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Nasir Khusraw

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “scholar”. Today it says “iranian isma'ili poet”.
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Nasir Khusraw (also written as Nasir Khusrao or Nasir-i-Khusraw) was a scholar, Persian poet and an Ismaili Pir or theologian, who was especially well-known in the northern areas of Pakistan , parts of China, Afghanistan and Central Asia. He was born in 1004 , in Qubadiyan , Afghanistan / Tajikistan . He died in 1089 and was buried in Yumgan , Afghanistan.1

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In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “scholar”. Today it says “iranian isma'ili poet”. Read the current article and compare.
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scholar

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iranian isma'ili poet

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