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  "en": "Malik Kafur",
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  "ar": "مالك كافور ⁦(ت 1316)⁩ خصيّ من أصل هندوسي اشتراه خواجة في كمبهات وأُسر في غزو غوجارات سنة 1299 فأسلم، وصار قائد سلطان دهلي علاء الدين الخلجي الذي صدّ به المغول وفتح الدكن، ثم نائبه ⁦(الوكيل)⁩ بعد 1315، إلى أن اغتاله حراس السلطان القدامى في فبراير 1316.",
  "en": "Malik Kafur (died 1316) was a eunuch of Hindu descent, a slave of a Khwaja of Khambhat, who was captured in the 1299 invasion of Gujarat and converted to Islam; he became the general of the Delhi sultan Alauddin Khalji, defeating the Mongols and conquering in the Deccan, then his viceroy (na'ib) from 1315, until the sultan's former bodyguards assassinated him in February 1316.",
  "ur": "ملک کافور ⁦(وفات 1316ء)⁩ ہندو نژاد خواجہ سرا غلام تھے جو کھمبات کے ایک خواجہ کے پاس تھے، 1299ء میں گجرات کی مہم میں پکڑے گئے اور اسلام قبول کیا؛ وہ دہلی کے سلطان علاؤ الدین خلجی کے سپہ سالار بنے، منگولوں کو شکست دی اور دکن میں فتوحات کیں، پھر 1315ء سے نائب رہے، یہاں تک کہ فروری 1316ء میں سلطان کے پرانے محافظوں نے انہیں قتل کر دیا۔"
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   "edtf": "1316-02",
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   "status": "debated",
   "note": "The English article gives his death as circa 11 February 1316, so the month only is built; the Arabic article and Wikidata give the year 1316. No text read asserts a Hijri year for his death, so none is built.",
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    "kind": "full",
    "value": "Malik Kafur"
   },
   {
    "kind": "laqab",
    "value": "Taj al-Din Izz al-Dawla"
   },
   {
    "kind": "alternate",
    "value": "Hazar-Dinari"
   },
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    "kind": "alternate",
    "value": "Malik Na'ib"
   }
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  "gender": "male",
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   "edtf": "1316-02",
   "precision": "month",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "The English article gives his death as circa 11 February 1316, so the month only is built; the Arabic article and Wikidata give the year 1316. No text read asserts a Hijri year for his death, so none is built.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-malik-kafur-en",
    "source/wikipedia-malik-kafur-ar",
    "source/wikidata-malik-kafur"
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "The English article describes him as of Hindu descent and states that he converted to Islam after his capture in the 1299 invasion of Gujarat, and the Urdu article likewise states that the slave Kafur accepted Islam. That is an attested conversion with no legal school and no order named for him in any text read, so under the founder's rules of 1 November 2026 his faith is recorded as unknown, with the conversion stated here in full. Wikidata's religion statement is Islam in general - structured data, which settles nothing.",
    "sources": [
     "source/wikipedia-malik-kafur-en",
     "source/wikipedia-malik-kafur-ur",
     "source/wikidata-malik-kafur"
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   "source/wikipedia-malik-kafur-ar",
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   "source/wikidata-malik-kafur"
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Built from the English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles and the Wikidata item, all fetched live on 2 November 2026; revision IDs are recorded in the source records.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "مالك كافور ⁦(ت 1316)⁩ هو العبد القائد ونائب سلطان دهلي علاء الدين الخلجي {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ar}. لا تعطي المقالة الإنجليزية سنة مولد له، لذا لا يُبنى في هذا السجل مولد {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. كان من أصل هندوسي وأسلم بعد أسره سنة 1299، وإسلامه تذكره المقالة الأردية أيضًا {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en} {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ur}. ولما لم يُسمِّ أي نص مذهبًا أو طريقة له، يُسجَّل دينه مجهولًا مع إثبات إسلامه كاملًا {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عبد الألف دينار",
     "markdown": "كان خصيًا عبدًا لخواجة في كمبهات، قيل إنه اشتُري بألف دينار فجاءه لقبه هزار ديناري {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. وأثناء غزو جيش دهلي لغوجارات سنة 1299 أسره نصرت خان في كمبهات {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ar}. قُدّم إلى علاء الدين في دهلي وارتقى في خدمته {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حملات الجنوب",
     "markdown": "بصفته قائد علاء الدين هزم الغزاة المغول سنة 1306 {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ar}. ثم قاد حملات السلطنة الكبرى إلى الجنوب: إلى ديوگيري سنة 1308، وورنگل سنة 1310، ودواراسامودرا سنة 1311، وبلاد البانديا في أقصى الجنوب {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. عُيّن حاكمًا على ديوگيري من 1313 إلى 1315 {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "النيابة والوفاة",
     "markdown": "استُدعي إلى دهلي فصار نائب السلطنة سنة 1315 {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. وبعد أسابيع من وفاة علاء الدين اغتاله في دهلي حراس السلطان الراحل السابقون، نحو 11 فبراير 1316 {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Malik Kafur (died 1316) was the slave-general and viceroy of Alauddin Khalji, sultan of Delhi {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. The English article gives no birth year for him, and none is built in this record {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. He was of Hindu descent and converted to Islam after his capture in 1299, a conversion the Urdu article also states {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en} {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ur}. Because no text names a legal school or an order for him, his faith is recorded as unknown, with the conversion stated in full {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The thousand-dinar slave",
     "markdown": "He was a eunuch slave of a Khwaja of Khambhat, said to have been bought for a thousand dinars, from which came his epithet Hazar-Dinari {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. During the Delhi army's invasion of Gujarat in 1299, Nusrat Khan captured him at Khambhat {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ar}. He was presented to Alauddin at Delhi and rose in the sultan's service {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The southern campaigns",
     "markdown": "As Alauddin's commander he defeated the Mongol invaders in 1306 {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ar}. He then led the sultanate's great expeditions into the south — against Devagiri in 1308, Warangal in 1310, Dwarasamudra in 1311 and the Pandya country in the far south {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. He was made governor of Devagiri from 1313 to 1315 {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Viceroy and death",
     "markdown": "Recalled to Delhi, he became na'ib — viceroy — of the sultanate in 1315 {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. Within weeks of Alauddin's death he was assassinated at Delhi by the late sultan's former bodyguards, about 11 February 1316 {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
    }
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   "updated": "2026-11-02"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ملک کافور (وفات 1316ء) دہلی کے سلطان علاؤ الدین خلجی کے غلام سپہ سالار اور نائب تھے {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ur}. انگریزی مقالہ ان کی کوئی سنِ پیدائش نہیں دیتا، اس لیے اس ریکارڈ میں پیدائش کا خانہ نہیں بنایا گیا {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. وہ ہندو نژاد تھے اور 1299ء میں گرفتاری کے بعد اسلام قبول کیا، جیسا کہ اردو مقالہ صراحتاً کہتا ہے {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ur}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "خدمات اور وفات",
     "markdown": "وہ کھمبات کے ایک خواجہ کے غلام تھے اور 1299ء میں گجرات کی مہم میں نصرت خان کے ہاتھوں پکڑے گئے {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}. علاؤ الدین کے سپہ سالار کی حیثیت سے انہوں نے 1306ء میں منگولوں کو شکست دی اور جنوب کی مہمات گولکنڈا تک کیں {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-ur}. 1315ء میں وہ سلطنت کے نائب بنے، اور علاؤ الدین کی وفات کے چند ہفتوں بعد، تقریباً 11 فروری 1316ء کو، دہلی میں سابق بادشاہی محافظوں نے انہیں قتل کر دیا {cite:wikipedia-malik-kafur-en}."
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