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Ahmad Hindi

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “twelver shia muslim scholar”. Today it says “indian-born iranian twelver shia muslim cleric”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Indian Twelver Shia Muslim scholar (1800–1869)”. It now reads “Indian Twelver Shia Muslim scholar (1800–1869) Syed”.
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Ahmad Musavi Hindi (سید احمد مسوی ہندی; born circa 1790, died 1869) was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar.1 He was the paternal grandfather of the Supreme leader of the Iranian Revolution , Ruhollah Khomeini .2

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “twelver shia muslim scholar”. Today it says “indian-born iranian twelver shia muslim cleric”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Indian Twelver Shia Muslim scholar (1800–1869)”. It now reads “Indian Twelver Shia Muslim scholar (1800–1869) Syed”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

twelver shia muslim scholar

Now

indian-born iranian twelver shia muslim cleric

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