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  "ar": "محمد عبد الحليم سعيد",
  "en": "Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem",
  "ur": "محمد عبد الحلیم سعید"
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  "ar": "عالم مصري في الدراسات القرآنية، أستاذ كرسي الملك فهد للدراسات الإسلامية في مدرسة الدراسات الشرقية والإفريقية ⁦(سواس)⁩ بلندن ورئيس تحرير «مجلة الدراسات القرآنية». حفظ القرآن في طفولته في قرية الأسدية بمحافظة الشرقية، وتعلّم في الأزهر ودار العلوم ثم نال الدكتوراه من كامبريدج، ويدرّس في سواس منذ 1971. نشر ترجمته للقرآن لدى مطبعة جامعة أكسفورد سنة 2004، ونال وسام الإمبراطورية البريطانية سنة 2008.",
  "en": "Egyptian scholar of Qur'anic studies, King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies at SOAS, University of London, and editor of the Journal of Qur'anic Studies. He memorised the Qur'an in childhood in the village of al-Isdiyya in Sharqia, studied at Al-Azhar and Dar al-Ulum and took his PhD at Cambridge, and has lectured at SOAS since 1971. Oxford University Press published his translation, The Qur'an: A New Translation, in 2004; he was appointed OBE in 2008.",
  "ur": "مصری عالمِ مطالعاتِ قرآن، سواس ⁦(یونیورسٹی آف لندن)⁩ میں اسلامیات کے کنگ فہد پروفیسر اور «جرنل آف قرآنک اسٹڈیز» کے مدیر۔ انہوں نے بچپن میں شرقیہ کے گاؤں الاسدیہ میں قرآن حفظ کیا، الازہر اور دار العلوم میں تعلیم پائی اور کیمبرج سے پی ایچ ڈی کی، اور 1971ء سے سواس میں تدریس کر رہے ہیں۔ آکسفورڈ یونیورسٹی پریس نے ان کا ترجمۂ قرآن 2004ء میں شائع کیا؛ 2008ء میں انہیں او بی ای مقرر کیا گیا۔"
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   "note": "Birth year debated. Wikidata gives 1930 at year precision, referenced to the Virtual International Authority File, and a 2026 journal study of his translation also gives 1930; the current English biography gives 1933 (its lead carries an uncited day-form), and the Arabic biography gives only 'the 1930s'. The queue's 1938 is attested in no source reached. The 1930 reading is followed and the 1933 reading preserved. He was born at al-Isdiyya, a village in Abu Hammad, Sharqia; neither place has a place entity, so no born_in edge is written. A bare 1930 spans the Hijri years 1348–1349, so no Hijri year is recorded.",
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   "note": "Birth year debated. Wikidata gives 1930 at year precision, referenced to the Virtual International Authority File, and a 2026 journal study of his translation also gives 1930; the current English biography gives 1933 (its lead carries an uncited day-form), and the Arabic biography gives only 'the 1930s'. The queue's 1938 is attested in no source reached. The 1930 reading is followed and the 1933 reading preserved. He was born at al-Isdiyya, a village in Abu Hammad, Sharqia; neither place has a place entity, so no born_in edge is written. A bare 1930 spans the Hijri years 1348–1349, so no Hijri year is recorded.",
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    "note": "Islam is attested for Abdel Haleem himself as documented practice, with no school named. He memorised the Qur'an in childhood at his village kuttab, was formed at the Azhar institute in Zagazig and at Dar al-Ulum, Cairo, and has spent his career teaching and translating the Qur'an at Cambridge and SOAS; Wikidata's single structured value gives Islam. An Azhar formation is an education and a professorship is an office — neither names his own school, and no source reached does. The settlement is the documented-practice-without-a-school configuration, unknown.",
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