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  "ar": "عالم ومترجم أمريكي مسلم (مواليد 1954) يقيم في عمّان؛ وُلد لأسرة أمريكية من أصل ألماني في ولاية واشنطن، واعتنق الإسلام سنة 1977، وتتلمذ في سوريا على عبد الرحمن الشاغوري وأخذ عنه الطريقة الشاذلية وأُجيز شيخًا سنة 1996، وأسّس زاوية في عمّان، واشتهر بترجمته «عمدة السالك» إلى الإنجليزية وبترجمته للقرآن «القرآن منظورًا» (2022).",
  "en": "American Muslim scholar and translator (born 1954) living in Amman. Born to a German American family in the state of Washington, he converted to Islam in 1977, studied in Syria as a disciple of Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri, from whom he took the Shadhili order and his authorization as a shaykh in 1996, and founded a zawiya in Amman; he is known for his English translation of Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) and his 2022 Quran translation, The Quran Beheld.",
  "ur": "امریکی مسلم عالم اور مترجم (پیدائش 1954)، عمان میں مقیم؛ ریاست واشنگٹن میں جرمن نژاد امریکی خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے، 1977 میں اسلام قبول کیا، شام میں عبد الرحمن الشاغوری کے شاگرد بن کر ان سے شاذلی سلسلہ لیا اور 1996 میں شیخ کی اجازت پائی، «عمدۃ السالک» کے انگریزی ترجمے اور 2022 کے ترجمۂ قرآن سے مشہور ہیں۔"
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     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "نوح حاميم كلر (مواليد 1954) داعية إسلامي أمريكي الأصل مقيم في الأردن، وشيخ للطريقة الشاذلية في الولايات المتحدة الأميركية، وزميل أول في مؤسسة آل البيت للفكر الإسلامي بالأردن.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ar}"
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    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتحوّل",
     "markdown": "وُلد كلر سنة 1954 لأسرة أمريكية من الجيل الثالث من أصل ألماني في ولاية واشنطن، ودرس الفلسفة واللغة العربية في جامعة شيكاغو وجامعة كاليفورنيا بلوس أنجلوس.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} اعتنق الإسلام قادمًا من الكاثوليكية الرومانية سنة 1977، وذكر أن كتابات الفيلسوف الإسلامي سيد حسين نصر كانت من أسباب تحوّله.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} عمل صيادًا تجاريًا في شمال المحيط الهادئ قبل تفرّغه للدراسة.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دراسته وطريقته",
     "markdown": "بدأ كلر دراسة مطوّلة للعلوم الإسلامية على علماء بارزين في سوريا والأردن، وأُجيز شيخًا سنة 1996.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} تتلمذ في سوريا على الشيخ عبد الرحمن الشاغوري وأخذ عنه الطريقة الشاذلية؛ تذكر المقالة الإنجليزية أنه كان تلميذه من سنة 1982 وأنه أخذ عنه إجازته، وتذكر المقالة العربية أنه أخذ عنه الطريقة سنة 1988.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ar} يقيم كلر في عمّان، حيث أسّس زاوية في أوائل العقد الأول من القرن الحادي والعشرين اجتمع حولها في ذروتها نحو ستين أسرة مقيمة ومئات الطلبة الزائرين.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}"
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    {
     "heading": "ترجماته ومؤلفاته",
     "markdown": "ترجم كلر «عمدة السالك» لأحمد بن النقيب المصري إلى الإنجليزية بعنوان «اعتماد المسافر» (Reliance of the Traveller)، وهو أول عمل قانوني إسلامي بلغة أوروبية ينال تصديق جامعة الأزهر.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} وأصدر سنة 2022 ترجمته للقرآن بعنوان «القرآن منظورًا» (The Quran Beheld).{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} ومن مؤلفاته «بحر بلا شاطئ: دليل الطريق الصوفي» (2011) و«صيرورة مسلم» (2001) و«التصوف والإسلام» (2002)، وكتب في الطريقة الشاذلية نفسها كتاب «الطريقة الشاذلية: ملاحظات من الطريقة الحاشمية الدرقاوية» (1999).{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-nuh-ha-mim-keller}}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Nuh Ha Mim Keller (born 1954) is an American Islamic scholar, teacher and author who lives in Amman, Jordan, and a translator of a number of Islamic books.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} The Arabic article calls him a shaykh of the Shadhili order in the United States and a senior fellow of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Jordan.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ar}"
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     "heading": "Early life and conversion",
     "markdown": "Keller was born in 1954 to a third-generation German American family in the state of Washington, and studied philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} He converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism in 1977, and has cited the writings of the Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr as one of the reasons for his conversion.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} He worked as a commercial fisherman in the North Pacific before his prolonged study of the Islamic sciences.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Study and the Shadhili path",
     "markdown": "Keller studied the Islamic sciences with prominent scholars in Syria and Jordan and was authorized as a shaykh in 1996.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} He joined the Shadhili Sufi order, becoming a disciple of the Sufi poet Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri of Damascus, from whom he received his authorization, from 1982 until al-Shaghouri's death in 2004; the Arabic article dates his taking of the order from al-Shaghouri to 1988.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ar} He lives in Amman, where he established a zawiya in the early 2000s; at its height the resident community was believed to amount to around 60 families, with hundreds of visiting students and families.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "Translations and writings",
     "markdown": "His English translation of Umdat al-Salik, Reliance of the Traveller, is a Shafi'i manual of sacred law and the first Islamic legal work in a European language to receive the certification of Al-Azhar University.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} In 2022 he released a translation of the Quran titled The Quran Beheld.{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} His own works include The Shadhili Tariqa: Notes from the Hashimi-Darqawi Order (1999), Becoming Muslim (2001), Sufism and Islam (2002) and Sea Without Shore: A Manual of the Sufi Path (2011).{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}"
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     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-nuh-ha-mim-keller}}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نوح ہا میم کیلر (پیدائش 1954) ایک امریکی اسلامی اسکالر، استاد اور مصنف ہیں جو عمان میں رہتے ہیں اور متعدد اسلامی کتابوں کے مترجم ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ur}"
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     "heading": "زندگی اور اسلام قبول کرنا",
     "markdown": "کیلر نے یونیورسٹی آف شکاگو اور یونیورسٹی آف کیلیفورنیا، لاس اینجلس میں فلسفہ اور عربی کی تعلیم حاصل کی، اور 1977 میں رومن کیتھولک مذہب سے اسلام قبول کیا؛ انھوں نے اسلامی فلسفی سید حسین نصر کی تحریروں کو اپنے اسلام قبول کرنے کی ایک وجہ قرار دیا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ur} اس کے بعد انھوں نے شام اور اردن کے ممتاز علما کے ساتھ اسلامی علوم کا طویل مطالعہ کیا اور 1996 میں شیخ کے طور پر انھیں اجازت ملی۔{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "شاذلی سلسلہ اور تراجم",
     "markdown": "انگریزی مضمون کے مطابق کیلر شاذلی صوفی سلسلے میں شامل ہوئے اور 1982 سے دمشق کے صوفی شاعر عبد الرحمن الشاغوری کے شاگرد رہے اور انھی سے اجازت پائی، جب کہ عربی مضمون ان کے شاغوری سے سلسلہ لینے کا سال 1988 بتاتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-ar} وہ عمان میں مقیم ہیں جہاں انھوں نے 2000 کی دہائی کے اوائل میں ایک زاویہ قائم کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en} ان کا «عمدۃ السالک» کا انگریزی ترجمہ «ریلائنس آف دی ٹریولر» شافعی فقہ کی کتاب ہے اور کسی یورپی زبان میں پہلی اسلامی قانونی تصنیف ہے جسے الازہر یونیورسٹی کی تصدیق ملی، اور 2022 میں ان کا ترجمۂ قرآن «دی قرآن بی ہیلڈ» شائع ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-nuh-ha-mim-keller-en}"
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     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
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