Wikipedia's first sentence called it “renowned muslim scholar and a proponent of salafism”. Today it says “yemeni -born islamic scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Yemeni Islamic Salafi scholar (1933-2001)”. It now reads “Yemeni-born Islamic scholar (1933–2001)”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Muqbil ibn Hadi ibn Muqbil (1933 – 21 July 2001), commonly known as al-Wadi'i , was a Yemeni Islamic scholar . He was the founder of a madrasa in Dammaj which was known as a centre for Salafi ideology. Muqbil was noted for his fierce criticisms of the Egyptian Islamist writer Sayyid Qutb . 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 ). Hadi al-Wa'di (d.1422H) From The Reckless Lie of 'Jihadi-Salafi' " . If you find a person loving.. Rabee' ibn Haadee, Muhammad Amaan al-Jaamee (rahimahullaah), Muqbil bin Haadee (rahimahullaah), Zayd al-Madkhalee, Ubaid al-Jaabiree and their likes, then know he is a man of Sunnah, for loving them is a distinguishing sign of ahlus-Sunnah. And having hatred and enmity for them is a distinguishing sign of ahlul-bid'ah.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Shaikh Muqbil bin Haadee Al-Waadi’ee (19??-2001) ( ) was a renowned Muslim scholar and a proponent of Salafism .
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Muqbil bin Hadi bin Muqbil bin Qa’idah al-Hamdani al-Wadi’i al-Khallali (1933-2001) ( ) was a Sunni Muslim Islamic scholar and considered to be the reviver of salafism in Yemen.He was the founder of a Madrasa in Dammaj which was known as a center for Salafist ideology and its multi-national student population.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Muqbil bin Hadi bin Muqbil bin Qa’idah al-Hamdani al-Wadi’i al-Khallali (1933–2001) ( ) was an Islamic scholar and considered to be the reviver of Salafism in Yemen. He was the founder of a Madrasa in Dammaj which was known as a center for Salafist ideology and its multi-national student population.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Yemeni Islamic Salafi scholar (1933-2001) Muqbil bin Hadi bin Muqbil bin Qa’idah al-Hamdani al-Wadi’i al-Khallali (1933 – 21 July 2001) ( ) was an Islamic scholar and a major proponent of Quietist Salafism in Yemen .He was the founder of a Madrasa in Dammaj which was known as a centre for Salafi ideology and its multi-national student population.Muqbil was noted for his fierce criticisms of the Egyptian Islamist scholar Sayyid Qutb .Hadi al-Wa'di (d.1422H) From The Reckless Lie of 'Jihadi-Salafi' " .If you find a person loving..Rabee' ibn Haadee, Muhammad Amaan al-Jaamee (rahimahullaah), Muqbil bin Haadee (rahimahullaah), Zayd al-Madkhalee, Ubaid al-Jaabiree and their likes, then know he is a man of Sunnah, for loving them is a distinguishing sign of ahlus-Sunnah.And having hatred and enmity for them is a distinguishing sign of ahlul-bid'ah.
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “renowned muslim scholar and a proponent of salafism”. Today it says “yemeni -born islamic scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Yemeni Islamic Salafi scholar (1933-2001)”. It now reads “Yemeni-born Islamic scholar (1933–2001)”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
renowned muslim scholar and a proponent of salafism
Now
yemeni -born islamic scholar
Where the word went
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“islamist” was in the opening on October 6, 2023. Today 2 remain, 40% of the way down the article.
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