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Maliaman Kassim

Malaysian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ85981575 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maliaman bin Kassim (born 3 February 1963) is a Malaysian politician and teacher who has served as Member of the Terengganu State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar and Member of the Terengganu State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Ajil since May 2018. He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the PN coalition. He is also the elected representative and election winner with the smallest ever majority in the electoral history of Terengganu and Malaysia, narrowly winning the Ajil state seat by a majority of only 4 votes in the 2018 Terengganu state election.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Maliaman Kassim” as malaysian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Maliaman, Kassim and Malaysian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as malaysian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Apr 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85981575. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963 and 2018.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Maliaman Kassim primary sources, Maliaman Kassim archive and Maliaman 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maliaman Kassim” 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.