{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.islam-in-the-comoros","code":"thing-q3139123","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3139123/","name":"Islam in the Comoros","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Islam in the Comoros is the historically established religious tradition and associated practices, institutions and communities of the Comoros, predominantly Sunni and associated with the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise, assess and responsibly reason about Islamic religious life in the Comoros through its communities, institutions, practices and relationships with public authority.","scope":{"in":["The territorial and historical boundaries of Islamic 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multiple actors and institutions, rather than an organisation with one legal identity or governing body.","A practice or institution belongs here only when evidence connects its Islamic significance to a specified Comorian locality and period.","Statements about the Union of the Comoros cannot automatically be extended to the entire Comoros archipelago or to Mayotte.","Public recognition of a religious authority does not by itself establish that all local Muslim communities accept that authority.","A practice described as Comorian custom is not classified as Islamic without evidence of how relevant participants understand its religious status."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"territory-history-and-evidence","name":"Territory, history and evidence","description":"Establishes which Comorian territories, populations and periods each statement covers.","layers":[{"id":"territorial-referent","name":"Territorial referent","description":"Separates the registry subject's geographical coverage 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and local recognition","description":"Record who recognises each religious authority and what matters that recognition covers.","questions":[{"text":"Which religious offices and local leadership roles are documented, and how are their holders appointed, selected or recognised?","id":"mandate-and-local-recognition-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"For engagement concerning a particular Comorian mosque, village or island, which interlocutors have a relevant mandate and whose perspectives would remain unrepresented?","id":"mandate-and-local-recognition-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"practice-learning-and-local-custom","name":"Practice, learning and local custom","description":"Connects religious observance and teaching with the local social settings in which they acquire meaning.","layers":[{"id":"observance-and-customary-life","name":"Observance and customary life","description":"Examines how participants relate worship and life-cycle events to island and community customs.","findings":[{"id":"religious-meaning-of-local-practices","name":"Religious meaning of local practices","description":"Record participant interpretations of practices, including disagreements over religious and customary obligations.","questions":[{"text":"How do participants in the documented locality distinguish Islamic requirements from custom in marriage celebrations, funerals and communal observances?","id":"religious-meaning-of-local-practices-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Where a source discusses grand mariage, which locality does it concern, and what evidence supports the religious significance it attributes to the practice?","id":"religious-meaning-of-local-practices-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Before arranging a visit or community activity, which expectations about timing, dress, participation and sacred space need confirmation from the relevant hosts?","id":"religious-meaning-of-local-practices-q03","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"religious-education-and-transmission","name":"Religious education and transmission","description":"Documents how Islamic knowledge is taught and transmitted in the covered Comorian communities.","findings":[{"id":"teaching-settings-languages-and-pathways","name":"Teaching settings, languages and pathways","description":"Record evidenced teaching arrangements, their languages and their relationships with other education pathways.","questions":[{"text":"Which household, mosque, Quranic-school or other teaching settings are documented in each locality, and who oversees instruction?","id":"teaching-settings-languages-and-pathways-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What roles do local Comorian languages, Arabic and French have in the documented teaching settings, and how does religious study relate to other schooling?","id":"teaching-settings-languages-and-pathways-q02","kind":"definition"}]}]}]},{"id":"public-institutions-and-external-connections","name":"Public institutions and external connections","description":"Situates religious life within territorial governance and documented relationships beyond the islands.","layers":[{"id":"religion-and-public-authority","name":"Religion and public authority","description":"Separates formal provisions concerning Islam from implementation and community experience.","findings":[{"id":"legal-status-and-institutional-practice","name":"Legal status and institutional practice","description":"Record dated provisions and observed institutional arrangements without extending them across jurisdictions.","questions":[{"text":"What applicable constitutional, statutory or administrative texts define Islam's public position in each jurisdiction included in the model?","id":"legal-status-and-institutional-practice-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Where religious authorities participate in marriage, family matters, education or public observance, what distinguishes their formal competence from their observed role?","id":"legal-status-and-institutional-practice-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What current jurisdiction-specific evidence is needed before advising an institution on religious events, teaching or community engagement?","id":"legal-status-and-institutional-practice-q03","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"inter-island-and-transnational-relationships","name":"Inter-island and transnational relationships","description":"Tracks documented movements of people, learning and resources that connect Comorian religious institutions with other settings.","findings":[{"id":"documented-religious-connections","name":"Documented religious connections","description":"Represent specific relationships without inferring doctrinal influence from contact, travel or funding alone.","questions":[{"text":"Which inter-island, pilgrimage, overseas-study, diaspora or institutional relationships are documented, and which Comorian actors participate?","id":"documented-religious-connections-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What evidence, if any, connects a particular external relationship to changes in local teaching, practice or authority, beyond merely establishing that contact occurred?","id":"documented-religious-connections-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of 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