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 "label": {
  "ar": "سيدي أبابكر سي",
  "en": "Serigne Babacar Sy",
  "ur": "سیدی ابابکر سی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عالم سنغالي (1885–1957)، ابن الحاج مالك سي وخليفته العام الأول على التيجانية في السنغال من سنة 1922 حتى وفاته. أسس في تيفاوان جماعات «الداهرة» (1932) التي نظمت أتباع الطريقة، وله قصائد ومؤلفات في السيرة وفي مدح أحمد التيجاني ووالده.",
  "en": "Senegalese scholar (1885-1957), son of El Hadj Malick Sy and his first khalifa-general over the Tijaniyya in Senegal, from 1922 until his death. At Tivaouane he founded the dahira associations (1932) that organised the order's followers, and he wrote poems and works on the Prophet's life, on Ahmad Tijani and on his father.",
  "ur": "سینیگال کے عالم (1885ء–1957ء)، الحاج مالک سی کے فرزند اور سینیگال میں تیجانیہ پر ان کے پہلے خلیفہ عام، 1922ء سے اپنی وفات تک۔ انہوں نے تیوان میں «داہرہ» انجمنیں (1932ء) قائم کیں جنہوں نے طریقے کے پیروکاروں کو منظم کیا، اور سیرت، احمد تیجانی اور اپنے والد پر نظمیں اور کتابیں لکھیں۔"
 },
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1885.0016769680417,
  "latest": 1957.230401719374
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1885",
   "hijri": "1302",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The French article and Wikidata give only the year 1885, at Saint-Louis, Senegal. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion of the Gregorian year. No place entity exists for Saint-Louis, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1957-03-25",
   "hijri": "1376",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The French article and Wikidata agree on 25 March 1957, at Tivaouane, during one of his regular spiritual retreats there. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion. No place entity exists for Tivaouane, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "أبابكر سي",
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   {
    "value": "Ababacar Sy",
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   {
    "value": "Serigne Babacar",
    "kind": "alternate"
   }
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  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "writer"
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1885",
   "hijri": "1302",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The French article and Wikidata give only the year 1885, at Saint-Louis, Senegal. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion of the Gregorian year. No place entity exists for Saint-Louis, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   ]
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1957-03-25",
   "hijri": "1376",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The French article and Wikidata agree on 25 March 1957, at Tivaouane, during one of his regular spiritual retreats there. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion. No place entity exists for Tivaouane, so no died_in edge is written.",
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED — headship only (the Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi configuration, wave 59 §B); one founder word settles him sufi/documented on the analogy of an order's hereditary head, or confirms unknown. What the sources give: the French article — the only Wikipedia article on him in any language — describes him throughout by office and descent: an eminent community head and Tidjane leader, his father Malick Sy's khalifa from 1922 and the first khalifa-general of the Tijaniyya in Senegal, founder in 1932 of the dahiras where the order's followers gathered to deepen their practice. No sentence in it states his own initiation, bay'a or discipleship in the order; his poems and works on Ahmad Tijani and on his father are authorship, not an attestation; and being the founder's son never counts by itself. Wikidata carries no religion value at all. Under the headship line the value stands unknown, with this reading preserved for the founder's ruling.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "French Wikipedia 'Serigne Babacar Sy' (revision 235977121) and Wikidata item Q3480996 (item revision 2528244197), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; the article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn. It is the only Wikipedia article on him in any language, so the Arabic, English and Urdu prose are all written from the French source and Wikidata. Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (babacar, sy), by Arabic label and by the QID route across data/person/; no earlier record of him exists. The child_of edge is written in his record pointing at his father, El Hadj Malick Sy, whose record exists; his sons who later held the khalifa (Mansour Sy, Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy, Abdoul Aziz Sy, Pape Malick Sy) have no museum records, so no edges are written for them. His Arabic label here (سيدي أبابكر سي) follows the form used in his father's record and does not collide with any existing label.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نشأته وخلافته",
     "markdown": "تلقى بابكر سي تعليمه القرآني في سانت لويس، ثم درس الأدب والفقه الإسلامي. وعند وفاة والده سنة 1922 خلفه خليفة عامًا للتيجانية في السنغال، فكان أول من حمل هذا اللقب بعد المؤسس المحلي للطريقة. وفي سنة 1932 أسس في تيفاوان «الداهرات» — ومنها الداهرة الكرام — وهي جماعات نظّمت أتباع الطريقة وجمعتهم على تعميق ممارستهم الدينية.{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مؤلفاته وأسرته",
     "markdown": "ترك بابكر سي قصائد ومؤلفات في سيرة النبي وفي أحمد التيجاني وفي والده مالك سي. ومن أولاده منصور سي والشيخ أحمد التيجاني سي وعبد العزيز سي وبابا مالك سي، وقد خلفه بعضهم في الخلافة من بعده.{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته وإرثه",
     "markdown": "توفي بابكر سي في تيفاوان في الخامس والعشرين من مارس 1957 أثناء إحدى خلواته الروحية المعتادة هناك. وتحمل مدرسة وشوارع رئيسية في حي سيكاب ليبرتيه في داكار اسمه، ويُعرض نعلاه في متحف الحضارات السوداء في داكار. وتتحدث عنه المقالة الفرنسية بمنصبه ونسبه — رأسًا للجماعة وقائمًا على التيجانية بعد والده — دون أن تنص على تلقيه الطريقة أو بيعته بنفسه، ولا يحمل ويكيداتا أي قيمة للدين له.{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}{cite:wikidata-serigne-babacar-sy}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Upbringing and succession",
     "markdown": "Babacar Sy received his Quranic education at Saint-Louis, then studied literature and Islamic jurisprudence. On his father's death in 1922 he succeeded him as khalifa-general of the Tijaniyya in Senegal, the first to hold that place after the order's local founder. In 1932 he founded the dahiras at Tivaouane — among them the Dahiratoul Kiram — associations that organised the order's followers and gathered them to deepen their religious practice.{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Works and family",
     "markdown": "Babacar Sy left poems and works on the life of the Prophet, on Ahmad Tijani and on his father Malick Sy. Among his children were Mansour Sy, Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy, Abdoul Aziz Sy and Pape Malick Sy, some of whom succeeded him in the khalifa after him.{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and legacy",
     "markdown": "Babacar Sy died at Tivaouane on 25 March 1957, during one of his regular spiritual retreats there. A school and main streets in Dakar's Sicap-Liberté quarter bear his name, and his slippers are displayed at the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar. The French article speaks of him by his office and his descent — community head and his father's khalifa over the Tijaniyya — without stating his own initiation or bay'a into the order, and Wikidata carries no religion value for him.{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}{cite:wikidata-serigne-babacar-sy}"
    }
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   "updated": "2026-10-26"
  },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "پرورش اور جانشینی",
     "markdown": "بابکر سی نے سینٹ لوئس میں قرآنی تعلیم حاصل کی، پھر ادب اور اسلامی فقہ پڑھی۔ 1922ء میں والد کی وفات پر وہ سینیگال میں تیجانیہ کے خلیفہ عام بنے، طریقے کے مقامی بانی کے بعد یہ مقام پانے والے پہلے شخص۔ 1932ء میں انہوں نے تیوان میں «داہرہ» انجمنیں قائم کیں — جن میں داہرۃ الکرام شامل ہے — جنہوں نے طریقے کے پیروکاروں کو منظم کیا اور انہیں اپنی دینی مشق کو گہرا کرنے کے لیے جمع کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تصانیف اور خاندان",
     "markdown": "بابکر سی نے سیرت نبوی، احمد تیجانی اور اپنے والد مالک سی پر نظمیں اور کتابیں چھوڑیں۔ ان کے بچوں میں منصور سی، شیخ احمد تیجانی سی، عبد العزیز سی اور پاپ مالک سی شامل تھے، جن میں سے بعض ان کے بعد خلافت پر فائز ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات اور ورثہ",
     "markdown": "بابکر سی کا انتقال تیوان میں 25 مارچ 1957ء کو ہوا، وہاں کی اپنی معمول کی روحانی خلوتوں میں سے ایک کے دوران۔ ڈاکار کے سیکاپ لیبرتے محلے میں ایک اسکول اور بڑی سڑکیں ان کے نام پر ہیں، اور ان کے جوتے ڈاکار کے سیاہ تہذیبوں کے عجائب گھر میں رکھے ہیں۔ فرانسیسی مقالہ ان کا ذکر ان کے عہدے اور نسب سے کرتا ہے — جماعت کے سربراہ اور تیجانیہ پر اپنے والد کے خلیفہ — بغیر یہ بتائے کہ انہوں نے خود طریقہ حاصل کیا یا بیعت کی، اور وکی ڈیٹا میں ان کے لیے مذہب کی کوئی قیمت نہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-serigne-babacar-sy-fr}{cite:wikidata-serigne-babacar-sy}"
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