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Five Martyrs of Shia Islam
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “five ulema of shi'i islam”. Today it says “five scholars”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Five Martyrs. A leading work on the biographies of the martyrs was Shuhada-e Khamsa kay Halaat-e Zindagi ("Five Martyr's condition of life") by Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi . Satellite Town, Sargodha: Maktaba Sibtain. p. ix .
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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “five ulema of shi'i islam”. Today it says “five scholars”. Read the current article and compare.
| 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
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| jihad | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| martyr | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
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Then
five ulema of shi'i islam
Now
five scholars
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