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 "slug": "thenational-kazi-publications",
 "label": {
  "en": "The National, 'Islamic publishing house flourishes in US' (David Lepeska, about 2011)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "تقرير لديفيد ليبيسكا في صحيفة «ذا ناشونال» عن دار كازي للنشر في شيكاغو: بداياتها نحو 1970 وإدارة لياقت علي لها منذ 1972، وأول كتاب نشرته سنة 1974، وانتقالها إلى شارع بلمونت سنة 1984، وعمل ليلى بختيار فيها منذ 1992، و«القرآن السامي» الذي نشرته أوائل 2007.",
  "en": "A report by David Lepeska in The National on Kazi Publications of Chicago: its beginnings around 1970 and Liaquat Ali's running of it from 1972, its first published book in 1974, its move to Belmont Avenue in 1984, Laleh Bakhtiar's work there from 1992, and The Sublime Quran, published in early 2007.",
  "ur": "ذا نیشنل میں ڈیوڈ لیپیسکا کی رپورٹ، شکاگو کی کازی پبلیکیشنز پر: تقریباً 1970 میں آغاز، 1972 سے لیاقت علی کی نگرانی، 1974 میں پہلی شائع شدہ کتاب، 1984 میں بیلمونٹ ایونیو منتقلی، 1992 سے لیلیٰ بختیار کا کام، اور 2007 کے اوائل میں شائع ہونے والا «دی سبلائم قرآن»۔"
 },
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 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "article",
  "title": "Islamic publishing house flourishes in US",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Lepeska",
    "given": "David"
   }
  ],
  "publisher": "The National (Abu Dhabi)",
  "URL": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/the-americas/islamic-publishing-house-flourishes-in-us-1.436788",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Signed feature in a national daily, read in full in Chrome on 6 November 2026. The page shows no date; the text says the next year would mark Kazi's fortieth year and that Bakhtiar's next book was planned for 2012, so it was written about 2011; no issued date is recorded. Used for Kazi's founding story (around 1970; 1972; first book, Book of Muslim Names, 1974), its status as the oldest Islamic publisher in Chicago and perhaps North America, revenue figures as Liaquat Ali gave them, the Belmont Avenue shop (1984), its great books programme, Laleh Bakhtiar's biography and role, and The Sublime Quran (early 2007) with its reception (Esposito, Aslan, Dave Eggers in O magazine at Christmas 2009, traditionalist objections), attributed.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-06",
 "connections": [],
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}