Islamic world

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cultural region religious civilization transnational community

The Islamic world refers to the global community of Muslim-majority societies and cultures shaped historically and religiously by Islam, spanning regions from North Africa and the Middle East to parts of Asia and beyond.

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All labels observed (12)

Label	Occurrences
Islamic world canonical	88
Islamic civilization	13
Islamic culture	6
Muslim world	5
Buyid-era Islamic world	1
Islam and Muslim societies	1
Islamic cultures	1
Islamic states	1
IslamicWorld	1
IslamicateWorld	1
Middle Eastern Islamic tradition	1
the Muslim world	1

Statements (221)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region ⓘ religious civilization ⓘ transnational community ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Dar al-Islam ⓘ Islamic world ⓘ surface form: Muslim world
coreText	Quran ⓘ
followsProphet	Muhammad ⓘ
hasCalendar	Islamic lunar calendar ⓘ
hasConcept	Dar al-Harb ⓘ Dar al-Islam ⓘ ummah ⓘ
hasConflict	Afghan conflicts ⓘ Arab–Israeli conflict ⓘ Iran–Iraq War ⓘ Syrian Civil War ⓘ surface form: Syrian civil war Yemen conflict (Saudi-led coalition) ⓘ surface form: Yemeni civil war
hasCulturalCenter	Abu Dhabi ⓘ Abuja ⓘ Aleppo ⓘ Algiers ⓘ Amman ⓘ Baghdad ⓘ Baku ⓘ Bandung ⓘ Cairo ⓘ Casablanca ⓘ Dakar ⓘ Damascus ⓘ Dhaka ⓘ Doha ⓘ Fez ⓘ Isfahan ⓘ Istanbul ⓘ Jakarta ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ Kano ⓘ Karachi ⓘ Karbala ⓘ Khartoum ⓘ Kuala Lumpur ⓘ Kuwait City ⓘ Lahore ⓘ Manama ⓘ Mashhad ⓘ Mecca ⓘ Medina ⓘ Tunis ⓘ surface form: Medina of Tunis Mogadishu ⓘ Muscat ⓘ Najaf ⓘ Qom ⓘ Rabat ⓘ Riyadh ⓘ Sanaʽa ⓘ surface form: Sana'a Sarajevo ⓘ Tashkent ⓘ Tehran ⓘ Tunis ⓘ Yogyakarta ⓘ Zanzibar ⓘ surface form: Zanzibar City
hasCulturalContribution	Arabic literature ⓘ Hadith studies ⓘ Islamic architecture ⓘ Islamic art ⓘ Islamic astronomy ⓘ Arabic calligraphy ⓘ surface form: Islamic calligraphy Islamic cuisine ⓘ Islamic finance ⓘ Islamic geometric patterns ⓘ Islamic jurisprudence ⓘ Islamic mathematics ⓘ Islamic medicine ⓘ Islamic music traditions ⓘ Islamic philosophy ⓘ Islamic science ⓘ Persian literature ⓘ Quranic exegesis ⓘ Sufism ⓘ
hasDemographics	over one billion Muslims ⓘ
hasEconomicFeature	growing youth population ⓘ major oil and gas reserves ⓘ rapid urbanization ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup	Albanians ⓘ surface form: Albanian Muslims Arabs ⓘ Azerbaijanis ⓘ Baloch people ⓘ surface form: Baloch Ishmaelites ⓘ surface form: Bedouins Bengali ⓘ surface form: Bengalis Berbers ⓘ Bosniaks ⓘ Chadians ⓘ Chechens ⓘ Muslims ⓘ surface form: Chinese Muslims Crimean Tatars ⓘ Muslims ⓘ surface form: European Muslims Fulani ⓘ Gambian Muslims ⓘ Arabs ⓘ surface form: Hadhrami Hausa people ⓘ surface form: Hausa Javanese ⓘ Kashmiris ⓘ Kazakhs ⓘ Kurds ⓘ Muslims ⓘ surface form: Latin American Muslims Malay peoples ⓘ surface form: Malays Muslims ⓘ surface form: North American Muslims Nubians ⓘ Oromo ⓘ surface form: Oromo Muslims Pashtuns ⓘ Persians ⓘ Punjabi people ⓘ surface form: Punjabis Rohingya ⓘ Russian Muslims ⓘ Sindhi people ⓘ surface form: Sindhis Afar ⓘ surface form: Somalis Sundanese ⓘ Tajiks ⓘ Tamils Muslims ⓘ Tatars ⓘ Thais Muslims ⓘ Tigrinya Muslims ⓘ Turkmens ⓘ Turks ⓘ Uyghurs ⓘ surface form: Uighurs Uyghurs ⓘ Uzbeks ⓘ Yoruba people ⓘ surface form: Yoruba Muslims
hasHistoricEmpire	Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ Almohad dynasty ⓘ surface form: Almohad Caliphate Almoravid dynasty ⓘ Ayyubid dynasty ⓘ Delhi Sultanate ⓘ Fatimid Caliphate ⓘ Ghaznavid Empire ⓘ Kingdom of Granada ⓘ surface form: Granada Emirate Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ Mughal Empire (in much of the territory) ⓘ surface form: Mughal Empire Ottoman Empire ⓘ Rashidun Caliphate ⓘ Safavid Empire ⓘ Samanid Empire ⓘ Timurid dynasty ⓘ surface form: Timurid Empire Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ Caliphate of Córdoba ⓘ surface form: Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba
hasHistoricInstitution	Al-Azhar University ⓘ Al-Qarawiyyin University ⓘ House of Wisdom ⓘ
hasHistoricPeriod	Islamic Golden Age ⓘ early Islamic expansion ⓘ postcolonial era ⓘ
hasHoliday	Eid al-Adha ⓘ Eid al-Fitr ⓘ Mawlid ⓘ
hasInstitution	International Islamic University Islamabad ⓘ surface form: Islamic university madrasa ⓘ mosque ⓘ
hasLanguage	Arabic ⓘ Azerbaijani ⓘ Bengali ⓘ Berber languages ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Hausa ⓘ Indonesian ⓘ Kurdish ⓘ Malay ⓘ Pashto language ⓘ surface form: Pashto Persian ⓘ Russian ⓘ Somali ⓘ Swahili language ⓘ surface form: Swahili Tajiks ⓘ surface form: Tajik Turkish ⓘ Urdu language ⓘ surface form: Urdu Uyghur language (historically) ⓘ surface form: Uyghur
hasLawTradition	Sharia ⓘ
hasLegalSchool	Hanafi school ⓘ surface form: Hanafi Hanbali school ⓘ surface form: Hanbali Ja'fari school ⓘ surface form: Ja'fari Maliki ⓘ Shafi'i school ⓘ surface form: Shafi'i Zaydi Shia ⓘ surface form: Zaydi
hasOrganization	Islamic Development Bank ⓘ Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ⓘ Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ⓘ surface form: Organization of Islamic Cooperation
hasPilgrimageSite	Al-Aqsa Mosque ⓘ Al-Masjid an-Nabawi ⓘ Imam Ali Shrine ⓘ Imam Husayn Shrine ⓘ Kaaba ⓘ
hasPoliticalSystem	Islamic republic ⓘ military regime ⓘ monarchy ⓘ parliamentary democracy ⓘ
hasRegion	Anatolia ⓘ Balkans ⓘ Caucasus ⓘ Central Asia ⓘ Horn of Africa ⓘ North Africa ⓘ surface form: Maghreb Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Persian Gulf ⓘ Sahel ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ parts of East Asia ⓘ parts of Latin America ⓘ parts of North America ⓘ parts of Western Europe ⓘ
hasReligiousPractice	fasting in Ramadan ⓘ five daily prayers ⓘ hajj ⓘ shahada ⓘ zakat ⓘ
hasSect	Ibadi Islam ⓘ Shia Islam ⓘ Sunni Islam ⓘ
majorityReligion	Islam ⓘ
religion	Islam ⓘ

Referenced by (120)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Middle East → isOftenAssociatedWith → Islamic world ⓘ

Ottoman Empire → partOf → Islamic world ⓘ

Byzantine Empire → culturalInfluence → Islamic world ⓘ

Islamic world → alsoKnownAs → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Muslim world

Arabic calligraphy → associatedWithCulture → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic civilization

Islamic Golden Age → mainRegion → Islamic world ⓘ

Johor Sultanate → partOf → Islamic world ⓘ

Islamic philosophy → developedIn → Islamic world ⓘ

Islamic music → hasCulturalSphere → Islamic world ⓘ

Islamic art → relatedConcept → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic culture

Bengal Sultanate → partOf → Islamic world ⓘ

creation–evolution controversy → occursIn → Islamic world ⓘ

Ancient Mediterranean world → influenced → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic civilization

Iranian peoples → influenced → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic civilization

Dinar → usedIn → Islamic world ⓘ

Sunan Abu Dawud → regionOfInfluence → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Muslim world

Dirham → usedIn → Islamic world ⓘ

Jordanian American → associatedWith → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic culture

Greater Middle East → overlapsWith → Islamic world ⓘ

Islamic mathematics → developedInRegion → Islamic world ⓘ

Amir → usedIn → Islamic world ⓘ

Khorasan → partOf → Islamic world ⓘ

Damascene steel → usedIn → Islamic world ⓘ

Al-Farabi → culturalSphere → Islamic world ⓘ

Tashkent → religiousHeritage → Islamic world ⓘ

Naqshbandi → influentialIn → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: the Muslim world

Al-Kindi → region → Islamic world ⓘ

Outremer → hasCulturalInfluenceFrom → Islamic world ⓘ

green flag of the Caliphate → hasCulturalSignificanceIn → Islamic world ⓘ

Zengid dynasty → partOf → Islamic world ⓘ

Hammam → hasCulturalContext → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic culture

Jabala → controlledBy → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic states

Al-Masudi → regionOfActivity → Islamic world ⓘ

Almagest → regionOfInfluence → Islamic world ⓘ

Al-Muqaddasi → describedRegion → Islamic world ⓘ

Islamic Studies Library → hasFocus → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic civilization

MushafAl-MadinahOrder → usedBy → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Muslim world

Muhyiddin Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Arabi al-Hatimi al-Ta’i → region → Islamic world ⓘ

Akbariyya → regionOfInfluence → Islamic world ⓘ

Indo-Aryan cultural sphere → influencedBy → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic civilization

HoopoeBirdStory → culturalRegion → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Middle Eastern Islamic tradition

Malay sultanates → influencedBy → Islamic world ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic civilization

rebab → hasOrigin → Islamic world ⓘ

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science → focusesOn → Islamic world ⓘ

ICCIA → regionServed → Islamic world ⓘ

Anatolian beyliks → partOf → Islamic world ⓘ

Sultanate of Pahang → partOf → Islamic world ⓘ

Abd al-Karim al-Jili → region → Islamic world ⓘ

al-Hidaya by al-Marghinani → countryOfOrigin → Islamic world ⓘ

subject surface form: Al-Hidaya

Al-Risala → regionOfOrigin → Islamic world ⓘ