Wikipedia's first sentence called it “turkish dervish of the gülşeni order most famously noted for inventing the first known non-european conlang”. Today it says “turkish scholar and author who worked and lived in the ottoman empire”.
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Muhyi Muhammad Gulshani ibn Fath-Allah ibn Abu Talib , best known as Muhyi Gulshani (born c. 1528 – died after 1606/7) was a Oghuz Turks scholar and author who worked and lived in the Ottoman Empire . He wrote in Turkish and Persian . Due to his excellent command of Persian, Gulshani was known to his Turkish contemporaries as Acem-i Küçük . He was also known by the Turks as Acem Fethioglu , Muhyi Celebi and Dervish Muhyi . In addition to his literary output, Gulshani may have been the inventor of Balaibalan , a constructed language. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Muhyi-i Gülşeni (1528–1604) was a Turkish dervish of the Gülşeni order most famously noted for inventing the first known non-European Conlang , Balaibalan ( Turkish Bâleybelen ) Born in Edirne to a family originally from Shiraz . A member of the Gülşenî sufi order in Cairo, Mehmed Muhyî-i was helped in the creation of Bâleybelen by several other Gülşenî figures. He died in Cairo . v t e
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Muhyi-i Gülşeni (1528–1604) was a Turkish dervish of the Gülşeni order most famously noted for inventing the first known non-European Conlang , Balaibalan ( Turkish Bâleybelen ) Born in Edirne to a family originally from Shiraz . A member of the Gülşenî sufi order in Cairo, Mehmed Muhyî-i was helped in the creation of Bâleybelen by several other Gülşenî figures. He died in Cairo . v t e
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Turkish dervish Muhyi-i Gülşeni (1528–1604) was a Turkish dervish of the Gülşeni tariqa (Sufi order) most famously noted for inventing the first known non-European constructed language , Balaibalan ( Turkish Bâleybelen ) Born in Edirne to a family originally from Shiraz .A member of the Gülşenî tariqa in Cairo , Muhyi-i Gülşeni was helped in the creation of Balaibalan by several other Gülşenî figures. He died in Cairo. v t e
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Muhyi Muhammad Gulshani ibn Fath-Allah ibn Abu Talib , best known as Muhyi Gulshani (born 1528 – died after 1606/7) was a Turkish scholar and author who worked and lived in the Ottoman Empire .He wrote in Turkish and Persian .Due to his excellent command of Persian, Gulshani was known to his Turkish contemporaries as Acem-i Küçük .He was also known by the Turks as Acem Fethioglu , Muhyi Celebi and Dervish Muhyi .In addition to his literary output, Gulshani may have been the inventor of Balaibalan , a constructed language.There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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turkish dervish of the gülşeni order most famously noted for inventing the first known non-european conlang
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turkish scholar and author who worked and lived in the ottoman empire
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