Wikipedia's first sentence called it “son of rukn al-din khurshah”. Today it says “the 28th imam of the nizari isma'ili community”.
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Shams al-Din Muhammad ( Arabic : شمس الدین محمد , romanized : Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ; before 1256 – c. 1310 ) was the 28th imam of the Nizari Isma'ili community. Little is known about his life. He was the first imam to rule after the destruction of the Nizari state by the Mongol Empire , and spent his life hiding his true identity. Following his death, the line of succession split into two, the Qasim-Shahi line, which survives to this day in the form of mainstream Nizari Isma'ilism, led by the Aga Khans , and the Muhammad-Shahi or Mu'mini line, which has diminished today to a few thousand followers in Syria .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Shams ad-Dīn Muḥammad ( ; 655-710 AH/1257-1310 CE) was the son of Rukn al-Din Khurshah . He was the 28th Nizari Ismaili Shia imam.
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Nizari Ismaili Shia Imam (1257–1310) Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ( ; before 1256 – c. 1310 ) was the 28th imam of the Nizari Isma'ili community.Little is known about his life.He was the first imam to rule after the destruction of the Nizari state by the Mongol Empire , and spent his life hiding his true identity.Following his death, the line of succession split into two, the Qasim-Shahi line, which survives to this day in the Aga Khans , and the Muhammad-Shahi or Mu'mini line, which died out at the turn of the 19th century.
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son of rukn al-din khurshah
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the 28th imam of the nizari isma'ili community
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