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  "ar": "محمود شلتوت",
  "en": "Mahmud Shaltut"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "شيخ الأزهر الأسبق (ت. 1383هـ/1963م)، وُلد بمنية منصور في البحيرة، وتولى مشيخة الأزهر سنة 1378هـ، وأسس مشروع مجمع البحوث الإسلامية؛ من كتبه «الإسلام عقيدة وشريعة» الذي يقوم عليه هذا الإدخال. التواريخ من مقدمة محمد عمارة للكتاب ولم تُراجع على مصدر ثانٍ بعد.",
  "en": "Former Grand Imam of al-Azhar (d. 1383 AH / 1963 CE), born in Munyat Mansur in Beheira; he held the Grand Imamate from 1378 AH and championed the Islamic Research Academy; his book Islam, Creed and Law is the source for this card. Dates come from Muhammad Imara's introduction and are not yet checked against a second source."
 },
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 ],
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  "development-of-law-theology-institutions"
 ],
 "data": {
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   "scholar",
   "jurist"
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "sources": [
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  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Islam Aqida wa Shari'a, Academy 2018, pp. 11-19 (PDF pagination) introduction by Muhammad Imara",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "azhar-academy-al-islam-aqida-wa-shariah"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); biographical dates from the book's introduction, needs_source: second source for birth and Grand Imam dates"
  }
 },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نظرة عامة",
     "markdown": "شيخ الأزهر الأسبق (ت 1383هـ/1963م)؛ وُلد بمنية منصور في البحيرة، وتولى مشيخة الأزهر سنة 1378هـ، وأسس مشروع مجمع البحوث الإسلامية؛ من كتبه «الإسلام عقيدة وشريعة» الذي يقوم عليه هذا الإدخال. والتواريخ مأخوذة من مقدمة محمد عمارة للكتاب ولم تُراجع على مصدر ثانٍ بعد."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/mahmud-shaltut",
    "lang": "ar"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Former shaykh of al-Azhar (d. 1383/1963); born at Minyat Mansur in the Buhayra, he took the Azhar's headship in 1378 AH and founded the Islamic Research Academy project; among his books is al-Islam 'Aqida wa-Shari'a, on which this entry rests. The dates come from Muhammad 'Imara's introduction to the book and have not yet been checked against a second source."
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/mahmud-shaltut",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "جائزہ",
     "markdown": "ازہر کے سابق شیخ (وفات 1383ھ/1963ء)؛ بحیرہ میں منیۃ منصور میں پیدا ہوئے، 1378ھ میں مشیختِ ازہر سنبھالی اور مجمع البحوث الاسلامیہ کا منصوبہ قائم کیا؛ ان کی کتابوں میں «الاسلام عقیدۃ وشریعۃ» ہے جس پر یہ اندراج استوار ہے۔ تاریخیں محمد عمارة کے کتاب کے پیش لفظ سے ہیں اور ابھی دوسرے ماخذ پر نظرثانی نہیں ہوئیں۔"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/mahmud-shaltut",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-21",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad-mustafa-al-maraghi",
   "type": "influenced_by",
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   "to": "person/wahba-zuhayli",
   "type": "teacher_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "The Arabic article's list of his teachers in Egypt names Shaykh al-Azhar Mahmud Shaltut. The edge is written here, in the student's record, only.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-wahba-zuhayli-ar"
   ]
  }
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  "person/muhammad-abduh",
  "person/muhammad-abu-zahra",
  "place/alexandria",
  "place/cairo",
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  "person/wahba-zuhayli",
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 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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