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Ma malakat aymanukum and sex

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “term for slaves”. Today it says “redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject”.
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The opening as it read in 2010

Ma malakat aymanukum is the term for slaves, which may be captives of war. A male master may have sexual intercourse with his female slave, making a Ma malakat aymanukum and spouses the only category of people a man may have sexual intercourse with.1

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “term for slaves”. Today it says “redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

term for slaves

Now

redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject

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