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Juan Andrés (convert)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “name chosen by a moorish scholar”. Today it says “name chosen by a spanish muslim scholar who converted to catholicism and wrote a well known polemical work agai”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Spanish Muslim scholar and convert”. It now reads “Spanish Muslim scholar and convert to Catholicism”.
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Juan Andrés ( Latin : Joannes Andreas ; fl. 1487–1515 ), is the name chosen by a Spanish Muslim scholar who converted to Catholicism and wrote a well known polemical work against Islam , Confusion or Confutation of the Mohammedan Sect and of the Qur'an ( Spanish : Confusión o confutación de la secta mahomética y del Alcorán ). Juan Andrés, Confusión o confutación de la secta mahomética y del Alcorán , edited by Elisa Ruiz García (Salamanca, 2003).

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “name chosen by a moorish scholar”. Today it says “name chosen by a spanish muslim scholar who converted to catholicism and wrote a well known polemical work agai”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Spanish Muslim scholar and convert”. It now reads “Spanish Muslim scholar and convert to Catholicism”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

name chosen by a moorish scholar

Now

name chosen by a spanish muslim scholar who converted to catholicism and wrote a well known polemical work agai

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