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  "ar": "إبراهيم بابنجيدا",
  "en": "Ibrahim Babangida",
  "ur": "ابراہیم بابانگیدا"
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  "ar": "جنرال وسياسي نيجيري (وُلد 1941) من مينا، حكم نيجيريا رئيسا عسكريا من انقلاب 27 أغسطس 1985 الذي أطاح ببخاري حتى تنحّيه في أغسطس 1993؛ في عهده انضمت نيجيريا إلى منظمة التعاون الإسلامي سنة 1986، وألغى انتخابات 12 يونيو 1993 التي فاز فيها ظاهريا ماشود أبيولا، فأثار أزمة الجمهورية الثالثة. تلقى في صباه تعليما إسلاميا قبل المدرسة الابتدائية.",
  "en": "Nigerian general and politician (born 1941) from Minna who ruled Nigeria as military president from the coup of 27 August 1985 that overthrew Buhari until he stepped aside in August 1993. Under him Nigeria joined the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in 1986, and he annulled the 12 June 1993 election apparently won by Moshood Abiola, precipitating the Third Republic crisis. As a boy he received early Islamic education before primary school.",
  "ur": "نائجریائی جرنیل و سیاست دان (پیدائش 1941ء)، منا سے تعلق؛ 27 اگست 1985 کی بغاوت میں بوحاری کو ہٹا کر فوجی صدر بنے اور اگست 1993 میں عہدہ چھوڑنے تک حکمران رہے؛ ان کے دور میں نائجریا 1986 میں اسلامی تعاون تنظیم کا رکن بنا، اور انھوں نے 12 جون 1993 کے انتخابات منسوخ کیے جن میں مشود ابیولا بظاہر کامیاب ہوئے تھے۔ بچپن میں پرائمری اسکول سے قبل اسلامی تعلیم حاصل کی۔"
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  "latest": 1941.6270696865463
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   "edtf": "1941-08-17",
   "hijri": "1360",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 17 August 1941 in Minna; the Arabic article files him under births of 1360 AH, the Hijri year used here.",
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "إبراهيم بابانغيدا",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Ibrahim Babangida",
    "kind": "alternate"
   }
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  "gender": "male",
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   "general",
   "politician"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1941-08-17",
   "hijri": "1360",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 17 August 1941 in Minna; the Arabic article files him under births of 1360 AH, the Hijri year used here.",
   "sources": [
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Thinner than the Khan configuration, unflagged. No consulted text attests Babangida personally as a Muslim: the English article records only that he 'received early Islamic education' before primary school (formation, which never counts) and his government's 1986 decision to take Nigeria into the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (a state act, welcomed in the Muslim-majority north — politics, not affiliation). The Arabic stub's infobox religion field is blank — it carries no religion value at all — and the Arabic and Urdu articles file him under 'Nigerian Muslims' (category filings); Wikidata gives a single structured value, Islam. No source used names a school or madhhab, so under the two-source rule the value stays unknown.",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Ibrahim Babangida' (revision 1382112702, the article's revision of 26 October 2026), Arabic Wikipedia 'إبراهيم بابنجيدا' (revision 74901643), Urdu Wikipedia 'ابراہیم بابانگیدا' (revision 11615275) and Wikidata item Q333415 (item revision 2557927307), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn, and the Wikidata item revision was read from the API itself (its date is internally coherent). Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (babangida), by Arabic label, by biography and by the QID route across data/person/ — no earlier record exists, and the Arabic label matches no existing record's label. No place entity exists for Minna, so no born_in edge is written; his successor_of edge to Muhammadu Buhari (1985) is written in his own record; he was himself succeeded by the interim head of state Ernest Shonekan, who has no person record.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والمسيرة العسكرية",
     "markdown": "وُلد بابانغيدا في مينا في 17 أغسطس 1941، وتلقى تعليما إسلاميا مبكرا قبل التحاقه بالمدرسة الابتدائية (1950–1956)، كما تذكر المقالة الإنجليزية. {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en} التحق بالجيش سنة 1962 وقاتل في الحرب الأهلية النيجيرية وتدرّج في الرتب حتى صار رئيس أركان الجيش (1984–1985). {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرئاسة العسكرية",
     "markdown": "في 27 أغسطس 1985 قاد بابانغيدا انقلابا أطاح ببخاري وصار رئيسا عسكريا لنيجيريا. {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en} وفي سنة 1986 انضمت نيجيريا في عهده إلى منظمة التعاون الإسلامي، وهو قرار رحّب به الشمال ذو الأغلبية المسلمة وانتقده غير المسلمين بوصفه أجندة أسلمة لبلد علماني، وأدى إلى إقالة نائبه إبيتو أوكيوي الذي عارضه. {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أزمة 1993 والتنحّي",
     "markdown": "أشرف نظام بابانغيدا على انتخابات 12 يونيو 1993 التي بدا أن ماشود أبيولا فاز فيها، ثم ألغى نتائجها، فاندلعت أزمة الجمهورية الثالثة، وتنحّى في 26 أغسطس 1993 مسلّما السلطة لحكومة مؤقتة برئاسة إرنست شونيكان. {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة عن الدين في المصادر",
     "markdown": "لا تنسب المصادر المستعملة هنا انتماء دينيا شخصيا لبابانغيدا: فالمقالة الإنجليزية تذكر تعليمه الإسلامي المبكر فقط (وهو تكوين لا انتماء)، وحقل الديانة في قالب المقالة العربية فارغ، وتصنّفه المقالتان العربية والأردية ضمن «مسلمي نيجيريا»، ويعطي ويكي بيانات قيمة واحدة هي «الإسلام». ولا يُسمّي أي مصدر مذهبا له، فبقيت قيمة دينه غير مصنّفة (unknown). {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en} {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-ar} {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-ur} {cite:wikidata-ibrahim-babangida}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
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   "updated": "2026-10-26"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and military career",
     "markdown": "Babangida was born in Minna on 17 August 1941 and received early Islamic education before attending primary school from 1950 to 1956, as the English article records. {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en} He joined the army in 1962, fought in the Nigerian Civil War and rose through the ranks to become Chief of Army Staff (1984–1985). {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Military presidency",
     "markdown": "On 27 August 1985 Babangida led the coup that overthrew Buhari and became Nigeria's military president. {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en} In 1986 Nigeria under him joined the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, a move welcomed in the Muslim-majority north and criticised by non-Muslims as an Islamisation agenda for a secular country; his deputy Ebitu Ukiwe, who opposed the decision, was removed. {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The 1993 crisis and stepping aside",
     "markdown": "Babangida's regime supervised the election of 12 June 1993, which Moshood Abiola appeared to have won, and then annulled its results; the ensuing Third Republic crisis ended with Babangida stepping aside on 26 August 1993, handing power to an interim government under Ernest Shonekan. {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "A note on religion in the sources",
     "markdown": "The sources used here attribute no personal religious affiliation to Babangida: the English article records only his early Islamic education (formation, not affiliation), the Arabic stub's infobox religion field is blank, the Arabic and Urdu articles file him under \"Nigerian Muslims\", and Wikidata gives a single value, Islam. No source names a school for him, so his faith value is left unclassified (unknown). {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en} {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-ar} {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-ur} {cite:wikidata-ibrahim-babangida}"
    },
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "زندگی و اقتدار",
     "markdown": "انگریزی مقالے کے مطابق انھوں نے پرائمری اسکول سے قبل ابتدائی اسلامی تعلیم حاصل کی، 1962 میں فوج میں شامل ہوئے اور 1984–1985 میں چیف آف آرمی اسٹاف بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en} ان کے دور میں نائجریا 1986 میں اسلامی تعاون تنظیم کا رکن بنا — ایک متنازع فیصلہ — اور انھوں نے 12 جون 1993 کے انتخابات منسوخ کیے جن میں مشود ابیولا بظاہر کامیاب ہوئے تھے؛ بالآخر 26 اگست 1993 کو عہدہ چھوڑ دیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-en}\n\nکوئی ماخذ ان کا دینی مکتب یا ذاتی وابستگی بیان نہیں کرتا، اس لیے سجل میں ان کا دین غیر مصنف (unknown) رکھا گیا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-ibrahim-babangida-ar} {cite:wikidata-ibrahim-babangida}"
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     "heading": "ماخذ",
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