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Tradition collection 2,177 records

Islam

Schools of law and theology, the scholars who transmitted them, and the places they taught.

  • Extent Arabia, North Africa, the Near East, South and Southeast Asia and beyond, 7th century CE to the present.
  • Holds 1,315 places · 607 figures · 165 traditions · 1,351 institutions, offices and houses
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Before you count

Isnād — chains of transmission — is the tradition's own model of a lineage and is barely present in structured data.

What else it is missing

Places · 1,315

Holy places and sites

Temples, tombs, holy cities and sites recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. A place is not a count of believers.

All 1,315 places

1,315 places 1,315 with a point on the map 954 with a date 2 archaeological sites

See them on the atlas

The oldest on record

The earliest recorded starts among its best-known places, by 1000 CE, in date order. Each date is the place’s own — a city’s founding, a building’s — not the start of this tradition there.

  1. 9th century BCE Medina
  2. 19 BCE Western Wall
  3. 526 CE Little Hagia Sophia
  4. 532 CE Hagia Sophia
  5. 7th century CE Great Mosque of Gaza
  6. 622 CE Prophet's Mosque
  7. 622 CE Quba Mosque
  8. 627 CE Huaisheng Mosque

Where they gather

Cities and sites with two or more of its places recorded in them — counted from each place’s own location.

Figures · 607

Who to meet first

The figures its own texts, stories and traditions name — the most widely linked first, this collection’s own before those it shares.

All 607 figures

Not its own picture Hagar — Hagar and the Angel, painting

More of its best-linked figures

Traditions · 165

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

All 165 traditions

Institutions, offices and houses · 1,351

Institutions, offices and houses

Recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. An office is a line of holders, not a family. A ruling house’s affiliation is the family’s, not its subjects’ practice.

All 1,304 institutions All 19 offices

Festivals and practices · 29

Festivals, holy days and practices

Holy days with the day their record gives, then rites and practices. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock.

All 29 practices

Holy days and festivals · 9, each with the day its record gives

1 more with a recorded day — the full list.

Rites and practices · 20, with no day on record

14 more — the full list.

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 29.

Texts and stories · 8

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 2 stories All 7 texts

Gods · 3

The gods

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 3 gods

Not its own picture God in Islam — calligraphy

More of its best-linked gods

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 2,177 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
9,841
With references
1,341
Undated
573
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Isnād — chains of transmission — is the tradition's own model of a lineage and is barely present in structured data.
  • Sufi orders are recorded as organisations more often than as transmissions.
  • Figurative representation is an editorial decision per subject here, never a rule applied to the tradition.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 29.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 37 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Islam by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Cities and sites, through the places recorded in them · 11

  • Jerusalem — 14 of the 44 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Varanasi — 2 of the 4 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Mashhad — 3 of the 3 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Rhodes — 2 of the 2 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Konya — 4 of the 4 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Qom — 2 of the 2 places recorded in it here are in this collection

and 5 more

Tombs, through the figures buried in them · 12

and 6 more

Figures and stories, through the text they appear in · 13

  • Eve — it appears in Qur’an
  • Noah — it appears in Qur’an
  • Jacob — it appears in Qur’an
  • Isaac — it appears in Qur’an
  • Elijah — it appears in Qur’an
  • Joseph — it appears in Qur’an

and 7 more

Works, through their main subject · 1

Oren Rozen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Keep going

Walk Islam another way.

A family tree as the records give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Muhammad’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Islam