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Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “head of an abadite dynasty”. Today it says “ibadi leader and the first imam associated with the polity later known as the rustamid imamate in the maghreb”.
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam was the first imam of the Imamate of Tahart and the founder of Rustamid dynasty , which existed in central Maghrib from about 776 or 778 CE to 908 CE. He was also the founder of the new Tahert.1
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “head of an abadite dynasty”. Today it says “ibadi leader and the first imam associated with the polity later known as the rustamid imamate in the maghreb”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
head of an abadite dynasty
Now
ibadi leader and the first imam associated with the polity later known as the rustamid imamate in the maghreb
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