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"vr.tr.islam-in-the-comoros", "name": "Islam in the Comoros", "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.", "definition": "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.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the geographically and historically situated religious field identified by vr.tr.islam-in-the-comoros, including its internal diversity and institutional relationships; it treats that field as neither a single organisation nor a synonym for Comorian society.", "in_scope": [ "The territorial and historical boundaries of Islamic religious life covered by the registry entry", "Muslim communities, religious affiliations and locally recognised 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"facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "This religious tradition has no single visual identity, and clothing or buildings alone cannot establish a person's affiliation or a community's practices." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q3139123: Islam in the Comoros", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3139123", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Islam in the Comoros", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_Comoros", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "territory-history-and-evidence", "name": "Territory, history and evidence", "description": "Establishes which Comorian territories, populations and periods each statement covers.", "rationale": "The geographical meaning of Comoros and the temporal reach of a 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