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 "id": "source/simerg-velshi-small-acts-2024",
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 "slug": "simerg-velshi-small-acts-2024",
 "label": {
  "en": "Ali Velshi's Small Acts of Courage — Simerg review"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مراجعة منصور لادها في موقع «سيمرغ» لمذكرات علي فيلشي «أعمال شجاعة صغيرة» (2024)، وتصف فيلشي بأنه «مسلم إسماعيلي» له صفحات في كتابه عن الطائفة وإمامها.",
  "en": "Mansoor Ladha's Simerg review of Ali Velshi's memoir Small Acts of Courage (2024), which calls Velshi 'an Ismaili Muslim' with pages in his book dedicated to the community and its Imam."
 },
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 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "web",
  "title": "Ali Velshi's Small Acts of Courage: A Journey to Freedom",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Ladha",
    "given": "Mansoor"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2024,
     7,
     16
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Simerg – Insights from Around the World, posted 16 July 2024",
  "URL": "https://simerg.com/2024/07/15/books-by-ismaili-authors-a-brief-note-on-small-acts-of-courage-by-award-winning-author-and-journalist-ali-velshi/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "A book review by the journalist Mansoor Ladha on Simerg, a site devoted to Ismaili Muslim life, read in full on the site on 1 November 2026 and independent of the encyclopedia tradition. Reviewing Velshi's own memoir, it states that 'Velshi, an Ismaili Muslim, has a few pages dedicated to the community and their 49th Hereditary Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan', and recounts the pages in which Velshi describes the Ismaili community's hierarchy and outlook. Used, alongside the English Wikipedia article and its cited Toronto Star profile, for his Ismaili attestation.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-01",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}