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Husain Mohammad Jafri
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “chairman of islamic pakistan study centre”. Today it says “pakistani historian”.
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Husain Mohammad Jafri was a Pakistani historian.1 He served as the chairman of the Pakistan Study Centre , University of Karachi . He died in January 2019. He was the author of The Origins and Early Development of Shi'a Islam .
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chairman of islamic pakistan study centre
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pakistani historian
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