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 "label": {
  "ar": "صافية الدين تاج العالم",
  "en": "Taj al-Alam",
  "ur": "تاج العالم صفیۃ الدین"
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  "ar": "تاج العالم صافية الدين شاه ⁦(نحو 1612 – 23 تشرين الأول 1675)⁩، وُلدت بوتري سري علم، سلطانة آتشيه من 1641 إلى 1675 وأولى أربع سلطانات متعاقبات. ابنة إسكندر مودا وزوجة خليفته إسكندر الثاني، اعتلت العرش أرملةً سنة 1641، وحكمت بالتفاوض مع النبلاء والعلماء، واحتملت ضغط الشركة الهولندية على تجارة القصدير والفلفل، ورعت ازدهارًا في الأدب والعلم الشرعي في بلاطها — وفيه ألّف عبد الرؤوف السنكيلي «مرآة الطلاب» بطلبها — وماتت سنة 1675 بلا أولاد.",
  "en": "Taj al-Alam Safiatuddin Syah (c. 1612 – 23 October 1675), born Putri Sri Alam, was sultana of Aceh from 1641 to 1675, the first of four successive sultanas. Daughter of Iskandar Muda and wife of his successor Iskandar Thani, she was enthroned as his widow in 1641, governed by negotiation with the nobility and the ulama, withstood VOC pressure over the tin and pepper trades, and presided over a flowering of Islamic literature and learning at her court — Abd al-Ra'uf al-Singkili composed his Mir'at al-Tullab at her request — dying in 1675 without children.",
  "ur": "تاج العالم صفیۃ الدین شاہ ⁦(تقریباً 1612ء – 23 اکتوبر 1675ء)⁩، پیدائشی نام پوتری سری عالم، 1641ء سے 1675ء تک آچے کی سلطانہ اور یکے بعد دیگرے چار سلطاناؤں میں پہلی تھیں۔ اسکندر مودا کی بیٹی اور ان کے جانشین اسکندر ثانی کی اہلیہ، 1641ء میں بیوگی میں تخت نشین ہوئیں، امراء اور علماء سے مشاورت سے حکمرانی کی، ٹن اور کالی مرچ کی تجارت پر ولندیزی کمپنی کے دباؤ کا سامنا کیا، اور ان کے دربار میں اسلامی ادب و علم نے فروغ پایا — عبد الرؤف سنکیلی نے ان کی فرمائش پر «مرآۃ الطلاب» لکھی — اور 1675ء میں بے اولاد وفات پائیں۔"
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  "latest": 1675.8118920990532
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1612",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "Born at Banda Aceh. The English and Arabic articles and the Wikidata item give 1612; the Indonesian article says the year is usually given as 1612 but comes from later historiography with no contemporary birth record, so it is properly an estimate — the year is built as debated. The year 1612 spans 1020-1021 AH, so no single Hijri year is built. No place entity for Banda Aceh is used here, so no born_in edge is written.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-taj-al-alam"
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  "end": {
   "edtf": "1675-10-23",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "hijri": "1086",
   "note": "Died at Banda Aceh; the English, Indonesian and Arabic articles all give 23 October 1675 (the Wikidata item gives the year 1675 only), which falls in 1086 AH (conversion derived). No died_in edge is written.",
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   {
    "value": "Putri Sri Alam",
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   {
    "value": "Putri Sri Alam Permisuri",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah",
    "kind": "regnal"
   },
   {
    "value": "Sri Sultanah Ratu Safiatuddin Tajul-Alam Syah Johan Berdaulat Zillullahi fil-Alam",
    "kind": "regnal"
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    "value": "Safiatuddin",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   "edtf": "1612",
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   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "note": "Born at Banda Aceh. The English and Arabic articles and the Wikidata item give 1612; the Indonesian article says the year is usually given as 1612 but comes from later historiography with no contemporary birth record, so it is properly an estimate — the year is built as debated. The year 1612 spans 1020-1021 AH, so no single Hijri year is built. No place entity for Banda Aceh is used here, so no born_in edge is written.",
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1675-10-23",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "hijri": "1086",
   "note": "Died at Banda Aceh; the English, Indonesian and Arabic articles all give 23 October 1675 (the Wikidata item gives the year 1675 only), which falls in 1086 AH (conversion derived). No died_in edge is written.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No text read names a school or an order for the woman herself. The English article reports the Bustan al-Salatin's characterisation of her as virtuous and pious and a Dutch witness's praise of her rule, and describes the Islamic scholarship of her court — Abdurrauf of Singkil writing on Shafi'i jurisprudence, a school named for the court scholar, not for her; the Indonesian article records her patronage and her request for his fiqh work Mir'at al-Tullab. Chronicle characterisation, court Islam and patronage settle no school under the founder's rules, so her faith is recorded as unknown with the record stated.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Taj ul-Alam' (revision 1376316406 of 23 September 2026), Indonesian Wikipedia 'Safiatuddin dari Aceh' (revision 30077271 of 16 October 2026), Arabic Wikipedia 'صافية الدين تاج العالم' (revision 67382155 of 20 July 2024) and Wikidata Q7676752 (item revision 2554173312 of 6 October 2026, re-asserted identical on a second live query), fetched live in-session on 1 November 2026; the QID was grounded from the English article's own page property, the Indonesian and Arabic articles agreeing. Existence checked against origin/main before building, by slug variants (taj-al-alam, taj-ul-alam, safiatuddin) and by QID — no record holds this woman. BRIEF CORRECTION: the brief's gloss that she might be Iskandar Thani's daughter is not borne out — all three articles and the Wikidata item make her the daughter of Iskandar Muda and the wife (not daughter) of Iskandar Thani, so her child_of edge targets Iskandar Muda, no child_of edge to Iskandar Thani is written, and the spouse edge is written in Iskandar Thani's record (the elder spouse) in this batch. Queue correction: the queue gives her dates as 1613-1699; the articles give c. 1612-1675 (1699 is only the end of the four-sultanas period 1641-1699), and the brief's 1612-1675 is followed.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "السلطانة تاج العالم صافية الدين شاه، وُلدت بوتري سري علم نحو 1612 — تقول المقالة الإندونيسية إن السنة من التأريخ المتأخر ولا سجل معاصرًا لولادتها فهي تقدير — وكانت الحاكمة الرابعة عشرة لآتشيه من 1641 إلى 1675، أولى أربع نساء شغلن المنصب على التوالي.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id} وهي ابنة السلطان إسكندر مودا وزوجة خليفته إسكندر الثاني — لا ابنته.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الزواج والاعتلاء",
     "markdown": "فتح والدها بهانغ سنة 1617 وجُلب ابن سلطانها، إسكندر الثاني لاحقًا، أسيرًا إلى آتشيه فنشأ ابنًا بالرعاية، وتزوّجها سنة 1619 وهو في التاسعة، وأقام الزوجان في قصر سري وارنا بجوار قصر السلطان.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en} وبعد وفاة إسكندر مودا خلفه زوجها، ثم مات الزوج في 15 شباط 1641 فأحدث موته اضطرابًا، وبعد ثلاثة أيام اتُّفق على تنصيب أرملته — تضع الرواية الهولندية التتويج نحو 18 شباط، بينما يضعه «بستان السلاطين» في يوم وفاة الزوج نفسه.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم",
     "markdown": "اعتلت بوتري سري علم العرش بلقب سلطانة تاج العالم صافية الدين شاه، ومعناه «تاج العالم، نقاء الدين»، وحكمت — كما تصف المقالة الإندونيسية — بالتفاوض والمشاورة مع النبلاء والعلماء والقادة، لا بالقوة العسكرية ومركزة سلفها.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id} وتقلّص نفوذ السلطنة خارج قلب آتشيه في عهدها: فقدت جوهر وبهانغ واحتفظت ببيرق المنتجة للقصدير، وحاصرت سفن الشركة الهولندية آتشيه حتى معاهدة 1659 التي نالت بها الشركة نصف قصدير بيرق واحتكارًا تجاريًا لم يُنفَّذ، ثم أخرجت قواتها الآتشيهيين من الساحل الغربي بعد معاهدة باينان 1663، وسقطت ديلي سنة 1669.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "العلم والأثر",
     "markdown": "امتدحها الكتّاب المحليون والأوروبيون: وصفها «بستان السلاطين» بالفضيلة والتقوى، وشاهد هولندي بأن حكمها «طيّع لكن مهيب».{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en} ورثت تقليدًا في العلم الشرعي ببلاطها: لم تكن مؤيدة لنور الدين الرانيري كسلفها فغادر خدمة البلاط سنة 1644، وصار الكاتب الأبرز في عهدها عبد الرؤوف السنكيلي، الذي ألّف في الفقه الشافعي والتصوف وكتب «مرآة الطلاب» في الفقه بطلبها نحو 1663، وازدهر الأدب والعلم الشرعي في عهدها وعهد السلطانات الثلاث بعدها.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id} ماتت في 23 تشرين الأول 1675 ولم تترك أولادًا، وخَلَفتها سلطانة أخرى هي نور العالم نقية الدين شاه.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-ar}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Sultana Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah, born Putri Sri Alam about 1612 — the Indonesian article notes the year comes from later historiography, with no contemporary birth record, so it is an estimate — was the fourteenth ruler of Aceh, reigning from 1641 to 1675 as the first of four women to hold the position in succession.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id} She was the daughter of Sultan Iskandar Muda and the wife of his successor Iskandar Thani — not Iskandar Thani's daughter.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Marriage and accession",
     "markdown": "Her father conquered Pahang in 1617 and the defeated sultan's son, the future Iskandar Thani, was brought as a prisoner to Aceh and raised as Iskandar Muda's foster son; in 1619, aged nine, he was married to Putri Sri Alam, and the couple were given the Sri Wareuna palace next to the sultan's.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en} After Iskandar Muda's death her husband succeeded, then died on 15 February 1641; his death created grave disturbances, and after three days it was agreed that his widow would be enthroned — the Dutch report places the enthronement about 18 February, while the Bustan al-Salatin places her accession on her husband's death day itself.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Rule",
     "markdown": "Putri Sri Alam took the title Sultana Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah — \"world crown, pure-of-faith\" — and governed, as the Indonesian article describes it, by negotiation and consultation with the nobility, the ulama and the commanders, rather than by her father's military centralisation.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id} Acehnese power outside the heartland contracted under her: Johor and Pahang were given up while tin-producing Perak was retained, VOC ships blockaded Aceh until the 1659 treaty granting the Company half of Perak's tin and a trade monopoly that was not fulfilled, the Painan treaty of 1663 led to the expulsion of the Acehnese from the west coast, and Deli fell away in 1669.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Learning and legacy",
     "markdown": "Indigenous and European writers praised her: the chronicle Bustanus Salatin characterised her as virtuous and pious, and a Dutch witness called her rule \"good-natured but awe-inspiring\".{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en} She inherited a tradition of Islamic scholarship at court: she was less favourable to Nuruddin ar-Raniri than her predecessor and he left royal employ in 1644, while the major writer of her reign was Abdurrauf of Singkil, who wrote on Shafi'i jurisprudence and mysticism and composed the fiqh work Mir'at al-Tullab at her request about 1663; a proliferation of Islamic literature and learning marked her reign and those of the three queens who succeeded her.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id} She died on 23 October 1675 leaving no children, and was succeeded by another queen, Sultan Nurul Alam Naqiatuddin Syah.{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-ar}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "سلطانہ تاج العالم صفیۃ الدین شاہ، پیدائشی نام پوتری سری عالم، تقریباً 1612ء میں پیدا ہوئیں — انڈونیشیائی مقالہ بتاتا ہے کہ یہ سال بعد کی تاریخ نویسی سے ہے اور ہم عصر ریکارڈ نہیں، لہٰذا یہ ایک اندازہ ہے — اور 1641ء سے 1675ء تک آچے کی چودہویں حکمران اور یکے بعد دیگرے چار سلطاناؤں میں پہلی تھیں۔{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id} وہ اسکندر مودا کی بیٹی اور ان کے جانشین اسکندر ثانی کی اہلیہ تھیں — اسکندر ثانی کی بیٹی نہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تخت نشینی اور حکمرانی",
     "markdown": "1619ء میں نو برس کے اسکندر ثانی سے ان کی شادی ہوئی؛ شوہر 15 فروری 1641ء کو وفات پا گئے تو تین دن بعد ان کی بیوہ کو تخت پر بٹھانے پر اتفاق ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en} انہوں نے امراء اور علماء سے مشاورت و مذاکرات سے حکمرانی کی، جب کہ ولندیزی کمپنی کے دباؤ سے آچے کا بیرونی اثر گھٹا: جوہر اور پہانگ گئے، پیراک کا ٹن جزوی طور پر 1659ء کے معاہدے میں کمپنی کو ملا اور 1669ء میں دیلی بھی جدا ہو گیا۔{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "علم اور وفات",
     "markdown": "«بستان السلاطین» نے انہیں پرہیزگار اور نیک قرار دیا اور ایک ولندیزی گواہ نے ان کی حکمرانی کو خوش مزاج مگر پرہیبت کہا۔{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en} ان کے دربار میں عبد الرؤف سنکیلی نے ان کی فرمائش پر فقہ کی کتاب «مرآۃ الطلاب» تقریباً 1663ء میں لکھی اور اسلامی ادب و علم نے فروغ پایا۔{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-id} وہ 23 اکتوبر 1675ء کو بے اولاد وفات پا گئیں اور اگلی سلطانہ نور العالم نقیۃ الدین شاہ جانشین ہوئیں۔{cite:wikipedia-taj-al-alam-en}"
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