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 "slug": "eaalim-bilal-philips",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بلال فيليبس — ملف معهد العليم",
  "en": "Bilal Philips — Eaalim Institute profile"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ملف معهد «العليم» البريطاني التعليمي عن بلال فيليبس: يصفه بأنه عالم سني جامايكي-كندي مؤسس للجامعة الإسلامية المفتوحة عبر الإنترنت، ويذكر نصا أنه «يعمل ضمن التقليد السني ذي النزعة السلفية»، ويروي اعتناقه الإسلام سنة 1972 ودراسته في المدينة المنورة والرياض وجامعة ويلز.",
  "en": "The UK Eaalim Institute's profile of Bilal Philips: it calls him a Jamaican-Canadian Sunni scholar and founder of the Islamic Online University, states in terms that he 'works within the Salafi-leaning Sunni tradition', and narrates his embrace of Islam in 1972 and his studies at Madinah, Riyadh and the University of Wales."
 },
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  "type": "web",
  "title": "Bilal Philips",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Eaalim Institute",
    "given": ""
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2026,
     10,
     26
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Eaalim Institute, consulted 26 October 2026 (profile dated 22 December 2025)",
  "URL": "https://eaalim.com/blogs/islamic/bilal-philips",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "An independent UK online institute's profile, read in full on 26 October 2026; used only for its naming of his tradition (a Sunni scholar working within the Salafi-leaning Sunni tradition). It conflicts with the English Wikipedia article on his birth day (6 January against 17 July 1947) and his PhD year (1994), and is not used for any date.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-26",
 "connections": [],
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}