Hafez al-Assad — Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic Wikipedia article on Hafez al-Assad; used for entity facts only. It agrees on his birth at Qardaha on 6 October 1930 and his death on 10 June 2000, records his birth to a poor Alawite family of the Alawite sect and calls him the first Alawite Ba'athist president in Syrian history; its infobox gives his religion as Islam in general.