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Kaukab Noorani Okarvi
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “islamic scholar”. Today it says “pakistani religious scholar and writer of ahle-sunnat wa jamaa’at sunni”.
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Kaukab Noorani Okarvi ( Urdu : کوکب نورانی اوکاڑوی ; born 17 August 1957) is a Pakistani religious scholar and writer of Ahle-Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at Sunni. He is the son of Muhammad Shafee Okarvi , who was the founder of the Jamaat Ahle Sunnat , the main Barelvi organisation of Pakistan. Deoband to Bareilly: The Truth .
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islamic scholar
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pakistani religious scholar and writer of ahle-sunnat wa jamaa’at sunni
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