Wikipedia's first sentence called it “founder of the rahmaniyya sufi order and is one of the seven patron saints of algiers”. Today it says “kabyle berber ash'ari 'alim”.
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Algerian theologian and sufi (died 1790s) Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Gashtuli al-Jurjuri al-Azhari Abu Qabrayn ( Arabic : محمد بن عبد الرحمن القشطولي الجرجري الأزهري بوقبرين ; died in 1793/1794), mostly known as Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine ( Arabic : سيدي محمد بو قبرين ) was a Berber ash'ari 'alim , founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order and is one of the seven Patron Saints of Algiers . The Sidi M'Hamed District in Algiers and the municipality of the same name, Sidi M'Hamed , are both named after him.
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Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine ( ) is the founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order and is one of the seven Patron Saints of Algiers . The Sidi M'Hamed District in Algiers and the municipality of the same name, Sidi M'Hamed , are both named after him. He was born around the year 1720 in the village of At Smaïl, Boghni , Tizi Ouzou .
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Mausoleum of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Gashtuli al-Jurjuri al-Azhari Abu Qabrayn ( ; died in 1793/1794), mostly known as Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine ( ) was a Berber 'alim , founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order and is one of the seven Patron Saints of Algiers . The Sidi M'Hamed District in Algiers and the municipality of the same name, Sidi M'Hamed , are both named after him.
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Mausoleum of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Gashtuli al-Jurjuri al-Azhari Abu Qabrayn ( ; died in 1793/1794), mostly known as Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine ( ) was a Berber ash'ari 'alim , founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order and is one of the seven Patron Saints of Algiers . The Sidi M'Hamed District in Algiers and the municipality of the same name, Sidi M'Hamed , are both named after him.
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founder of the rahmaniyya sufi order and is one of the seven patron saints of algiers
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kabyle berber ash'ari 'alim
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