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  "en": "Sangemeel: Emergence of Hinduism in Gandhara — author biography"
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  "ar": "صفحة الناشر ⁦(سنغميل)⁩ لكتاب عبد الصمد «نشأة الهندوسية في غاندهارا: تحليلات للثقافة المادية» (2020)، وفيها سيرة المؤلف التي تذكر أنه وُلد سنة 1981، ونال الدكتوراه من ألمانيا بامتياز، وأكمل زمالة فولبرايت لما بعد الدكتوراه في جامعة ويسكونسن بالولايات المتحدة، ثم عُيّن مديرا للآثار والمتاحف في خيبر بختونخوا، وحاز وسام فخر الأداء سنة 2018.",
  "en": "Publisher's (Sangemeel) page for Abdul Samad's book Emergence of Hinduism in Gandhara: Analyses of Material Culture (2020), carrying the book's 'About the Author' biography: born in 1981; PhD with distinction from Germany; Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, USA; appointed provincial director of archaeology and museums in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; awarded the President's Pride of Performance in 2018."
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  "title": "Emergence of Hinduism in Gandhara (author biography)",
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     2020
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  "publisher": "Sangemeel Publications (sangemeel.shop)",
  "URL": "https://sangemeel.shop/products/emergence-of-hinduism-in-gandhara",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "The book's own author biography as reproduced on the publisher's sales page, read in full on 31 October 2026. It is the only source found that states a birth year for him (1981); the same biography calls him Pakistan's youngest archaeology PhD at 28, which against a 2011 doctorate would imply 1982–83, so the year is recorded as debated. It names no faith for him; his book's subject — the emergence of Hinduism in ancient Gandhara — is his scholarly field, never his faith.",
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