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  "ar": "محمد العزيز بوعتور",
  "en": "Mohammed Aziz Bouattour",
  "ur": "محمد عزیز بوعتور"
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  "ar": "سياسي تونسي (1825–1907)، تعلّم في الزيتونة وصعد في ديوان الإنشاء ووزارة المالية حتى صار وزير القلم، ثم عُيّن وزيرًا أكبر سنة 1882 فبقي في المنصب حتى وفاته، وهو أول تونسي الأصل يتولى الوزارة الكبرى، وأدار الحكومة شكليًا تحت الحماية الفرنسية متعاونًا مع المقيم العام بول كامبون. وهو جدّ الشيخ محمد الطاهر بن عاشور من جهة الأم.",
  "en": "Tunisian statesman (1825–1907), educated at the Zaytuna, who rose through the state chancellery and the finance administration to become Minister of the Pen, and was appointed grand vizier in 1882, holding the post until his death — the first ethnic Tunisian to head the government, serving under the French protectorate alongside Resident General Paul Cambon. He was the maternal grandfather of the scholar Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur.",
  "ur": "تونسی سیاست دان (1825–1907)، جامع زیتونہ کے فارغ التحصیل، جو ریاستی چانسلری اور محکمۂ مالیات سے ترقی کر کے وزیرِ قلم بنے، پھر 1882ء میں وزیرِ اعظم مقرر ہوئے اور وفات تک اس عہدے پر رہے — وہ حکومت کی سربراہی کرنے والے پہلے نسلی تونسی تھے اور فرانسیسی تحفظ کے دور میں مقیمِ عام پال کمبون کے ساتھ کام کیا۔ وہ عالم محمد طاہر بن عاشور کے نانا تھے۔"
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   "note": "Born at Tunis in 1825, in the family home on the Rue du Pacha (the present Dar Ben Achour library), into a patrician family of Sfax origin (French and English biographies; Wikidata agrees). The bare year spans the Hijri years 1240–1241, so no hijri value is recorded.",
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   "note": "Died at La Marsa on 4 February 1907 according to the Arabic biography; the French and English biographies and Wikidata give the year 1907 only. 4 February 1907 falls in 1324 AH. La Marsa has no place entity on main, so no died_in edge is written; he was buried in the Tourbet el Bey mausoleum at Tunis.",
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    "note": "No source read names a religious school for Bouattour himself, and Wikidata carries no religion value for him. His schooling at the Zaytuna from 1839 under named scholars is education, and his chancellery, finance and vizieral posts are offices; neither counts.",
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   "source": "French, English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia biographies of Mohammed Aziz Bouattour (Q3319007) and the Wikidata item, read in full; every revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session and asserted, and the QID was grounded through the French article's page properties. The French and English biographies date his Ministry of the Pen to 26 November 1864, while the Arabic biography's chronology differs (finance director 1860, finance minister 1866, Minister of the Pen 1878); both chronologies are preserved in the prose. Existence checks by name fragments (bouattour, بوعتور) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record for this man. His kinship to Ibn Ashur runs through his daughter, who has no record, so no relation edge is written.",
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