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Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “religious scholar and former egyptian minister of endowments”. Today it says “islamic scholar”.
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Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi ( ) (April 15, 1911 – June 17, 1998) was an Islamic scholar , former Egyptian minister of Endowments and Maliki jurist.1 He has been called one of Egypt's most popular and successful Islamic preachers, and "one of the most prominent symbols of popular Egyptian culture" in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
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religious scholar and former egyptian minister of endowments
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islamic scholar
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