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  "ar": "سليمان بشير دياغني",
  "en": "Souleymane Bachir Diagne",
  "ur": "سلیمان بشیر دیاغنی"
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  "ar": "فيلسوف سنغالي ⁦(وُلد سنة 1955 في سان لوي)⁩، أستاذ الفرنسية والفلسفة في جامعة كولومبيا، يجمع عمله بين تاريخ المنطق والرياضيات والتقاليد الفلسفية في الإسلام وأفريقيا. من كتبه «كيف نتفلسف في الإسلام» (2010) و«الانفتاح على العقل: فلاسفة مسلمون في حوار مع التراث الغربي» (2018).",
  "en": "Senegalese philosopher (born 1955 in Saint-Louis), professor of French and philosophy at Columbia University, whose work joins the history of logic and mathematics to the philosophical traditions of Islam and Africa. His books include Comment philosopher en Islam (2010) and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition (2018).",
  "ur": "سینیگالی فلسفی ⁦(پیدائش 1955ء، سینٹ لوئس)⁩، کولمبیا یونیورسٹی میں فرانسیسی اور فلسفے کے پروفیسر؛ ان کا کام منطق و ریاضی کی تاریخ کو اسلام اور افریقا کی فلسفیانہ روایات سے جوڑتا ہے۔ ان کی کتابوں میں «اسلام میں فلسفہ کیسے ہو» ⁦(2010ء)⁩ اور «عقل کی طرف کشادگی» ⁦(2018ء)⁩ شامل ہیں۔"
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  "andalus-europe",
  "americas-oceania"
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  "earliest": 1955.8313312388345,
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   "edtf": "1955-11-01",
   "hijri": "1375",
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   "status": "debated",
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   "note": "Birth day debated. The French biography and Wikidata give 1 November 1955, at Saint-Louis, Senegal, and that reading is followed; the English biography gives 8 November 1955, preserved here. Both days fall in the Hijri year 1375, a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived. Saint-Louis has no place entity, so the fact is carried here and no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1955-11-01",
   "hijri": "1375",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Birth day debated. The French biography and Wikidata give 1 November 1955, at Saint-Louis, Senegal, and that reading is followed; the English biography gives 8 November 1955, preserved here. Both days fall in the Hijri year 1375, a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived. Saint-Louis has no place entity, so the fact is carried here and no born_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Islam is attested for Diagne himself, though no school is. A major French press profile (Roger-Pol Droit, Les Échos, 2018) describes his first singularity as being at once Muslim, philosopher, democrat and rationalist, and his philosophical work is written from within Islam (Comment philosopher en Islam, 2010; Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition, 2018). His family's affiliation to the Tijani Sufi confraternity is family background, which never counts, and no source attests an order membership or a legal school for the man himself. The settlement is the documented-Islam-without-a-school configuration, unknown.",
    "sources": [
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     "source/wikipedia-diagne-en"
    ]
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   "source": "The English and French Wikipedia biographies of Souleymane Bachir Diagne, the Wikidata item Q383751 and Roger-Pol Droit's Les Échos profile of 23 March 2018 (as republished by Columbia University's Department of French), read in this session; every Wikipedia and Wikidata revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session, asserted, and the Wikidata revision re-asserted against a second live query. The QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's bearer — the Saint-Louis-born Columbia philosopher (born 1955), pinned by biography and QID; the other Diagne record on main, blaise-diagne, is the earlier Senegalese politician, a different man. The queue's year is confirmed; the day is debated between the French (1 November) and English (8 November) biographies and is recorded debated. Relations written: none — Saint-Louis, Dakar and Paris have no place entities. Living-person care: only well-sourced public facts are recorded.",
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