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Sabine Schmidtke
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “islamic scholar from germany”. Today it says “german academic”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “German Islamic scholar”. It now reads “German scholar of Islamic studies (born 1964)”.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Sabine Schmidtke is a German academic , historian , and scholar of Islamic studies . She is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “islamic scholar from germany”. Today it says “german academic”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “German Islamic scholar”. It now reads “German scholar of Islamic studies (born 1964)”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
islamic scholar from germany
Now
german academic
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