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Akhi Brotherhoods

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “crucial part of the urban development and infrastructure of early ottoman history”. Today it says “kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Structure; Disposition and beliefs; Influence”.
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Akhi Brotherhoods (Akhiya or Young Brotherhood) were a crucial part of the urban development and infrastructure of early Ottoman history . The brotherhoods were formed out of the medieval Islamic futuwwa organizations. The purpose of each brotherhood was to provide an infrastructure for production and trade in the town in which it was set up and provide a social framework for the men of town.1

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “crucial part of the urban development and infrastructure of early ottoman history”. Today it says “kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Structure; Disposition and beliefs; Influence”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

crucial part of the urban development and infrastructure of early ottoman history

Now

kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the ta

Sections that no longer exist

This section existed on October 6, 2023. It is gone today. The current article has no similar heading in its place, and the article is shorter overall. So this is not a heading that got renamed, and it is not a topic that got folded into a bigger section. 3 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 3,844 characters shorter.

  • Structure
  • Disposition and beliefs
  • Influence
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