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  "ar": "محمد هشام قباني",
  "en": "Hisham Kabbani",
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  "ar": "عالم وشيخ صوفي لبناني أمريكي (28 يناير 1945 – 4 ديسمبر 2024)، من أعلام الطريقة النقشبندية الحقانية في الولايات المتحدة؛ وُلد في بيروت ودرس الكيمياء في الجامعة الأميركية فيها والفقه في دمشق، وتزوّج ابنة مرشد الطريقة محمد ناظم الحقاني وحمل إجازة منه بتدريسها، وانتقل إلى الولايات المتحدة سنة 1990 فأسّس المجلس الإسلامي الأعلى في أمريكا، واشتهر بتحذيره من التطرف وبفتاويه وكتبه الكثيرة.",
  "en": "Lebanese-American Sufi scholar and shaykh (28 January 1945 – 4 December 2024) of the Naqshbandi Haqqani order in the United States. Born in Beirut, he studied chemistry at the American University of Beirut and fiqh in Damascus, married the daughter of the order's guide Nazim Al-Haqqani and holds his ijaza to teach the order, moved to the United States in 1990 and founded the Islamic Supreme Council of America; he was known for his warnings against violent extremism, his fatwas and his many books.",
  "ur": "لبنانی-امریکی صوفی عالم و شیخ (28 جنوری 1945 – 4 دسمبر 2024)، امریکا میں نقشبندی حقانی سلسلے کی نمایاں شخصیت؛ بیروت میں پیدا ہوئے، امریکی یونیورسٹی بیروت سے کیمسٹری اور دمشق سے فقہ پڑھی، شیخ ناظم الحقانی کی صاحبزادی سے شادی کی اور ان سے سلسلے کی تدریس کی اجازت پائی، 1990 میں امریکا منتقل ہو کر مجلسِ اعلیٰ اسلامی قائم کی۔"
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   "note": "Born 28 January 1945 in Beirut (English article's infobox and Wikidata; the Arabic article's categories pair his birth with the year 1364 AH).",
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    "note": "Two independent article texts name his Sufi affiliation personally. The English lead calls him a Sunni Sufi Muslim scholar belonging to the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order. The Arabic text calls him a scholar and Sufi shaykh from Lebanon and states that he holds an ijaza from Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani to teach the Naqshbandi order. No sunni segment is recorded: 'Sunni' is named only by the English lead and by the Urdu lead, which is a translation of the English article, so the two are one source family; the Arabic text names no school for him, and Wikidata gives his religion as Islam generically.",
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   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Hisham Kabbani, each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1362862600, AR 68836106, UR 12029123) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q2744388 (revision 2545053837). Existence checks by name fragments (Kabbani, قباني, کبانی) and by QID across data/person and data/source found no prior record. The student_of edge to Nazim Al-Haqqani, built in this same wave, rests on the Arabic article's statement that he holds Nazim's ijaza (licence) to teach the order — the documentary form of the murshid-disciple relation — together with the English article's statement that he relocated to the United States in 1990 upon Shaykh Nazim's order; his marriage to Nazim's daughter Naziha Adil is carried in prose, there being no in-law predicate. The lane queue lists him as living (born 1945); the sources record his death on 4 December 2024, and he is built as deceased.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمد هشام قباني (28 يناير 1945 – 4 ديسمبر 2024) عالم وشيخ صوفي من لبنان، من أعلام الطريقة النقشبندية الحقانية في الولايات المتحدة.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والمسيرة",
     "markdown": "وُلد قباني في بيروت سنة 1945.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} تخرّج باختصاص الكيمياء من الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت، وحصل على شهادة في الفقه الإسلامي من دمشق.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar} تزوّج من نزيهة عادل، الابنة الكبرى للشيخ محمد ناظم الحقاني مرشد الطريقة النقشبندية، وحمل إجازة منه بتدريس الطريقة المذكورة.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} وبأمر من الشيخ ناظم انتقل إلى الولايات المتحدة سنة 1990.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} أسّس المجلس الإسلامي الأعلى في أمريكا وترأّسه، وهو منظمة تنادي بالتسامح والاعتدال المتأصلَين في الإسلام.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشاطه ومواقفه",
     "markdown": "نصح قباني قادة المسلمين وعمل معهم لبناء مناعة المجتمعات ضد التطرف العنيف، فأُدرج في قائمة «الخمسمائة مسلم الأكثر تأثيرًا» سنة 2012.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} أثارت تصريحاته سنة 1999 بأن 80 بالمائة من المساجد تديرها أيديولوجيات متطرفة خلافًا حادًّا مع منظمات إسلامية أمريكية كبرى رأت أنها تضع المجتمع المسلم الأمريكي كله تحت شبهة غير مبررة، وقد خلص تحقيق لصحيفة واشنطن بوست إلى أن الرقم لم تؤكّده دراسة كمية محكّمة.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} وشارك سنة 2011 مع هميرة زياد في فتوى تستند إلى تفسير القرآن والحديث والتحليل اللغوي وتخلص إلى أن القرآن لا يُقرّ العنف الأسري، وكتب فتوى في مبادئ الجهاد تُرجمت إلى العربية ووزّعها الجيش الأمريكي في العراق.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} وألّف كتبًا كثيرة في التصوف والعقيدة والفقه، منها «طريقة النقشبندية الصوفية» و«موسوعة العقيدة والمعتقدات الإسلامية» و«فقه الإسلام».{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي قباني في 4 ديسمبر 2024 في فنتون بولاية ميشيغان، عن عمر 79 عامًا.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-hisham-kabbani}}"
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   "sections": [
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Hisham Kabbani (28 January 1945 – 4 December 2024) was a Lebanese-American Sunni Sufi Muslim scholar belonging to the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} The Arabic article calls him a scholar and Sufi shaykh from Lebanon.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and career",
     "markdown": "Kabbani was born in Beirut, Lebanon.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} He took a degree in chemistry at the American University of Beirut and a certificate in Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) from Damascus.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar} He married Hajjah Naziha Adil, the eldest child of Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani, the guide of the Naqshbandi order, and holds an ijaza from Nazim to teach the order.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} Upon the order of Shaykh Nazim, Kabbani relocated to the United States in 1990.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} He founded the Islamic Supreme Council of America and chaired it.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Activities and positions",
     "markdown": "Kabbani counselled and advised Muslim leaders to build community resilience against violent extremism, and in 2012 the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named him in The 500 Most Influential Muslims.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} His 1999 statement that 80 percent of mosques are run by \"extremist ideologies\" brought him into open conflict with major American Muslim organisations, which said his remarks could put the whole community under unjustified suspicion; a Washington Post fact check later concluded the figure had not been confirmed by any quantitative study.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} In 2011 he co-wrote, with Homayra Ziad, a fatwa determining that the Quran does not condone domestic violence, and his fatwa on the principles of jihad was translated into Arabic and distributed by the US military in Iraq.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} He and his wife directed disaster relief and humanitarian aid projects in Somalia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey, and he published many books on the Naqshbandi way, doctrine and spirituality, among them The Naqshbandi Sufi Way (1995) and the Encyclopedia of Islamic Doctrine and Beliefs (1998).{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "Kabbani died on 4 December 2024 at Fenton, Michigan, at the age of 79.{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-hisham-kabbani}}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ہشام کبانی (28 جنوری 1945 – 4 دسمبر 2024) ایک لبنانی-امریکی سنی صوفی عالم تھے جن کا تعلق نقشبندی حقانی صوفی سلسلے سے تھا۔{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ur}"
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    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور سفر",
     "markdown": "شیخ کبانی بیروت، لبنان میں پیدا ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ur} عربی مضمون کے مطابق انھوں نے امریکی یونیورسٹی بیروت سے کیمسٹری کی ڈگری اور دمشق سے فقہِ اسلامی کی سند حاصل کی، شیخ محمد ناظم الحقانی کی صاحبزادی سے شادی کی اور ان سے نقشبندی سلسلے کی تدریس کی اجازت پائی، اور امریکا میں مجلسِ اعلیٰ اسلامی کی بنیاد رکھی اور اس کی صدارت کی۔{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar} شیخ ناظم کے حکم پر شیخ کبانی 1990 میں امریکا منتقل ہو گئے۔{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سرگرمیاں اور وفات",
     "markdown": "کبانی نے مسلم رہنماؤں کو پرتشدد انتہا پسندی کے خلاف کمیونٹی کی مزاحمت بڑھانے کا مشورہ دیا، اور 2012 میں رائل اسلامک اسٹریٹجک اسٹڈیز سینٹر نے انھیں 500 بااثر ترین مسلمانوں میں شامل کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ur} ان کا 1999 کا یہ بیان کہ 80 فیصد مساجد انتہا پسند نظریات چلا رہے ہیں، بڑی امریکی مسلم تنظیموں سے تنازع کا سبب بنا، اور واشنگٹن پوسٹ کی جانچ نے اس اعداد کو کسی مقداری مطالعے سے غیر مصدقہ قرار دیا۔{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} انھوں نے 2011 میں گھریلو تشدد کی ممانعت پر فتویٰ بھی لکھا اور کئی کتب تصنیف کیں۔{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en} کبانی کی وفات 4 دسمبر 2024 کو فینٹن، مشی گن میں 79 برس کی عمر میں ہوئی۔{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-hisham-kabbani-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-hisham-kabbani}}"
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