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Ibn Ashir
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “prominent jurist in the maliki school from fes”. Today it says “maghrebi jurist in the maliki school from fez”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “17th-century Moroccan theologian and jurist”. It now reads “Moroccan Islamic scholar (1582–1631)”.
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Ibn Ashir (1582 – 1631 CE) ( AH 990 – 1042 AH ) known as Imam Ibn Ashir or simply Ibn Ashir was a prominent Moroccan jurist in the Maliki school from Fez , Morocco. His Murshid al-Mu'een is arguably the best known of the Maliki texts in the Islamic world. It is still widely sung and memorised in madrasas and Quranic schools throughout North Africa to this day.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “prominent jurist in the maliki school from fes”. Today it says “maghrebi jurist in the maliki school from fez”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “17th-century Moroccan theologian and jurist”. It now reads “Moroccan Islamic scholar (1582–1631)”. Read the current article and compare.
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prominent jurist in the maliki school from fes
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maghrebi jurist in the maliki school from fez
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