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The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. Jaunpur has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The lane queue gives his birth year as 1891, which no consulted source supports; 1886 is followed.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en", "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-ur", "source/wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman" ] }, "end": { "edtf": "1941-03-12", "hijri": "1360", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died on 12 March 1941 while a judge of the Federal Court of India: the English article's lead and infobox give the day, the Urdu article's filing categories confirm the year, and Wikidata gives the same day. (Ziauddin Ahmad's English article dates the end of Sulaiman's vice-chancellorship to 13 March 1941, one day later; his own article and Wikidata are followed.) The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. The English article gives no death place; it records that he was buried at the Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi, beside Amir Khusrow, which is written as the buried_in edge to place/delhi.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en", "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-ur", "source/wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman" ] } }, "data": { "names": [ { "value": "Shah Muhammad Sulaiman", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "شاه محمد سليمان", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "شاہ محمد سلیمان", "kind": "full" } ], "gender": "male", "roles": [ "jurist", "scientist" ], "born": { "edtf": "1886-02-03", "hijri": "1303", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born on 3 February 1886 at Waleedpur village in Jaunpur district, British India: the English article's lead and infobox give the day (cited there to the Allahabad High Court's official biography), the Urdu article's filing categories confirm the year, and Wikidata gives the same day. The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. Jaunpur has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The lane queue gives his birth year as 1891, which no consulted source supports; 1886 is followed.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en", "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-ur", "source/wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman" ] }, "died": { "edtf": "1941-03-12", "hijri": "1360", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died on 12 March 1941 while a judge of the Federal Court of India: the English article's lead and infobox give the day, the Urdu article's filing categories confirm the year, and Wikidata gives the same day. (Ziauddin Ahmad's English article dates the end of Sulaiman's vice-chancellorship to 13 March 1941, one day later; his own article and Wikidata are followed.) The Hijri year is a tabular conversion of the Gregorian date. The English article gives no death place; it records that he was buried at the Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi, beside Amir Khusrow, which is written as the buried_in edge to place/delhi.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en", "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-ur", "source/wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman" ] }, "faith": [ { "value": "unknown", "basis": "unknown", "note": "No consulted source names a school for him. The English and Urdu article texts name no religion at all; Wikidata gives his religion only as Islam generically (the item for Islam, Q432), a single structured value naming no school; and the English article's filing categories ('19th-century Indian Muslims' and the like) are categories, not attestations. His descent from a family of lawyers and scholars of Jaunpur is family background and never counts. 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Existence checks by name fragments (sulaiman, شاه محمد سليمان, شاہ محمد سلیمان), by biography (Allahabad chief justice, Aligarh vice-chancellor), by QID across data/person, and by record provenances found no prior record for this man; the record shah-sulaiman-nuri is a different person. No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him (only an Egyptian-dialect sitelink, which this lane does not count as an Arabic article), so the Arabic prose is written from the English and Urdu sources and says so. Two relations are written. First, buried_in to place/delhi, on the English article's statement that he was buried at the Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi beside Amir Khusrow. Second, successor_of to person/ziauddin-ahmad, built in this same batch, and its direction is stated here in words: Sulaiman SUCCEEDED Ziauddin Ahmad as Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1938 — Ziauddin's own English article states that when his first term ended on 30 April 1938 'he was succeeded as Vice-Chancellor by Sir Shah Sulaiman', and Sulaiman's own English article confirms his vice-chancellorship ran 1938–1941. No other edge is written: Jaunpur has no place entity. The lane queue gives 'Sir Shah Sulaiman (1891–1941)': the death year is confirmed, but the birth year is wrong — the articles and Wikidata agree on 1886 (3 February 1886).", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)", "run": "century-additions-86" }, "status": { "review": "published", "completeness": 3, "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)" } }, "prose": { "ar": { "sections": [ { "heading": "موجز", "markdown": "شاه محمد سليمان (3 شباط 1886 – 12 آذار 1941) قاضٍ وفيزيائي هندي، أول هندي يرأس محكمة الله آباد العليا (1932–1937)، ثم قاضٍ في المحكمة الاتحادية الهندية ونائب رئيس جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية (1938–1941). {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} {cite:wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman} والمقالة الأردية مقالة قصيرة مشتقة من الإنجليزية. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-ur} ولا توجد له مقالة في ويكيبيديا العربية، فهذه المدخلة مكتوبة من المصدرين الإنجليزي والأردي." }, { "heading": "النشأة والتعليم", "markdown": "وُلد في قرية وليدبور بمنطقة جونبور في أسرة من المحامين والعلماء — فأحد أسلافه، ملا محمود الجونبوري، كان فيلسوفًا في زمن شاه جهان، وكان أبوه محمد عثمان محاميًا في جونبور. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} تخرّج في جامعة الله آباد سنة 1906 متصدرًا قائمته، ثم قرأ في كلية المسيح بكامبريدج فنال مراتب في امتحانات الرياضيات سنة 1909 والقانون سنة 1910، ونال دكتوراه الحقوق من جامعة دبلن في السنة نفسها. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} بدأ المحاماة في جونبور سنة 1911 وانتقل إلى الله آباد سنة 1912. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "القضاء", "markdown": "عُيّن قاضيًا في محكمة الله آباد العليا في نيسان 1923 ومُنح لقب فارس في تكريمات عيد الملك سنة 1929. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} ومن 16 آذار 1932 إلى 30 أيلول 1937 رأس المحكمة — أول هندي وأحد أصغر من تولّوا المنصب. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} وفي 3 آب 1933 أصدر حكم الاستئناف في قضية مؤامرة ميروت. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} وفي 1 تشرين الأول 1937 التحق بالمحكمة الاتحادية الهندية الجديدة وبقي فيها حتى وفاته. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "عليكرة والتعليم", "markdown": "خلف ضياء الدين أحمد في نيابة رئاسة جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية سنة 1938 وبقي في المنصب حتى 1941. {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-ahmad-en} {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} وكان قد رأس مؤتمر التعليم المحمدي لعموم الهند في أجمير سنة 1928 وألقى خطب التخرج في دكا وعليكرة وحيدر آباد وأغرا، وحقّق مثنوي شوق قدواي «عالم خيال» وقدّم له. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "الوفاة والذكرى", "markdown": "توفي في 12 آذار 1941 ودُفن عند ضريح نظام الدين في دلهي بجانب أمير خسرو. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} وكتب سي. في. رامان نعيه في مجلة «نيتشر»، ويحمل اسمه كلٌّ من قاعة السير شاه سليمان في عليكرة وطريق السير شاه سليمان في كراتشي. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} ويعطي ويكي بيانات ديانته «الإسلام» بصيغة عامة ولا تسمّي أي مقالة مذهبًا له، فيسجّل المتحف انتماءه مجهولًا. {cite:wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/shah-muhammad-sulaiman", "lang": "ar", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "en": { "sections": [ { "heading": "Summary", "markdown": "Shah Muhammad Sulaiman (3 February 1886 – 12 March 1941) was an Indian judge and physicist, the first Indian to serve as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court (1932–1937), later a judge of the Federal Court of India and Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (1938–1941). {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} {cite:wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman} The Urdu article is a short stub derived from the English one. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-ur} No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him, so the Arabic entry is written from the English and Urdu sources." }, { "heading": "Early life and education", "markdown": "He was born at Waleedpur village in Jaunpur district, into a family of lawyers and scholars — an ancestor, Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri, had been a philosopher of Shah Jahan's time, and his father Muhammad Usman practised at the Jaunpur bar. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} He graduated from Allahabad University in 1906 at the head of his list, then read at Christ's College, Cambridge, placing in the Mathematical Tripos in 1909 and the Law Tripos in 1910, and took a doctorate of laws at the University of Dublin the same year. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} He began practice at Jaunpur in 1911 and moved to Allahabad in 1912. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "The bench", "markdown": "He was made a judge of the Allahabad High Court in April 1923 and was knighted in the 1929 Birthday Honours. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} From 16 March 1932 to 30 September 1937 he was the court's chief justice — the first Indian and one of the youngest to hold the post. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} On 3 August 1933 he delivered the appellate judgment in the Meerut Conspiracy Case. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} On 1 October 1937 he joined the new Federal Court of India and sat on it until his death. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "Aligarh and education", "markdown": "He succeeded Ziauddin Ahmad as Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1938 and held the office until 1941. {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-ahmad-en} {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} He had presided over the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference at Ajmer in 1928 and delivered convocation addresses at Dacca, Aligarh, Hyderabad and Agra, and he edited and introduced an edition of Shauq Qidwai's masnavi *Alam-e-Khiyal*. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "Death and memorials", "markdown": "He died on 12 March 1941 and was buried at the Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi, beside Amir Khusrow. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} C. V. Raman wrote his obituary in *Nature*, and both Sir Shah Sulaiman Hall at Aligarh and Sir Shah Sulaiman Road in Karachi carry his name. {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} Wikidata gives his religion only as Islam generically and no article names a school, so the museum records his affiliation as unknown. {cite:wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/shah-muhammad-sulaiman", "lang": "en", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "ur": { "sections": [ { "heading": "خلاصہ", "markdown": "شاہ محمد سلیمان (3 فروری 1886ء – 12 مارچ 1941ء) ہندوستانی منصف اور طبیعیات دان تھے، الہ آباد ہائی کورٹ کے پہلے ہندوستانی چیف جسٹس (1932ء–1937ء)، بعد میں وفاقی عدالت ہند کے جج اور علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی کے وائس چانسلر (1938ء–1941ء) رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} {cite:wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman} اردو مقالہ انگریزی مقالے سے ماخوذ مختصر تحریر ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-ur}" }, { "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم", "markdown": "وہ ضلع جونپور کے ولیڈپور گاؤں میں وکلا اور علما کے خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے — ان کے ایک جد ملا محمود جونپوری شاہ جہاں کے دور کے فلسفی تھے، اور والد محمد عثمان جونپور میں وکیل تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} 1906ء میں الہ آباد یونیورسٹی سے فہرست میں اول آ کر فارغ ہوئے، پھر کرائسٹ کالج، کیمبرج میں پڑھا، 1909ء میں ریاضی اور 1910ء میں قانون کے امتحانات میں نمایاں ہوئے اور اسی سال ڈبلن یونیورسٹی سے قوانین میں ڈاکٹریٹ لیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} 1911ء میں جونپور سے وکالت شروع کی اور 1912ء میں الہ آباد منتقل ہو گئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "عدلیہ", "markdown": "اپریل 1923ء میں الہ آباد ہائی کورٹ کے جج بنے اور 1929ء میں برتھ ڈے آنرز میں نائٹ کا خطاب ملا۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} 16 مارچ 1932ء سے 30 ستمبر 1937ء تک عدالت کے چیف جسٹس رہے — اس منصب پر فائز پہلے ہندوستانی اور کم عمر ترین افراد میں سے ایک۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} 3 اگست 1933ء کو انہوں نے میرٹھ سازش مقدمے کا اپیلی فیصلہ سنایا۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} یکم اکتوبر 1937ء کو نئی وفاقی عدالت ہند میں شامل ہوئے اور اپنی وفات تک اس میں رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "علی گڑھ اور تعلیم", "markdown": "وہ 1938ء میں ضیاء الدین احمد کے بعد علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی کے وائس چانسلر بنے اور 1941ء تک اس منصب پر رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-ziauddin-ahmad-en} {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} 1928ء میں اجمیر میں آل انڈیا محمدن ایجوکیشنل کانفرنس کی صدارت کی، ڈھاکہ، علی گڑھ، حیدرآباد اور آگرہ میں کانووکیشن خطبات دیے، اور شوق قدوائی کی مثنوی «عالم خیال» کی تدوین و تقدیم کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en}" }, { "heading": "وفات اور یادگار", "markdown": "12 مارچ 1941ء کو وفات پائی اور دہلی میں نظام الدین کے مزار کے پاس امیر خسرو کے پہلو میں دفن ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} سی۔ وی۔ رامن نے «نیچر» میں ان کا مرثیہ لکھا، اور علی گڑھ میں سر شاہ سلیمان ہال اور کراچی میں سر شاہ سلیمان روڈ ان کے نام پر ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en} ویکی ذخیرہ ان کا مذہب صرف عمومی طور پر «اسلام» دیتا ہے اور کوئی مقالہ ان کا مسلک نہیں بتاتا، اس لیے عجائب گھر ان کی وابستگی نامعلوم درج کرتا ہے۔ {cite:wikidata-shah-muhammad-sulaiman}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/shah-muhammad-sulaiman", "lang": "ur", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" } }, "degree": 4, "contemporaries": [ "person/a-k-fazlul-huq", "person/abbas-hilmi-ii", "person/abd-al-qadir-al-maghribi", "person/abd-el-krim", "person/abdelaziz-thaalbi", "person/abdelkader-hadj-ali", "person/abdul-hamid-khan-bhashani", "person/abdul-haq", "person/abdul-karim-amrullah", "person/abdul-muis", "person/abdullah-bin-jassim-al-thani", "person/abdullah-haroon" ], "updated": "2026-10-27", "connections": [ { "to": "place/delhi", "type": "buried_in", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en" ] }, { "to": "person/ziauddin-ahmad", "type": "successor_of", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-ziauddin-ahmad-en", "source/wikipedia-shah-muhammad-sulaiman-en" ] } ], "related": [ "person/nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan", "event/aurangzeb-coronation-delhi-1659", "event/founding-of-shahjahanabad-1638", "event/humayun-returns-to-delhi-962", "event/ibn-battuta-envoy-to-china-1342", "event/jama-masjid-delhi-completed-1656", "event/nadir-shah-sack-of-delhi-1739", "event/red-fort-inaugurated-1648" ], "license": { "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "data": "CC0 1.0" } }