history of Islam
Let an agent explain the history of Islam and its major periods, relay scholarship with attribution and awareness of confessional and academic perspectives, describe regional histories, and distinguish religious history from the histories of peoples and states.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the history of Islam and its major periods, relay scholarship with attribution and awareness of confessional and academic perspectives, describe regional histories, and distinguish religious history from the histories of peoples and states.
The history of the Islamic religion and its communities from the revelation to Muhammad in seventh-century Arabia through the early caliphates, the spread of Islam across the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe, the Shia century of the tenth and eleventh centuries, the medieval empires and scholarship, Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal periods, colonialism and modern movements, including regional histories such as Islam in Germany and in the Soviet Union; the history of Islam is studied in Islamic studies and the history of religions with a range of scholarly and confessional perspectives.
What it is for: Not applicable; a field of history.
It can be explain periods; relay scholarship with attribution; describe regional histories; distinguish from national histories.
Distinguishing features
Religious history
Global spread
Multiple perspectives
Regional variation
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a historical narrative.
Physical character
hijra: 622 year - start of the Islamic calendar
Muslims today: about 2 billion - estimates
How it is recognised
History of the Islamic religion and community
Early Islam, caliphates, Shia century, spread of Islam, Islam in Germany and the Soviet Union
Histories of Muslim-majority states and peoples such as the Albanians are related but distinct
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
begins with - in seventh-century Arabia
is studied through - with debated sources
In practice
Families and kinds
early Islam and the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates
the Shia century and sectarian developments
spread of Islam by conquest, trade and mission
medieval and early modern empires
Islam under colonialism and in modern nation states
regional histories such as Islam in Germany, the Soviet Union and other countries
histories of Islamic thought, law and science
Standards and regulation
No regulation; academic standards of historical scholarship
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting contested historiography as settled
Disrespectful presentation of the religion or its communities
Conflating religious history with national histories, as with the Albanian alias
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What the history covers.
Attribution.
Overview
Periods.
Overview
Overview.
- What are the major periods of Islamic history, from the early community to the modern era, as historians describe? definition
- Is the question about religious history, a specific period or region, or the history of a people or state? boundary
Sources
Sources and historiography.
Sources
Sources.
- How do traditional Islamic sources and modern critical scholarship approach early Islamic history, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Periods Key periods.
Attribution.
Early
Early Islam and caliphates.
Early
Early.
- How did the early community, the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates and the Shia century develop? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Spread
Spread of Islam.
Spread
Spread.
- How did Islam spread through conquest, trade, migration and mission across Africa, Asia and Europe? provenance
- Which entry fits the spread of Islam? action
Regions Regional histories.
Sources.
Europe
Islam in Europe.
Europe
Europe.
- What is the history of Islam in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, including the Balkans? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Soviet
Islam in the Soviet Union.
Soviet
Soviet.
- How did Soviet policy shape Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus, as historians describe? provenance
- Which entry fits Islam in the Soviet Union? action
Context Thought and modernity.
Context.
Thought
Intellectual history.
Thought
Thought.
- How did Islamic law, theology, philosophy and science develop? provenance
- Which entry fits Islamic Golden Age? action
Modern
Modern history.
Modern
Modern.
- How did colonialism, reform movements and nation states shape modern Islamic history, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits Islamic modernism? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should the spread of Islam and the Shia century be separate primary entries?
- How should academic and confessional sources be linked with attribution?
- The registry entry has merged aliases including the history of the Albanians; should they be split off?