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  "ar": "نظام الدين الكيانوي",
  "en": "Nizamuddin Kianwi",
  "ur": "نظام الدین کیانوی"
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  "ar": "صوفي نقشبندي من وادي نيلم، اتخذ مقامه في كيان شريف قرب أثمقام، وأخذ البيعة عن بير صديق مير، وانتشر أتباعه و خلفاؤه في كشمير؛ وما زال عرسه السنوي يقام في بابا نغري بوانغت حيث يقيم خلفاؤه من آل لارفي.",
  "en": "Naqshbandi Sufi of the Neelam Valley who made his seat at Kiyan Sharif near Athmuqam, took initiation from Pir Siddiq Mir, and spread a circle of khalifas across Kashmir; his annual urs is still kept at Baba Nagri, Wangat, by the Larvi family who descend from his khalifas.",
  "ur": "وادی نیلم کے نقشبندی صوفی بزرگ، جن کا آستانہ کیاں شریف ⁦(اتھمقام کے قریب)⁩ تھا؛ انھوں نے پیر صدیق میر سے بیعت حاصل کی اور کشمیر بھر میں خلفاء کا سلسلہ پھیلایا؛ ان کا سالانہ عرس آج بھی بابا نگری وانگت میں آلِ لاروی کے اہتمام سے منایا جاتا ہے۔"
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  "earliest": 1895.5782117360384,
  "latest": 1895.5809496430136
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   "edtf": "1895-07-31",
   "hijri": "1313",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Died at Kiyan Sharif in the Neelam Valley. His Urdu biography dual-dates the death 8 Safar 1313 AH, corresponding to 31 July 1895, and both calendars are stated there, so neither is derived here. The year is independently corroborated by the urs count at Baba Nagri, Wangat: Kashmir Uzma reported his 122nd urs in June 2017, which counts back to 1895.",
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    "value": "Nizamuddin Kianwi",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Khwaja Nizamuddin Kianvi",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Bawaji Sarkar",
    "kind": "laqab"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "died": {
   "edtf": "1895-07-31",
   "hijri": "1313",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Died at Kiyan Sharif in the Neelam Valley. His Urdu biography dual-dates the death 8 Safar 1313 AH, corresponding to 31 July 1895, and both calendars are stated there, so neither is derived here. The year is independently corroborated by the urs count at Baba Nagri, Wangat: Kashmir Uzma reported his 122nd urs in June 2017, which counts back to 1895.",
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  },
  "roles": [
   "sufi",
   "preacher"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sufi",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "Settled on two independent attestations of the man himself: his Urdu biography counts him among the elders of the Naqshbandiyya in Kashmir and records his initiation (bay'ah) and his years of retreat and preaching, and the Kashmir Uzma report of his 122nd urs styles him in its headline 'Nizamuddin Kianvi Naqshbandi'. The biography's lead also names Qadiri, Chishti and Suhrawardi connections in the inclusive phrasing conventional for Kashmiri saints; the value records the operative Naqshbandi affiliation. No madhhab is attested.",
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  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q31308185"
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Urdu Wikipedia biography of Khwaja Nizamuddin Kianwi (Q31308185), read in full, the Kashmir Uzma report of his 122nd urs (8 June 2017) and the Wikidata item, which carries no claims; the article's revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session and asserted before use, and the QID was grounded through the article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's 'Mian Nizamuddin Kianwi' is this saint of Kiyan Sharif — the only bearer of the name with a biographical record. He must not be conflated with his 20th-century namesake in the same tradition, the Gujjar leader Mian Nizam-ud-Din Larvi, whose family keeps this saint's urs at Wangat; press reports of the urs routinely merge the two men. Queue years rejected: no source gives the queue's 1830 birth, and its 1913 death appears to transpose the saint's 1313 AH death year; the biography's dual-dated 1895 death stands, corroborated by the urs count. No birth date is attested anywhere, so no born block is carried. Existence checks by name fragments (kianwi, kianvi, kiyanvi) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record. Relations written: none — his father Sultan al-Muluk, his pir Pir Siddiq Mir and his khalifas have no person records, and discipleship is not written as an edge in any case. No place edges: Kiyan Sharif, Athmuqam and Wangat have no place entities.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "نظام الدين الكيانوي ⁦(توفي في 31 يوليو 1895)⁩ صوفي نقشبندي من كيان شريف في وادي نيلم، يعرفه المريدون بلقب «باواجي سركار». تعدّه سيرته الأردية في أكابر النقشبندية في كشمير، وتروي بيعته وخلواته الطويلة في كيان شريف وأسفاره الدعوية في آسيا وإقامته خمس عشرة سنة في الحبشة.{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur} وتسمي من خلفائه بابا جي لارفي الذي رسّخ سلسلته في وانغت بوادي كشمير.{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur}\n\nتوفي في كيان شريف في 8 صفر 1313هـ، وهو التاريخ الذي تقرنه سيرته بـ31 يوليو 1895، تاركاً أربعة أبناء وضريحاً ما زال يقصده المريدون من آسيا وأوروبا.{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur} ويُقام عرسه كل يونيو في بابا نغري بوانغت برعاية آل لارفي؛ وقد وصفت صحيفة «كشمير عظمى» في تقريرها عن عرسه الثاني والعشرين بعد المئة في يونيو 2017 حشوداً من آلاف المريدين في الاحتفال الممتد ثلاثة أيام، وسمّته «نظام الدين الكيانوي النقشبندي».{cite:kashmir-uzma-nizamuddin-kianwi-urs}"
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   "sections": [
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Nizamuddin Kianwi (died 31 July 1895) was a Naqshbandi Sufi of Kiyan Sharif in the Neelam Valley, known to devotees as Bawaji Sarkar. His Urdu biography counts him among the elders of the Naqshbandiyya in Kashmir, records his initiation and his long retreats at Kiyan Sharif, and tells of preaching journeys across Asia and fifteen years in Abyssinia.{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur} Among his khalifas it names Baba Ji Larvi, through whom his line took root at Wangat in the Kashmir Valley.{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur}\n\nHe died at Kiyan Sharif on 8 Safar 1313 AH, the date his biography pairs with 31 July 1895, leaving four sons and a shrine that still draws murids from across Asia and Europe.{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur} His urs is kept each June at Baba Nagri, Wangat, by the Larvi sajjada nashins; Kashmir Uzma's report of the 122nd urs, in June 2017, styles him Nizamuddin Kianvi Naqshbandi and describes thousands of devotees at the three-day observance.{cite:kashmir-uzma-nizamuddin-kianwi-urs}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نظام الدین کیانوی (وفات: 31 جولائی 1895ء) وادی نیلم کے کیاں شریف کے نقشبندی صوفی بزرگ تھے، جنھیں مرید «باواجی سرکار» کہتے ہیں۔ ان کی اردو سوانح انھیں کشمیر کے اکابرِ نقشبندیہ میں شمار کرتی ہے، ان کی بیعت اور کیاں شریف میں طویل چلہ کشی کا ذکر کرتی ہے، اور ایشیا بھر کی دعوتی اسفار اور پندرہ سال حبشہ میں قیام کی روایت بیان کرتی ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur} ان کے خلفاء میں بابا جی لاروی کا نام آتا ہے جن کے ذریعے یہ سلسلہ وانگت، وادی کشمیر میں جاری ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur}\n\nان کا وصال کیاں شریف میں 8 صفر 1313ھ کو ہوا، جسے ان کی سوانح 31 جولائی 1895ء کے مطابق بتاتی ہے؛ ان کے چار بیٹے تھے اور ان کا دربار آج بھی ایشیا و یورپ کے مریدوں کی حاضری کا مرکز ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-nizamuddin-kianwi-ur} ان کا عرس ہر سال جون میں بابا نگری وانگت میں آلِ لاروی کے اہتمام سے منایا جاتا ہے؛ «کشمیر عظمیٰ» کی 2017ء کی رپورٹ نے 122ویں عرس میں ہزاروں عقیدت مندوں کی شرکت اور انھیں «نظام الدین کیانوی نقشبندی» کے نام سے یاد کیا۔{cite:kashmir-uzma-nizamuddin-kianwi-urs}"
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