Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pakistani religious and islamic scholar”. Today it says “pakistani islamic cleric”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Pakistani Islamic scholar (born 1953) Maulana”. It now reads “Pakistani Islamic cleric, preacher (born 1953)”.
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Tariq Jamil ( Punjabi , Urdu : طارق جمیل , romanized : Ṭāriq Jamīl ; Punjabi pronunciation: [t̪aːɾɪk d͡ʒəmil] ; born 1 October 1953) is a Pakistani Islamic cleric , preacher and member of the Tablighi Jama'at . The recipient of the Pride of Performance award, Tariq Jamil has been named in The 500 Most Influential Muslims year since 2012. In the 2024 edition of the publication, he was ranked 34th most influential Muslim alive and topped YouGov polls in 2018 and 2020 for Pakistan’s most admired man. According to his personal website, he was born 1 October 1953, though an article in the Daily Jang says 1 January 1953. "مولانا طارق جمیل اور عامر خان۔۔۔دورِ نو" [Maulana Tariq Jamil and Aamir Khan...New era]. "بڑے ہو کر کیا بنو گے، مولانا طارق جمیل" [Q: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up, A: Maulana Tariq Jamil]. "COVID-19: Famous Pakistani cleric Maulana Tariq Jamil's apology to media set the internet on fire" . The Muslim 500 . 27 May 2018 . "Religious Authority, Popular Preaching and the Dialectic of Structure-Agency in an Islamic Revivalist Movement: The Case of Maulana Tariq Jamil and the Tablighi Jama'at" .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Tariq Jameel (born 1 January 1953), commonly referred to as Maulana Tariq Jameel , is a Pakistani religious and Islamic scholar , preacher, and public speaker from Tulamba near Mian Channu in Khanewal , Punjab . He is a member of Tablighi Jamaat and a Deobandi scholar who runs a Madrasa in Faisalabad , Pakistan. He is listed as a popular speaker in the 2013/2014 edition of the book The Muslim 500 . University of the Punjab. 21 March 2013 .
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Pakistani islamic scholar Tāriq Jamīl ( ; born 1 January 1953) is a Pakistani Islamic television preacher, religious writer, scholar and a member of the Tablighi Jamaat ."بڑے ہو کر کیا بنو گے، مولانا طارق جمیل" [Q: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up, A: Maulana Tariq Jamil].
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Pakistani Islamic scholar (born 1953) Maulana Tariq Jamil PP ( ; born 23 June 1953 ), is a Pakistani Islamic television preacher, religious writer, scholar , and a member of the Tablighi Jamaat .The recipient of the Pride of Performance award, Maulana Tariq Jamil has been named in The 500 Most Influential Muslims every year since 2012.In the 2023 edition of the publication, he was ranked as the 32nd most influential Muslim in the world. "بڑے ہو کر کیا بنو گے، مولانا طارق جمیل" [Q: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up, A: Maulana Tariq Jamil]. "COVID-19: Famous Pakistani cleric Maulana Tariq Jamil's apology to media set internet on fire" .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pakistani religious and islamic scholar”. Today it says “pakistani islamic cleric”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Pakistani Islamic scholar (born 1953) Maulana”. It now reads “Pakistani Islamic cleric, preacher (born 1953)”. Read the current article and compare.
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pakistani religious and islamic scholar
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pakistani islamic cleric
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