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David Benjamin Keldani
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “catholic priest who converted to islam and adopted the name abd ul-aḥad dāwūd”. Today it says “chaldean catholic priest who converted to islam”.
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David Benjamin Keldani (1867 – c .1940), later known as Abd al-Ahad Dawud ( Arabic : عبد الأحد داود , romanized : Abd al-Aḥad Dāwūd ) was a Chaldean Catholic priest who converted to Islam . He is famous for his book Muhammad in Bible .
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Then
catholic priest who converted to islam and adopted the name abd ul-aḥad dāwūd
Now
chaldean catholic priest who converted to islam
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