القدس الشرقية، وعمل في منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية منذ تأسيسها، وأسس جمعية الدراسات العربية، وختم حياته وزيرا للسلطة الفلسطينية لشؤون القدس. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-ar}"
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     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في بغداد، حيث كان والده في المنفى، وهو ابن عبد القادر الحسيني، قائد القوات العربية المحلية في حصار القدس سنة 1948، وحفيد موسى كاظم باشا الحسيني، رئيس بلدية القدس الأسبق، وقريب الحاج محمد أمين الحسيني، مفتي القدس الأسبق. درس في القاهرة وبغداد ودمشق، وكان عضوا مؤسسا في الاتحاد العام لطلبة فلسطين سنة 1959. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "العمل في منظمة التحرير",
     "markdown": "التحق الحسيني بمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية عند تأسيسها في القدس، فعمل نائبا لمدير دائرة التنظيم الشعبي بين 1964 و1965، ثم تلقى تدريبا عسكريا في الكلية العسكرية بدمشق، وانضم إلى جيش التحرير الفلسطيني سنة 1967. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جمعية الدراسات العربية والعمل في القدس",
     "markdown": "أسس الحسيني سنة 1979 جمعية الدراسات العربية وتولى رئاستها، وكان عضوا في لجنة التوجيه الوطني، وأصبح سنة 1982 عضوا في المجلس الإسلامي الأعلى في القدس. فرضت إسرائيل عليه الإقامة الجبرية والإبعاد داخل المدينة مرارا بين 1982 و1987، واعتقلته مرات عدة بين أبريل 1987 ويناير 1989، وظل ناشطا في الانتفاضة الأولى. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}\n\nعمل لاحقا متحدثا فلسطينيا، ورئيسا للمجلس الوطني الفلسطيني في القدس، ومستشارا للوفد الفلسطيني إلى مؤتمر مدريد للسلام سنة 1991 والمحادثات التي تلته، ورئيسا لحركة فتح في الضفة الغربية، ووزيرا بلا حقيبة في السلطة الفلسطينية. وكان آخر مناصبه وزير شؤون القدس في السلطة الفلسطينية، ويعمل من القدس الشرقية. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}\n\nعُدّ الحسيني عند الصحفيين رجلا براغماتيا؛ فقد تعلّم العبرية بنفسه وكان يظهر بانتظام في الإذاعة والتلفزيون الإسرائيليين لشرح وجهة النظر الفلسطينية. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة",
     "markdown": "توفي الحسيني بأزمة قلبية في الكويت في 31 مايو 2001، وهو يحاول إصلاح العلاقات بين الحكومة الكويتية ومنظمة التحرير التي انقطعت منذ حرب الخليج سنة 1991. وبعد وفاته استولت الشرطة الإسرائيلية على مقره، بيت الشرق. ودُفن في ضريح العائلة في الخاتونية بالقدس، حيث دُفن جده وأبوه من قبله. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، وهي مسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- ترجمات وتعديلات لاحقة للمقال تحتاج إلى مراجعة دورية مع تواريخ تحديث واضحة."
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Faisal Abdel Qader al-Husseini (17 July 1940 – 31 May 2001) was a Palestinian politician of the Jerusalem Husseini family, the leading Palestinian figure in East Jerusalem. He worked for the Palestine Liberation Organization from its founding, founded the Arab Studies Society, and ended his career as the Palestinian Authority's Minister for Jerusalem Affairs. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born in Baghdad, where his father was in exile. He was the son of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of the local Arab forces during the 1948 siege of Jerusalem, the grandson of Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini, a former mayor of Jerusalem, and a relative of Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He studied in Cairo, Baghdad and Damascus, and was a founding member of the General Union of Palestinian Students in 1959. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Work for the PLO",
     "markdown": "Husseini went to work for the PLO upon its establishment in Jerusalem, as deputy manager of its Public Organisation Department from 1964 to 1965. He then received military training at the Damascus Military College and joined the Palestinian Liberation Army in 1967. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Arab Studies Society and Jerusalem work",
     "markdown": "In 1979 Husseini founded the Arab Studies Society and became its chairman, and he was a member of the National Guidance Committee. In 1982 he became a member of the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem. Israel repeatedly placed him under house and city arrest between 1982 and 1987, and imprisoned him several times between April 1987 and January 1989, while he remained active in the First Intifada. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}\n\nHe subsequently served as a Palestinian spokesperson, head of the Jerusalem National Council, adviser to the Palestinian delegation to the 1991 Madrid Middle East Peace Conference and the talks that followed, head of the Fatah faction in the West Bank, and a Palestinian Authority minister without portfolio. His last post was Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, based in East Jerusalem. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}\n\nJournalists considered Husseini a pragmatist. He taught himself Hebrew and appeared regularly on Israeli radio and television to present the Palestinian point of view. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "Husseini died of a heart attack in Kuwait on 31 May 2001, while trying to mend relations between the Kuwaiti government and the PLO, broken since the 1991 Gulf War. After his death Israeli police seized his headquarters, the Orient House. He was buried in the family tomb in the Khatuniyya in Jerusalem, where his grandfather and father had also been buried. {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "فیصل عبد القادر حسینی (17 جولائی 1940ء – 31 مئی 2001ء) فلسطینی سیاست دان تھے، جو یروشلم کے حسینی خاندان سے تعلق رکھتے تھے اور مشرقی یروشلم میں سب سے نمایاں فلسطینی شخصیت تھے۔ ان کے بارے میں اردو ویکیپیڈیا میں کوئی مضمون نہیں ہے؛ یہ صفحہ انگریزی اور عربی مضامین کی بنیاد پر لکھا گیا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en} {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ بغداد میں پیدا ہوئے، جہاں ان کے والد جلاوطنی میں تھے۔ وہ 1948ء میں یروشلم کے محاصرے کے دوران مقامی عرب افواج کے کمانڈر عبد القادر الحسینی کے بیٹے اور یروشلم کے سابق میئر موسیٰ کاظم پاشا الحسینی کے پوتے تھے۔ انہوں نے قاہرہ، بغداد اور دمشق میں تعلیم پائی اور 1959ء میں فلسطینی طلبہ کی جنرل یونین کے بانی ارکان میں شامل ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیاسی زندگی",
     "markdown": "انہوں نے تنظیم آزادی فلسطین کے قیام پر یروشلم میں اس کے شعبۂ تنظیمِ عوام کے نائب منیجر کے طور پر کام کیا، دمشق کے ملٹری کالج سے تربیت پائی اور 1967ء میں فلسطینی لبریشن آرمی میں شامل ہوئے۔ 1979ء میں انہوں نے عرب اسٹڈیز سوسائٹی قائم کی، اور 1982ء میں یروشلم کی سپریم مسلم کونسل کے رکن بنے۔ اسرائیل نے انہیں بار بار نظر بند اور شہر بدر کیا اور 1987ء سے 1989ء کے درمیان کئی بار قید کیا۔ بعد میں وہ فلسطینی ترجمان، میڈرڈ کانفرنس 1991ء کے وفد کے مشیر، مغربی کنارے میں فتح کے سربراہ اور فلسطینی اتھارٹی کے وزیر برائے یروشلم امور رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "31 مئی 2001ء کو کویت میں، جہاں وہ کویت اور تنظیم کے درمیان ٹوٹے تعلقات جوڑنے کی کوشش کر رہے تھے، دل کے دورے سے ان کا انتقال ہوا۔ انہیں یروشلم کی خاتونیہ میں خاندانی مقبرے میں دفن کیا گیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-faisal-husseini-en}"
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     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ دیے گئے متعین ماخذ، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مضمون کی ہر نظرثانی تاریخ کے ساتھ ہو، اور بتائے کہ کس ماخذ کی بنیاد پر کون سی بات بدلی گئی۔"
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