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What is disputed about this? It seem spretty factual and straightforward to me. -- Zoe
- The earlier versions were definitely written from a zealot POV. Now, only thing that might still be NPOV about this article is the use of Pir in the title of his name, it is an honorific title, something like Sir or Lord not part of his name. It is used by his followers who beleive he has some special status and should always be so honored. I tried to take out any NNPOV stuff because what was there was written like promo material. Should the page be moved to Vilayat Inayat Khan?
- Here is a definition of pir:
- http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/ddsa/getobject_?HTML.p.4:9./projects/artfl0/databases/dicos/philologic/platts/IMAGE/
- pir -- P pir (S. pitq?; Old P. piyar), s.m. An old man; a saint; a spiritual guide or father; a priest; founder or head of a religious order; -- Monday: -- pir-bha'i, s.m. Follower of the same spiritual teacher or guide, fellow-sectarian: -- pir-bhucri (see bucar), s.m. A priest of the hijaras; -- pir-bhuc-ri-ki karha'i, s.f. An offering made to the priest of the hijaras on the admission of a novice:-<-> pir-pal, s.m. An assignment of land for the support of a pir, or for keeping in order the tomb of a saint: -- pirpairavi, s.f. Following the guidance (of, -ki): -- pir-zada, s.m. The son, or the disciple, of a pir; a priest attached to a mosque; a mendicant: -- pir-zal, pir-zala, pir-zan, s.f. An old woman: -- pir-mard, s.m. An old man: -- pir-murgan, s.m. Chief priest of the Magi; -- the prior of a Christian monastery; -- a tavern-keeper: -- pir karna, v.t. To make (one) a spiritual teacher or guide; to elect a spiritual teacher, &c.
- From Platt's Dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English (London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884)
- Alex756 00:31 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
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- Looks like it should be moved to Vilayat Inayat Khan, then. -- Zoe
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- Done. Alex756 05:34 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
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- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
- JeLuF May 25, 2002, because : written by an admirer of the Guru, should really be NPOVed
- PierreAbbat June 1, 2002, because : Internationally recognized among leaders? Leaders of what? Of Sufism? Sounds like it came from a brochure advertising him as speaker.
- Alex756 April 26, 2003, I've tried to do some NPOV on these two Inayat Khan articles and wikified them a bit. Do they need to stay here?
above moved from wikipedia:votes for NPOV. It's an old comment, but I couldn't be sure that it had been fixed, since I lack the relevant knowledge. Feel free to remove the header if you think it's a resolved issue. Martin
