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  "ar": "غلام مرتضى سيد",
  "en": "G. M. Syed",
  "ur": "جی ایم سید"
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  "ar": "سياسي وأديب سندي (1904–1995) من سنّ: بدأ في حركة الخلافة وهو ابن ست عشرة سنة، وصار رئيس رابطة السند الإسلامية 1943 ثم انشق عن الرابطة، فأسس حركات «جيئي سندھ» المنادية باستقلال السند، وقضى نحو ثلاثين عاما بين السجن والإقامة الجبرية، وألّف أكثر من ستين كتابا في تاريخ السند وثقافتها ودينها.",
  "en": "Sindhi politician and writer (1904–1995) from Sann: he began in the Khilafat movement at sixteen, rose to president of the Sindh Muslim League in 1943, broke with the League, and founded the Jeay Sindh movements for a separate Sindhi homeland — spending some thirty years in prison or house arrest and writing more than sixty books on Sindh's history, culture and religion.",
  "ur": "سندھی سیاست دان اور ادیب (1904ء–1995ء) جن کا تعلق سن سے تھا: انھوں نے سولہ برس کی عمر میں تحریک خلافت سے آغاز کیا، 1943ء میں سندھ مسلم لیگ کے صدر بنے، پھر لیگ سے الگ ہو کر الگ سندھی وطن کے لیے جیئے سندھ تحریکوں کی بنیاد رکھی — تقریباً تیس برس قید و نظر بندی میں گزارے اور سندھ کی تاریخ، ثقافت اور مذہب پر ساٹھ سے زائد کتابیں لکھیں۔"
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  "latest": 1995.3146881865841
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give 17 January 1904, at Sann in what was then Karachi District of the Bombay Presidency, a son of Syed Mohammed Shah Kazmi — killed in a family feud on 1 November 1905, after which the boy was raised under the Court of Wards. The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. No born_in relation is written: no place entity exists for Sann.",
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   "note": "The English article's infobox and lead, the Arabic article's lead and Wikidata give 25 April 1995, at Karachi, where he died under house arrest — his house had been declared a sub-jail in January 1992 — aged ninety-one. A body sentence in the English article, citing Suranjan Das (2001), and the Arabic article's body give 26 April; that minority value rests on a single copied source and is recorded here as a variant. The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. No died_in relation is written: no place entity exists for Karachi.",
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    "value": "غلام مرتضى سيد",
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   "note": "The English article's infobox and lead, the Arabic article's lead and Wikidata give 25 April 1995, at Karachi, where he died under house arrest — his house had been declared a sub-jail in January 1992 — aged ninety-one. A body sentence in the English article, citing Suranjan Das (2001), and the Arabic article's body give 26 April; that minority value rests on a single copied source and is recorded here as a variant. The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. No died_in relation is written: no place entity exists for Karachi.",
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    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED: no source read names a school for him, and Wikidata's religion value is Islam in general (Q432), which never counts. The contested reading is Sufi: the English article describes his Sindhi nationalism as a blend with Communism and Sufism, records that he founded the Bazm-e-Soofia-e Sindh ('Assembly of the Sufis of Sindh') in 1966, and quotes Oskar Verkaaik's description of him as creating his own personal interpretation of Islam out of influences including classical Sufism and theosophy; the Urdu article likewise lists Sufism among his fields of interest. Writing on Sufism, interpreting Sufi poetry and founding a Sufi cultural assembly attest his thought, not initiation into or membership of an order: no text read attests a murshid, discipleship, ijaza or tariqa affiliation for him, and claims of hereditary succession to his family's spiritual seat, where his movement makes them, are headship, which never counts. Under the two-source rule and the doubt rule the value stays unknown, with the Sufi reading preserved here; a founder word accepting the Bazm-e-Soofia founding and his Sufi writings as attestation would settle sufi / documented.",
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   "source": "Built for the century-additions queue §B line 1562. Identity, dates and career from the English Wikipedia article 'G. M. Syed' (revision 1365424993 of 22 July 2026), the Arabic article 'غلام مرتضى سيد' (revision 75595247 of 19 June 2026), the Urdu article 'جی ایم سید' (revision 11283837 of 26 June 2026) and Wikidata item Q4698642 (revision 2561076679 of 26 October 2026), retrieved in full via the MediaWiki and Wikidata APIs on 31 October 2026. Existence checks before building: name greps for Ghulam Murtaza, Murtaza Syed and G M Syed across data/person on origin/main returned no record of this man, and the QID Q4698642 grep returned no hit. The one-day death-date variant (26 April in the Das-cited body text) is preserved in the died note. No relations are written: no member of his family has a person record in the graph, and his offices and party foundings are not relation edges. No place edges are written: Sann and Karachi have no place entities.",
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