Ahmed Raissouni: what Wikipedia removed
Ahmed Raissouni is a Moroccan jurist and former head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Morocco’s Justice and Development Party. In 2020 the opening called him a ‘Moroccan Islamist jurist’ and identified the JDP as ‘the Moroccan Islamist party.’ Today the opening calls him a ‘Moroccan Islamic scholar and jurist,’ with Islamist gone from the opening entirely. A reader today learns he is an Islamic scholar, not that Wikipedia once classified him and the party he served as Islamist.
The word “islamist” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| islamist | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The line calling him a Moroccan Islamist jurist is gone from the opening, replaced with Moroccan Islamic scholar and jurist.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2020 (revision 949678404):
Dr. Ahmad al-Raysuni (born 1953) is a Moroccan Islamist jurist . He is a former head of Movement of Unity and Reform (MUR), the social movement branch of the Moroccan Islamist party, Justice and Development Party (JDP) . His intellectual linage can be traced to the reformist Salafist movement in Morocco, instituted by Allal al-Fassi . His other influences including contemporary Maliki scholars Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur and Abdallah Bin Bayyah . Currently, he is teaching in Qatar , Morocco and various other countries. ^ Ovamir Anjum, Salafis and Democracy: Doctrine and Context . Hartford Seminary, 2016. Retrieved 9-9-2017. ^ Cite error: The named reference TH was invoked but never defined (…
2025 (revision 1292475877):
Moroccan Islamic scholar (born 1953) Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Raïssouni ( Arabic : أحمد الريسوني , born 1953) is a Moroccan Islamic scholar and jurist . He served as president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) until his retirement in 2022. He was the former head of the Movement of Unity and Reform [ fr ] (MUR), an organization closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Moroccan Justice and Development Party . Raïssouni is one of main figures in the Moroccan Sufi Islamic reform and revivalist movement started by Allal al-Fassi . Raïssouni retired from the IUMS in 2022 after stating that Mauritania’s existence was “a mistake”. ^ “Ahmed Raissouni se retire définitivement de l’U…
Related
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