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Salah Eddin Zaimeche Al-Djazair
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “academic and author specializing in the history of islam”. Today it says “academic and author specializing in the history of civilization”.
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Salah Eddin Zaimeche Al-Djazairi , commonly referred to as Dr. Al-Djazairi , is an academic and author specializing in the history of civilization, science , and Islam .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “academic and author specializing in the history of islam”. Today it says “academic and author specializing in the history of civilization”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
academic and author specializing in the history of islam
Now
academic and author specializing in the history of civilization
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