Wikipedia's first sentence called it “first of the group of central asian sufi teachers known simply as khwajagan”. Today it says “persian sufi of the middle ages”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Central Asian Sufi teacher (1048/49–1140) Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī , best simply known as”. It now reads “Central Asian Sufi teacher (1048/49–1140) Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hammandinā , best simply known as”.
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Yusuf Hamdani (died 1140 ) is the first of the group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as Khwajagan (the Masters) of the Naqshbandi order. According to Ibn Khallikan, he began his religious career with the cultivation of the religious sciences, becoming both a respected scholar of hadith and fiqh and a popular preacher in Baghdad . Later he abandoned these pursuits, adopting an intensely ascetic way of life and travelled east, first settling in Herat and later in Merv , where his tomb is still reputed to exist. He named four khalifas or successors, a pattern that repeated itself for several succeeding generations of the Khwajagan, including Ahmed Yesevi and Khwaja Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani , the next link in the Naqshbandi silsila .1
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Hadrat Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamdani (died 1140) is the first of the group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as Khwajagan (the Masters) of the Naqshbandi order.
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Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamdani (born 1062 /440 H - died March 1141 / Rajab 535 H) is the first of the group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as Khwajagan (the Masters) of the Naqshbandi order.His shrine is at Merv (Turkmenistan).
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Central Asian Sufi teacher (1048/49–1140) Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī , best simply known as Yusuf Hamadani (born 1048 or 1049 / 440 AH - died 1140 / 535 AH), was a Persian Sufi of the Middle Ages. He was the first of the group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as Khwajagan (the Masters) of the Naqshbandi order. His shrine is at Merv , Turkmenistan . A History of Inner Asia .Khwaja Yusuf was a Persian, and, as his nisba suggests, came from Hamadan.
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Central Asian Sufi teacher (1048/49–1140) Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hammandinā , best simply known as Yusuf Hammandina (born 1048 or 1049 / 440 AH - died 1140 / 535 AH), was a Persian Sufi of the Middle Ages. He was the first of the group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as Khwajagan (the Masters) of the Naqshbandi order. His shrine is at Merv , Turkmenistan . A History of Inner Asia . Khwaja Yusuf was a Persian, and, as his nisba suggests, came from Hamadan.
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first of the group of central asian sufi teachers known simply as khwajagan
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persian sufi of the middle ages
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