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 "label": {
  "ar": "محمد ظاهر شاه",
  "en": "Mohammad Zahir Shah",
  "ur": "محمد ظاہر شاہ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "آخر ملوك أفغانستان، حكم من 8 نوفمبر 1933 حتى خلعه ابن عمه محمد داود خان في انقلاب 17 يوليو 1973. وُلد في كابل سنة 1914 ابنًا للملك محمد نادر شاه، وعاش منفيا في إيطاليا تسعة وعشرين عاما، ثم عاد إلى أفغانستان سنة 2002 وحمل لقب أب الأمة حتى وفاته في كابل سنة 2007.",
  "en": "The last king of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan deposed him in the coup of 17 July 1973. Born at Kabul in 1914, a son of King Mohammad Nadir Shah, he lived twenty-nine years in exile in Italy, returned to Afghanistan in 2002 and held the title Father of the Nation until his death at Kabul in 2007.",
  "ur": "افغانستان کے آخری بادشاہ، جنھوں نے 8 نومبر 1933ء سے 17 جولائی 1973ء میں اپنے چچا زاد محمد داؤد خان کے ہاتھوں معزولی تک حکومت کی۔ 1914ء میں کابل میں بادشاہ محمد نادر شاہ کے بیٹے پیدا ہوئے، اٹلی میں انتیس سال جلاوطنی گزاری، 2002ء میں افغانستان لوٹے اور 2007ء میں کابل میں وفات تک «بابائے قوم» کا لقب رکھا۔"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1914.7846293900627,
  "latest": 2007.5586083218366
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1914-10-15",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born on 15 October 1914 at Kabul, as the English article (citing Britannica), the Urdu article and Wikidata give. The Arabic article gives 16 October 1914, and the English infobox's own age template also computes from 16 October; the one-day variant is recorded here and the Britannica-backed date is followed. No source gives a Hijri pairing for this date, so none is recorded.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-zahir-shah-en",
    "source/wikipedia-zahir-shah-ar",
    "source/wikipedia-zahir-shah-ur",
    "source/wikidata-zahir-shah"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "2007-07-23",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Died on 23 July 2007 in the Arg compound at Kabul, as all three articles and Wikidata give, and was buried the next day in the royal mausoleum on Maranjan Hill in eastern Kabul. No source gives a Hijri pairing for this date, so none is recorded.",
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    "value": "محمد ظاهر شاه",
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   "edtf": "1914-10-15",
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   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born on 15 October 1914 at Kabul, as the English article (citing Britannica), the Urdu article and Wikidata give. The Arabic article gives 16 October 1914, and the English infobox's own age template also computes from 16 October; the one-day variant is recorded here and the Britannica-backed date is followed. No source gives a Hijri pairing for this date, so none is recorded.",
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   "edtf": "2007-07-23",
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   "note": "Died on 23 July 2007 in the Arg compound at Kabul, as all three articles and Wikidata give, and was buried the next day in the royal mausoleum on Maranjan Hill in eastern Kabul. No source gives a Hijri pairing for this date, so none is recorded.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED: no text names a school for him. The school is named only by one structured family: the English article's infobox value Sunni Islam, the Urdu article's infobox value Sunni (Ahl al-Sunna) in an article that substantially follows the English one, and Wikidata's Sunni value (Q483654) — copies of one structured attestation, which never counts twice. The Arabic article's infobox gives only generic Islam. The English text quotes his regnal title, which speaks of 'the firm religion of Islam': a throne style, not a school attestation. His descent from Mohammad Nadir Shah, his headship of a Muslim state and his dynasty are family and office under the headship line, and per the wave 113–115 Afghan-ruler precedents a Barakzai king's faith is recorded only on two texts naming his personal school. Under the two-source rule and the doubt rule the value therefore stays unknown, with the structured attestations preserved here.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia articles on Mohammad Zahir Shah and his Wikidata item Q152265 (grounded through the English article's page properties, not by name search, and grepped across all data/person files with no match), all read on 27 October 2026, each article fetched by its recorded revision id with equality asserted on a second read; no text names a school for him — Sunni appears only in one structured family (the English and Urdu infoboxes and Wikidata) and the Arabic infobox gives generic Islam — so his faith is unknown FLAGGED. His birth is carried at the Britannica-backed 15 October 1914 with the Arabic article's 16 October variant disclosed. No child_of edge is written: his father Mohammad Nadir Shah has no person record. No spouse edge is written: Queen Humaira Begum has no record; the marriage is in the prose. No succession edges are written, the 1973 coup and the Barakzai sequence being office succession.",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمد ظاهر شاه (15 أكتوبر 1914 - 23 يوليو 2007) هو آخر ملوك أفغانستان؛ حكم من 8 نوفمبر 1933 حتى خلعه في 17 يوليو 1973، فكان أطول ملوك البلاد حكما منذ قيام الإمبراطورية الدرانية، ويُذكَر عهده بوصفه حقبة سلام طويلة. بعد تسعة وعشرين عاما من المنفى في إيطاليا عاد سنة 2002 وحمل لقب أب الأمة حتى وفاته. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد ظاهر شاه في حي ده أفغانان بكابل في الأسرة الموساهيبانية من عشيرة محمد زاي من قبيلة باركزاي، ابنا للملك محمد نادر شاه وماه برور بيغوم. تعطي المقالة العربية مولده في 16 أكتوبر 1914، أي بعد يوم من التاريخ الذي تعطيه المقالة الإنجليزية مستندة إلى بريتانيكا، ويتبع المتحف تاريخ بريتانيكا مع تسجيل المتغير. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en} {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-ar}\n\nتعلّم في مدرستي حبيبية وأمانية (استقلال لاحقا) الثانويتين وفي مدرسة مشاة عسكرية، وأكمل تعليمه في فرنسا حيث درس في معهد باستور وجامعة مونبلييه، ثم عاد ليساعد والده وأعمامه على استعادة النظام. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم",
     "markdown": "نُصّب ملكا في 8 نوفمبر 1933 وهو في التاسعة عشرة بعد اغتيال والده. في العشرين سنة الأولى ترك الحكم الفعلي لعميه محمد هاشم خان وشاه محمود خان رئيسي الحكومة. انضمت أفغانستان إلى عصبة الأمم سنة 1934 وبقيت محايدة في الحرب العالمية الثانية. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}\n\nبعد الحرب دفع التحديث: أُسست أول جامعة حديثة، وجعل دستور 1964 أفغانستان ملكية دستورية بانتخابات حرة وبرلمان وحقوق مدنية وسياسية ومنها حق المرأة في التصويت. وُصف بأنه حاكم متساهل نسبيا لم يوقّع قط حكم إعدام سياسي. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الخلع والمنفى",
     "markdown": "في يوليو 1973، وهو في إيطاليا للعلاج، أطاح به ابن عمه ورئيس حكومته الأسبق محمد داود خان وأعلن الجمهورية. أرسل ظاهر شاه من روما رسالة تنازل قال فيها إنه يحترم إرادة مواطنيه. عاش قرب روما تسعة وعشرين عاما، أولا في شقة صغيرة في فيا كاسيا ثم في فيلا في أولجياتا، ومُنع من العودة في عهد الحكومات الشيوعية ثم في سنوات الحروب. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "العودة والوفاة",
     "markdown": "في 18 أبريل 2002، وهو في السابعة والثمانين، عاد إلى كابل فرحّب به الأفغان من كل الأعراق. في اللويا جيرغا قبل أن يتحمل مسؤولية رئاسة الدولة إن طُلبت منه، لكنه رفض أي استعادة للملكية، ومنحه الرئيس كرزاي لقب أب الأمة. توفي في 23 يوليو 2007 في مجمع الأرغ بكابل، ودُفن في الضريح الملكي على تل مرنجان شرقي كابل. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سجل الإيمان",
     "markdown": "لا يسمي أي مصدر قُرئ لهذا السجل مذهبه في نصه. يُسجَّل إيمانه مجهولا: فالسنية تظهر فقط في عائلة بنيوية واحدة هي صناديق معلومات المقالات الإنجليزية والأردية وقيمة ويكي بيانات، والمقالة العربية تعطي الإسلام العام فقط. الشهادات محفوظة في ملف البيانات. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en} {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-ar} {cite:wikidata-zahir-shah}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة الشخصية",
     "markdown": "تزوج حميراء بيغوم سنة 1931 وتوفيت سنة 2002 بعد عودتهما بقليل، وله منها ثمانية أبناء. عُرف بهدوئه وخفت صوته وحبه التصوير والشطرنج والسيجار. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المذكورة أعلاه، والمسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- كل مراجعة لهذه المقالة تُؤرَّخ وتُسمّي المصدر الذي غيّر كل واقعة."
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
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   "updated": "2026-10-27"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Mohammad Zahir Shah (15 October 1914 – 23 July 2007) was the last king of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until he was deposed on 17 July 1973. Ruling for almost forty years, he was the country's longest-serving ruler since the foundation of the Durrani Empire, and his reign is remembered as a long era of peace. After twenty-nine years of exile in Italy he returned in 2002 and held the title Father of the Nation until his death. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born in the Deh Afghanan quarter of Kabul into the Musahiban family of the Mohammadzai clan of the Barakzai tribe, the son of Mohammad Nadir Shah and Mah Parwar Begum. The Arabic article gives his birth as 16 October 1914, one day later than the English article's Britannica-backed date, which the museum follows. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en} {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-ar}\n\nHe was educated at Habibia and Amaniya (later Esteqlal) high schools in Kabul and at a military infantry school, and continued his education in France, studying at the Pasteur Institute and the University of Montpellier, before returning to help his father and uncles restore order. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Reign",
     "markdown": "He was proclaimed king on 8 November 1933, aged nineteen, after the assassination of his father. For the first twenty years he ceded effective power to his uncles Mohammad Hashim Khan and Shah Mahmud Khan as prime ministers. Afghanistan joined the League of Nations in 1934 and remained neutral in the Second World War. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}\n\nAfter the war he pursued modernisation: a first modern university was founded, and the 1964 constitution made Afghanistan a constitutional monarchy with free elections, a parliament and civil and political rights, including women's suffrage. He was considered a relatively lenient ruler who never signed a political execution warrant. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Deposition and exile",
     "markdown": "In July 1973, while he was in Italy for medical treatment, his cousin and former prime minister Mohammad Daoud Khan overthrew the monarchy and proclaimed a republic. From Rome he sent a letter abdicating, saying he respected the will of his compatriots. He lived near Rome for twenty-nine years, first in a small apartment on the Via Cassia and later in a villa in Olgiata, and was barred from returning by the communist governments and then by the wars that followed. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Return and death",
     "markdown": "On 18 April 2002, aged eighty-seven, he returned to Kabul and was welcomed by Afghans of all ethnic groups. At the Loya Jirga he accepted the role of head of state if demanded of him but renounced any restoration of the monarchy, and President Karzai gave him the title Father of the Nation. He died on 23 July 2007 in the Arg compound in Kabul, and was buried in the royal mausoleum on Maranjan Hill in eastern Kabul. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Faith record",
     "markdown": "No source read for this record names his school in its text. His faith is recorded as unknown: Sunni appears only in one structured family — the English and Urdu infoboxes and the Wikidata value — and the Arabic infobox gives generic Islam. The attestations are preserved in the data file. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en} {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-ar} {cite:wikidata-zahir-shah}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Personal life",
     "markdown": "He married Humaira Begum in 1931; she died in 2002, shortly after their return. They had eight children. He was known as a quiet, soft-spoken man who liked photography, chess and cigars. {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact."
    }
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "محمد ظاہر شاہ (15 اکتوبر 1914ء – 23 جولائی 2007ء) افغانستان کے آخری بادشاہ تھے؛ انھوں نے 8 نومبر 1933ء سے 17 جولائی 1973ء میں معزولی تک حکومت کی، اور ان کا دور ملک کا طویل ترین پرامن دور مانا جاتا ہے۔ وہ بادشاہ محمد نادر شاہ کے بیٹے تھے، اٹلی میں انتیس سال جلاوطن رہے، 2002ء میں لوٹے اور وفات تک «بابائے قوم» کا لقب رکھا۔ {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی سال اور دورِ حکومت",
     "markdown": "وہ کابل میں پیدا ہوئے؛ عربی مضمون ان کی پیدائش 16 اکتوبر 1914ء دیتا ہے، انگریزی مضمون کے بریٹانیکا مستند 15 اکتوبر سے ایک دن بعد، اور عجائب گھر بریٹانیکا کی تاریخ کی پیروی کرتا ہے۔ انھوں نے کابل اور فرانس میں تعلیم پائی۔ انیس سال کی عمر میں والد کے قتل کے بعد بادشاہ بنے؛ پہلے بیس سال اقتدار ان کے چچاؤں محمد ہاشم خان اور شاہ محمود خان کے پاس رہا۔ ان کے دور میں افغانستان اقوام کی لیگ میں شامل ہوا، دوسری جنگِ عظیم میں غیر جانبدار رہا، اور 1964ء کے آئین نے ملک کو آئینی بادشاہت بنایا جس میں خواتین کو ووٹ کا حق ملا۔ {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en} {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "معزولی، وطن واپسی اور وفات",
     "markdown": "جولائی 1973ء میں جب وہ علاج کے لیے اٹلی میں تھے تو ان کے چچا زاد محمد داؤد خان نے بادشاہت ختم کر کے جمہوریہ کا اعلان کیا؛ ظاہر شاہ نے روم سے تخت چھوڑنے کا خط بھیجا۔ 18 اپریل 2002ء کو وہ کابل لوٹے، لويا جرگے میں بادشاہت کی بحالی سے انکار کیا، اور صدر کرزئی نے انھیں «بابائے قوم» کا لقب دیا۔ 23 جولائی 2007ء کو کابل میں وفات پائی اور مشرقی کابل کے کوہِ مرنجان کے شاہی مقبرے میں دفن ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مذہبی ریکارڈ",
     "markdown": "اس ریکارڈ کے لیے پڑھا گیا کوئی ماخذ ان کے مذہب کا نام اپنے متن میں نہیں لیتا۔ ان کا ایمان «نامعلوم» درج ہے: «سنی» صرف ایک بناوٹی خاندان میں آتا ہے — انگریزی اور اردو خانہ معلومات اور ویکی ڈیٹا کی قدر — اور عربی خانہ معلومات صرف عمومی «اسلام» دیتا ہے۔ شہادتیں ڈیٹا فائل میں محفوظ ہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-en} {cite:wikipedia-zahir-shah-ar} {cite:wikidata-zahir-shah}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- اوپر جن متعین ماخذوں کا حوالہ دیا گیا ہے، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مضمون کی ہر نظرثانی مؤرخہ ہوگی اور ہر تبدیلی کا ماخذ نامزد کرے گی۔"
    }
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