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Also Known As Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Ṣafdar al-Ḥusayn • Jamāl al-Dīn, al-Asadābādi
Born 1838 • Persia
Died March 9, 1897 (aged 59) • Istanbul • Ottoman Empire

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