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Essam Abu Touk

footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ5399341 ↗
Source-derived summary

Essam Abu Touq (born September 19, 1977) is a retired Jordanian footballer who currently coaches the football team of the American University of Sharjah.

Editorial summary

“Essam Abu Touk” enters the record as footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Essam, Touk and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-09-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Essam, Touk and footballer.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Essam Abu Touk” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Essam, Touk and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5399341. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Essam Abu Touk”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Essam Abu Touk primary sources, Essam Abu Touk archive and Essam research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Essam Abu Touk”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Essam Abu Touk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.