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  "ar": "أبو الوفاء — ماكتوتر",
  "en": "Abu al-Wafa — MacTutor",
  "ur": "ابو الوفا — میک ٹیوٹر"
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  "ar": "سيرة للأعمال الحسابية والهندسية والجدولية؛ لا تعتمد اختصاراتها السياسية أو دعوى أول ظل بلا مقارنة.",
  "en": "Biography of arithmetic, geometry and tables; political shorthand and first-tangent claim are not adopted uncritically.",
  "ur": "حساب، ہندسہ اور جدولوں کی سوانح؛ سیاسی اختصار اور اولین ظل کا دعویٰ بلا تقابل نہیں اپنائے۔"
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 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
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  "type": "article",
  "title": "Mohammad Abu'l-Wafa Al-Buzjani",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "O'Connor",
    "given": "J. J."
   },
   {
    "family": "Robertson",
    "given": "E. F."
   }
  ],
  "publisher": "MacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews",
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     1999,
     11
    ]
   ]
  },
  "language": "en",
  "URL": "https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abul-Wafa/",
  "open_access": true,
  "reliability_note": "Actual complete body, bibliography/update read. Claims of first tangent and Buyid rulers called caliphs are not adopted; compare older Habash use and actual political context. Sources disagree on practical-arithmetic composition dates. Bibliography links are not all read; DSB linked PDF read separately and defined.",
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
   "model": "unknown",
   "run": "inventions-p3-b34",
   "source": "Actual biography/bibliography/update, limits identified rather than silently copied"
  }
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 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-06",
 "connections": [],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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