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Shareef Zandani
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “early day sufi saint”. Today it says “sufi saint in india”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Hazrat khawaja haji”. It now reads “Indian Sufi Saint”.
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Shareef Zandani , ( Urdu حضرت خواجہ حاجی شریف زندنی also known as Nooruddin , was an early Sufi saint, a successor to Maudood Chishti , 13th link in the Sufi silsila of the Chishti Order , and the peer of Usman Harooni .1 He was born around 492 Hijri in a city called Zandanah in Iraq .2 He died around 10 Rajab 612 Hijri .3 He is buried in Kannauj , Uttar Pradesh , India.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “early day sufi saint”. Today it says “sufi saint in india”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Hazrat khawaja haji”. It now reads “Indian Sufi Saint”. Read the current article and compare.
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early day sufi saint
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sufi saint in india
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