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Tradition Institution Islam

Islam

الإسلام ar اسلام fa

Monotheistic Abrahamic religion founded by Muhammad

  • Dated from 631 CE
  • Also called Muslim religion, al-’islām, religion of the Muslims

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Branches · 10

Many paths. Shared histories.

10 branches recorded under Islam, one step down, as the records give them.

What this means

Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.

Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Traditions whose own records say they belong to it

49 traditions name Islam as their own — an affiliation, so kept apart from the tree.

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Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Attributed founding

Whom the records name as founder

What this means

An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Figures · 460

Begin with a figure

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 460 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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220 more are recorded. The full index filters by name and by collection.

Texts · 3

Texts and teachings

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 3 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

Where a date is shown it is when the text was written — the source’s clock, never the time of what it tells.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Places · 532

Places and sites

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 532 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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292 more are recorded. The full index filters by name and by collection.

The Islam collection on the atlas

Festivals and practices · 17

Festivals, holy days and practices

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 17 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

A holy day’s day is the one its record states it is observed on. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock, and one named here is not evidence of when or where it was kept.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

The Islam collection holds 29 festivals and practices in all; 12 of them do not name Islam on their own records. See them in the collection

Institutions · 23

Institutions, offices and houses

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 23 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

A ruling house that names a tradition is a family’s recorded affiliation, not its subjects’ practice; an office is a line of holders, not a family.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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History

Recorded events

What Islam’s own record names in its history. None of the statements carries a date.

What this means

Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.

Connections

How Islam connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 2

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply that the culture was religiously uniform

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Succession in office 2

What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Identification 2

What this means

One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.

Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Documented influence 6

What this means

A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.

Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Attribute 1

What this means

A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.

Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Place 2

What this means

Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.

Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

22 statements on this record

  • 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 21 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Moonik · CC BY-SA 3.0

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