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  "ur": "سلیمانیہ"
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   "source": "Wikidata item Q191204 (labels, coordinates, country), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.",
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   "model": "Devin (Cognition)",
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  }
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 "degree": 18,
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 "updated": "2026-11-09",
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   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   "note": "Imam of the Behesht (Bahasht) Mosque in Sulaymaniyah and, until July 2026, a lecturer at the College of Islamic Sciences, University of Sulaimani there."
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   "to": "person/abdulwahid-muhammed-salih",
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   "note": "Sulaymaniyah is his base as the wave-199 harvest identifies him — a Sorani Friday preacher of Sulaymaniyah whose sermons the 2025 journal study took from his YouTube channel."
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   "to": "person/peshawa-qadir-al-kurdi",
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   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "The Sulaymaniyah imamate rests on a single reciter-directory profile (AlQuranAudio); the wave-199 harvest settled his base as the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and left the city otherwise unresolved."
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