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Safura Begum

Bangladeshi politician, Member of parliament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ55694344 ↗
Source-derived summary

Safura Begum (Bengali: সফুরা বেগম) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of the Bangladesh Parliament from a reserved seat.

Early life

Begum was born on 11 March 1959. She graduated with a law degree.

Career

Begum was elected to parliament from a reserved seat as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2014.

Editorial summary

“Safura Begum” enters the record as bangladeshi politician, Member of parliament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Safura, Begum and Bangladeshi can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-03-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Safura, Begum and Bangladeshi.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Safura Begum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Safura, Begum and Bangladeshi 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 Apr 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q55694344. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959 and 2014.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

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 “Safura Begum”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Safura Begum primary sources, Safura Begum archive and Safura 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 “Safura Begum”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Safura Begum” 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.