Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah: what Wikipedia removed
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili Imam, a ruler whose legacy is disputed among historians. Through 2005 the opening said Ismaili communities in North Africa were massacred by Sunni mobs led by their influential Maliki jurists. Today the word is nowhere in the article, count zero. A reader arriving now learns nothing of this sectarian massacre of Ismailis during his era.
The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. 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 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| disputed | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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 sentence naming the massacre of Ismaili communities in North Africa by Sunni mobs is gone from the article entirely.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16326984):
Hakim bi-Amr Allah (literally: “Ruler by God’s Command”) was the sixth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt , ruling from 996 to 1021 . He was born in Egypt in 985 and successfully succeeded his father Abu Mansur Nizar al-Aziz in 996 at the age of eleven in an initial demonstration of the Fatimid dynasty’s stability. Nevertheless, in his long reign as caliph he struggled with the Qarmatiyya rulers of Bahrain and extended Fatimid rule to the emirate of Aleppo . His diplomatic and missionary vehicle was the Ismaili da’wa with its organizational power center in Cairo. His most rigorous and consistent opponent was the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad , who were concerned to halt the influence of Ismailism , culm…
2025 (revision 1296185393):
6th Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021) and 16th Ismaili Imam For other people with the same name, see Al-Hakim (disambiguation) . Abu Ali al-Mansur ( Arabic : أبو علي المنصور , romanized : Abū ʿAlī al-Manṣūr ; 13 August 985 – 13 February 1021), better known by his regnal name al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ( Arabic : الحاكم بأمر الله , romanized : al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh , lit. ’ The Ruler by the Order of God ’ ), was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam (996–1021). Al-Hakim is an important figure in a number of Shia Ismaili sects, such as the world’s 15 million Nizaris and 1–2 million Musta’lis , in addition to 2 million Druze . Histories of al-Hakim can prove controversial, as diverse views of hi…
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