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Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “iranian twelver shi'a marja”. Today it says “iranian twelver shi'a marja'”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Grand Ayatollah Sayyid”. It now reads “Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1921-2013) Grand Ayatollah Sayyid”.
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Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani (Persian: السید محمد عزالدین حسيني زنجانی) (born 1921) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja .1 He has studied in seminaries of Qum , Iran under Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi and Ruhollah Khomeini , and also in seminaries of Najaf , Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “iranian twelver shi'a marja”. Today it says “iranian twelver shi'a marja'”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Grand Ayatollah Sayyid”. It now reads “Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1921-2013) Grand Ayatollah Sayyid”. Read the current article and compare.
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iranian twelver shi'a marja
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iranian twelver shi'a marja'
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