Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born on 29 march 1957 in damascus”. Today it says “successor and oldest son of sultan-ul awliya shaykh nazim al-haqqani and hajjah amina adil”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Syrian Sufi teacher and leader (born 1957) Shaykh”. It now reads “Syrian Sufi teacher and leader (born 1957) Muhammad Adil , also”.
Found by software in Wikipedia's own edit history. Not yet read by hand. The quoted words are Wikipedia's.
Compared with the live article on 2026-08-04.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2020 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2020
He is the successor and oldest son of Sultanul Awliya Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani ar-Rabbani (QS) and Hajja Amina Adil Sultan Hanim and the current spiritual leader of the Naqshabandi Sufi order.1 Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age .
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 954726843.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Syrian Sufi teacher and leader (born 1957) Shaykh Mehmet 'Ádil was born on 29 March 1957 in Damascus , Shām .He is the successor and oldest son of Sultan-ul 'Awliyá Sheikh Muhammad Nazim 'Ádil al-Haqqání and Hajjah Amina 'Ádil Sultan Hánim , and the current spiritual leader (grandshaykh) of the Haqqani branch of the Naqshbandi Sufi order . Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1172854872.
The opening as it stood in 2025
Syrian Sufi teacher and leader (born 1957) Shaykh Mehmet 'Adil was born on 29 March 1957 in Damascus , Shām . He is the successor and oldest son of Sultan-ul 'Awliya Sheikh Muhammad Nazim 'Ádil al-Haqqání and Hajjah Amina 'Ádil Sultan Hánim , and the current spiritual leader (grandshaykh) of the Haqqani branch of the Naqshbandi Sufi order . Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1293630262. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born on 29 march 1957 in damascus”. Today it says “successor and oldest son of sultan-ul awliya shaykh nazim al-haqqani and hajjah amina adil”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Syrian Sufi teacher and leader (born 1957) Shaykh”. It now reads “Syrian Sufi teacher and leader (born 1957) Muhammad Adil , also”. Read the current article and compare.
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2020, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
born on 29 march 1957 in damascus
Now
successor and oldest son of sultan-ul awliya shaykh nazim al-haqqani and hajjah amina adil
Sections that no longer exist
This section existed on October 6, 2023. It is gone today. The current article has no similar heading in its place, and the article is shorter overall. So this is not a heading that got renamed, and it is not a topic that got folded into a bigger section. 1 section of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 252 characters shorter.
Biography
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.