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 "label": {
  "ar": "جلال طالباني",
  "en": "Jalal Talabani",
  "ur": "جلال طالبانی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جلال طالباني (1933 – 3 أكتوبر 2017)، سياسي كردي عراقي، مؤسس الاتحاد الوطني الكردستاني وقائده، وأول رئيس غير عربي لجمهورية العراق، إذ تولى الرئاسة من 2005 إلى 2014 بعد عقود من النضال السياسي والعسكري من أجل حقوق الأكراد. عُرف بلقب «مام جلال» أي العم جلال، واشتهر بدور الوسيط الجامع بين الفرقاء العراقيين حتى وفاته في برلين سنة 2017.",
  "en": "Jalal Talabani (1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician, founder and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the first non-Arab president of the Republic of Iraq, holding the presidency from 2005 to 2014 after decades of political and military struggle for Kurdish rights. Known as 'Mam Jalal' — Uncle Jalal — he was noted as a unifying mediator among Iraq's factions until his death at Berlin in 2017.",
  "ur": "جلال طالبانی (1933ء – 3 اکتوبر 2017ء) ایک عراقی کرد سیاست دان، پٹریاٹک یونین آف کردستان کے بانی و رہنما اور جمہوریۂ عراق کے پہلے غیر عرب صدر تھے؛ انہوں نے کرد حقوق کی دہائیوں کی سیاسی و عسکری جدوجہد کے بعد 2005ء سے 2014ء تک صدارت سنبھالی۔ وہ «مام جلال» یعنی چچا جلال کے لقب سے معروف تھے اور 2017ء میں برلن میں وفات تک عراقی دھڑوں کے درمیان مصالحتی واسطے کے طور پر جانے جاتے تھے۔"
 },
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1932.9999247075573,
  "latest": 2017.757311922869
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1933",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born at Kelkan in the Kingdom of Iraq in 1933; the year agrees across all sources. The day is NOT carried: the Arabic article and Wikidata give 12 November 1933, but the English article deliberately gives the year only and carries an editorial warning that the 12 November date was added by a banned account that inserted other fictitious dates and has spread from Wikipedia. No hijri key is carried, because no source the record follows gives a day or a consistent Hijri pairing from which one could be derived. Kelkan has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-jalal-talabani-en",
    "source/wikipedia-jalal-talabani-ar",
    "source/wikidata-jalal-talabani"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "2017-10-03",
   "hijri": "1439",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Berlin, Germany, on 3 October 2017, of a cerebral haemorrhage; the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. Berlin has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written; he was buried at Dabashan by Sulaymaniyah, which likewise has no entity. The Hijri year (1439) is derived from the Gregorian date.",
   "sources": [
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "جلال حسام الدين نور الله نوري الطالباني",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Jalal Husamuddin Nurallah Nuri al-Talabani",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "جەلال تاڵەبانی",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "مام جلال",
    "kind": "laqab"
   },
   {
    "value": "Mam Jalal",
    "kind": "laqab"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "politician"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1933",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born at Kelkan in the Kingdom of Iraq in 1933; the year agrees across all sources. The day is NOT carried: the Arabic article and Wikidata give 12 November 1933, but the English article deliberately gives the year only and carries an editorial warning that the 12 November date was added by a banned account that inserted other fictitious dates and has spread from Wikipedia. No hijri key is carried, because no source the record follows gives a day or a consistent Hijri pairing from which one could be derived. Kelkan has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikipedia-jalal-talabani-ar",
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "2017-10-03",
   "hijri": "1439",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died at Berlin, Germany, on 3 October 2017, of a cerebral haemorrhage; the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. Berlin has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written; he was buried at Dabashan by Sulaymaniyah, which likewise has no entity. The Hijri year (1439) is derived from the Gregorian date.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikipedia-jalal-talabani-ar",
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED (Wikidata-generic-alone configuration, as Nizar Qabbani). No text or infobox names his school. Wikidata gives only Islam in general. The English and Arabic articles file him under 'Iraqi Sunni Muslims' (the Arabic also under 'Iraqi Kurdish Muslims'), category filings, which never count. His public religious observance as a Kurdish leader is practice, which never counts. Recorded unknown with exactly this stated.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English and Arabic Wikipedia articles on Jalal Talabani, each fetched by its recorded revision id (EN 1378210097, AR 76810758) with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q57306 (item revision 2557948402, read twice with identical revision and claims), the QID grounded through the English article's pageprops and confirmed by the Arabic article's pageprops. No Urdu Wikipedia article on him exists; the Urdu prose is written from the English and Arabic articles and says so in it. Existence checks by Latin and Arabic fragments across data/person, by the grounded QID across all person files, and by biography found no prior record (reza-talabani is a different, earlier poet). No successor_of edge to Saddam Hussein is written in this record: his articles list Saddam Hussein (1979–2003) and Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer expressly as acting president between them, and al-Yawer has no record — the refused-succession configuration of the interim cases in earlier waves; the chain is prose only. The one presidential succession edge of this pair is written in Fuad Masum's record, where both articles attest it directly. No member_of edge is written for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (no group entity exists) and no ruler_of edge (no modern Iraq polity entity exists).",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "مسيرته",
     "markdown": "انضم طالباني إلى الحزب الديمقراطي الكردستاني شابًا، ثم انشق عنه فأسس الاتحاد الوطني الكردستاني سنة 1975، وقضى عقودًا بين السياسة والمنفى والكفاح المسلح من أجل حقوق الأكراد. بعد سقوط صدام حسين ترأس مجلس الحكم العراقي في نوفمبر 2003 وانتُخب رئيسًا في أبريل 2005، وبدأ ولايته الثانية في 22 أبريل 2006 أولَ رئيس منتخب بموجب الدستور الجديد. أثنى عليه المعلّقون وسيطًا جامِعًا بين الفرقاء العراقيين، وبقي في الرئاسة حتى 2014 فخلفه فؤاد معصوم. {cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-en} {cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي طالباني بنزيف دماغي في برلين في 3 أكتوبر 2017 ودُفن في دباشان قرب السليمانية. {cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-en} {cite:wikidata-jalal-talabani}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دينه",
     "markdown": "يُسجَّل دينه غير معروف. لا يسمّي نصّ ولا صندوق معلومات مذهبًا له؛ يعطي ويكي بيانات الإسلام عمومًا فحسب، وتصنّفه المقالتان ضمن «مسلمون سنة عراقيون»، وهو تصنيف ملفات لا يبلغ حدّ المصدرين المستقلين الذي يشترطه المتحف لتسمية مذهب.\n{cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-ar} {cite:wikidata-jalal-talabani}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/jalal-talabani",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-27"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "Talabani joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a young man, broke with it to found the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 1975, and spent decades between politics, exile and armed struggle for Kurdish rights. After the fall of Saddam Hussein he presided over the Iraqi Governing Council in November 2003 and was elected president in April 2005, beginning a second term on 22 April 2006 as the first president elected under the new constitution. Praised by obituarists as a mediator who brought Iraq's factions together, he served until 2014, when Fuad Masum succeeded him. {cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "Talabani died of a cerebral haemorrhage at Berlin on 3 October 2017 and was buried at Dabashan by Sulaymaniyah. {cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-en} {cite:wikidata-jalal-talabani}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Religion",
     "markdown": "His faith is recorded as unknown. No article text or infobox names his school; Wikidata gives only Islam in general, and the articles file him under \"Iraqi Sunni Muslims\", a category filing that does not meet the museum's two-source bar for naming a school. {cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-en} {cite:wikidata-jalal-talabani}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/jalal-talabani",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
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   "updated": "2026-10-27"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "مسيرت",
     "markdown": "طالبانی نوجوانی میں کردستان ڈیموکریٹک پارٹی میں شامل ہوئے، پھر اس سے الگ ہو کر 1975ء میں پٹریاٹک یونین آف کردستان بنائی، اور کرد حقوق کے لیے دہائیوں تک سیاست، جلاوطنی اور مسلح جدوجہد میں گزارے۔ صدام حسین کے زوال کے بعد وہ نومبر 2003ء میں عراقی گورننگ کونسل کے صدر رہے اور اپریل 2005ء میں صدر منتخب ہوئے؛ 22 اپریل 2006ء کو نئے آئین کے تحت منتخب ہونے والے پہلے صدر کی حیثیت سے ان کی دوسری مدت شروع ہوئی۔ مبصرین نے انہیں عراقی دھڑوں کو جوڑنے والا مصالح کار قرار دیا؛ وہ 2014ء تک صدر رہے اور فؤاد معصوم ان کے جانشین ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "طالبانی 3 اکتوبر 2017ء کو برلن میں دماغی خون ریزی سے وفات پا گئے اور سلیمانیہ کے قریب دباشان میں دفن ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-en} {cite:wikidata-jalal-talabani}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مذہب",
     "markdown": "ان کا مذہب نامعلوم درج ہے۔ کوئی مقالہ اپنے متن یا معلوماتی خانے میں ان کا مکتب نہیں بتاتا؛ ویکی ڈیٹا صرف اسلام عمومی دیتا ہے، اور مقالے انہیں «عراقی سنی مسلمان» کے زمرے میں رکھتے ہیں، جو زمرہ بندی ہے اور مکتب کا نام لینے کے لیے عجائب گھر کی دو مصدروں کی شرط پوری نہیں کرتی۔\n{cite:wikipedia-jalal-talabani-ar} {cite:wikidata-jalal-talabani}"
    }
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  "person/dahiru-bauchi",
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  "person/hussain-muhammad-ershad",
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  "person/mir-hazar-khan-khoso",
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