Wikipedia's first sentence called it “number of muslim commentaries of the tahawiyyah including ones by qādī ismā‘īl ibn ibrāhīm al-shaybānī”. Today it says “popular exposition of sunni muslim doctrine written by the tenth-century egyptian theologian and hanafi jurist”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
There are a number of Muslim commentaries of the Tahawiyyah including ones by Isma'il ibn Ibrahim al-Shaybani (d. 629 AH), Najm al-Din Mankubars (d. 652 AH), Shuja' al-Din al-Turkistani (d. 733 AH), Siraj al-Din al-Ghaznawi (d. 773 AH), Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 786 AH), Ibn Abi al-Izz (792 AH), 'Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani (d. 1298 AH), Abdullah al-Harari (d. 1429 AH), Omar Abdullah Kamel (d. 1436 AH), and Sa'id Foudah. It comprises 105 key points that list the essential matters in the creed of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah .1 Cornell, Voices of Islam: Voices of tradition, p 208. Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition) .2
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The opening as it stood in 2015
There are a number of Muslim commentaries of the Tahawiyyah including ones by Qādī Ismā‘īl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shaybānī (d. 629 AH), Abū Hafs Sirāj al-Dīn al-Ghaznawī (d. 773 AH), Ibn Abī l-ʿIzz (792 AH), 'Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani (d. 1298 AH) and Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz (d. 1420). It comprises 105 key points that list the essential matters in the creed of the Ahlus Sunnah wa`l Jama`ah . Cornell, Voices of Islam: Voices of tradition, p 208. Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition) .
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Book by Hanafi jurist Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya ( ) or Bayan al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a ( ) is a popular exposition of Sunni Muslim doctrine written by the tenth-century Egyptian theologian and Hanafi jurist Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi . Cornell, Voices of Islam: Voices of tradition, p 208.
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Book by Hanafi jurist Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya ( Arabic : العقيدة الطحاوية ) or Bayan al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a ( Arabic : بيان السنة والجماعة , lit. ' Exposition of Sunna and the Position of the Majority ' ) is a popular exposition of Sunni Muslim doctrine written by the tenth-century Egyptian theologian and Hanafi jurist Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi . Cornell, Voices of Islam: Voices of tradition, p 208.
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number of muslim commentaries of the tahawiyyah including ones by qādī ismā‘īl ibn ibrāhīm al-shaybānī
Now
popular exposition of sunni muslim doctrine written by the tenth-century egyptian theologian and hanafi jurist
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