Wikipedia's first sentence called it “mountain village in the buner district of the north-west frontier province of pakistan”. Today it says “sufi pir who settled in buner in present-day khyber pakhtunkhwa”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Muslim Saint Sufi Sayyid Ali Tirmizi ( Pashto : سيد علي ترمذي ), more commonly known as”. It now reads “Muslim Saint Sufi Syed Ali Tirmizi ( Pashto : سيد علي ترمذي ), more commonly known as”.
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He was probably born in 908 AH (1502 CE), in Fergana (present-day Uzbekistan ), of Sayyid descent, died in AH 991 (1583 CE). He was a supporter of the Mughal emperor Babar , and was an opponent of Bayazid Pir Roshan .1It is claimed that Pir Baba was the son of Sayyid Qamar Ali, who was in emperor Babur's army and had come down to Delhi as the governor of the Indian state. His mother was of Uzbek origin. Baba was more inclined towards Islamic studies. Baba supposedly married a sister of Daulat Khan a Yusufzai ; a respected Pashtun from Buner . Anwar Baig Baghi, a descendant of Pir Baba in his 12th generation, made news because "he could read only up to fifth grade but he penned down over 50 books on a variety of topics." Shodago Baba Ji was also one of his descendants. His descendants are also known as Tirmizi Sayyids .2
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Pir Baba Village ( ) is a mountain village in the Buner District of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan . Pir Baba Village is named after the great sufi saint "Hazrat Syed Ali Shah Termezi Gaus-e-Bunair Pir-e-Khurasan alias Hazarat Pir Baba R.A.
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He was born in 1431 AD and died in 1502 AD/CE.
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Sayyid Ali Tirmizi ( ), more commonly known as Pir Baba ( پير بابا ), was a Sufi who settled in Buner (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan ) among the Yusufzai Pashtuns .He was probably born in 908 AH (1502 CE), in Fergana (present-day Uzbekistan ), of Sayyid descent, died in AH 991 (1583 CE).He was a supporter of the Mughal emperor Babar , and was an opponent of Bayazid Pir Roshan .It is claimed that Pir Baba was the son of Sayyid Qanbar Ali, who was in emperor Babur's army and had come down to Delhi as the governor of the Indian state.His mother was of Uzbek origin.Baba was more inclined towards Islamic studies.Baba supposedly married a sister of Daulat Khan a Yusufzai ; a respected Pashtun from Buner .
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Muslim Saint Sufi Sayyid Ali Tirmizi ( Pashto : سيد علي ترمذي ), more commonly known as Pir Baba ( پير بابا ), was a Sufi pir who settled in Buner in present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan .There, he lived among the Yusufzai Pashtuns .He was a Naqvi Syed, probably born in 908 AH (1502 CE), in Fergana (present-day Uzbekistan ), of Sayyid descent, He died in AH 991 (1583 CE).He was a supporter of the Mughal emperor Akbar , and was an opponent of Bayazid Pir Roshan .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “mountain village in the buner district of the north-west frontier province of pakistan”. Today it says “sufi pir who settled in buner in present-day khyber pakhtunkhwa”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Muslim Saint Sufi Sayyid Ali Tirmizi ( Pashto : سيد علي ترمذي ), more commonly known as”. It now reads “Muslim Saint Sufi Syed Ali Tirmizi ( Pashto : سيد علي ترمذي ), more commonly known as”. Read the current article and compare.
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mountain village in the buner district of the north-west frontier province of pakistan
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sufi pir who settled in buner in present-day khyber pakhtunkhwa
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