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Shu'ubiyya
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “muslim community and the arabization campaigns particularly by the ummayads”. Today it says “social”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Movement within the Muslim community”. It now reads “Early Muslim movement”.
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Shu'ubiyya ( Arabic : الشعوبية ) was a social, cultural, literary, and political movement within the Muslim world that sought to oppose the privileged status of Arabs and the Arabization of non-Arab civilizations amidst the early Muslim conquests , particularly under the Umayyad Caliphate . The vast majority of the Shu'ubis were Persian . It was first seriously studied by Hungarian scholar Ignaz Goldziher in the first volume of his work Muslim Studies .
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “muslim community and the arabization campaigns particularly by the ummayads”. Today it says “social”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Movement within the Muslim community”. It now reads “Early Muslim movement”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
muslim community and the arabization campaigns particularly by the ummayads
Now
social
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