Futuh: what Wikipedia removed
Futūh names the early Arab-Muslim conquests that spread Islam and Islamic civilization across Egypt, Syria and Mesopotamia. Through 2005 the opening called them ‘the early Arab-Muslim jihad conquests which facilitated the spread of Islam and Islamic civilization.’ Today the opening drops jihad entirely and calls them simply ‘the early Arab-Muslim conquests,’ though the word survives once in the body. A reader today learns that Arab armies conquered these lands and not that classical Islamic literature named the conquests jihad.
The word “jihad” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jihad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 earlier definitional sentence giving the word’s literal meaning is gone, replaced by a rewritten version with the same translation.
- The word jihad describing the early Arab-Muslim conquests is gone from the opening, replaced with the plain word conquests.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 17685586):
Futūh (singular fath ) is an Arabic word with the literal meaning of “openings”. When appearing in classical Islamic literature it signifies the early Arab-Muslim jihad conquests which facilitated the spread of Islam and Islamic civilization.
2025 (revision 1286615567):
Early Arab conquests of Egypt, Syria etc For Baitul Futuh Mosque in London, United Kingdom, see Baitul Futuh . In classical Islamic literature the futūḥ were the early Arab-Muslim conquests of Egypt , Syria , Mesopotamia , etc. which facilitated the spread of Islam and Islamic civilization. Futūḥ (Arabic script فتوح, singular fatḥ فتح) is an Arabic word with the literal meaning of “openings”, as in “liberation”.
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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