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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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region → religious civilization → transnational community →
alsoKnownAs	Dar al-Islam → 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 → 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 → Medina of Tunis → Mogadishu → Muscat → Najaf → Qom → Rabat → Riyadh → Sana'a → Sarajevo → Tashkent → Tehran → Tunis → Yogyakarta → Zanzibar City →
hasCulturalContribution	Arabic literature → Hadith studies → Islamic architecture → Islamic art → Islamic astronomy → 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	Albanian Muslims → Arabs → Azerbaijanis → Baloch → Bedouins → Bengalis → Berbers → Bosniaks → Chadians → Chechens → Chinese Muslims → Crimean Tatars → European Muslims → Fulani → Gambian Muslims → Hadhrami → Hausa → Javanese → Kashmiris → Kazakhs → Kurds → Latin American Muslims → Malays → North American Muslims → Nubians → Oromo Muslims → Pashtuns → Persians → Punjabis → Rohingya → Russian Muslims → Sindhis → Somalis → Sundanese → Tajiks → Tamils Muslims → Tatars → Thais Muslims → Tigrinya Muslims → Turkmens → Turks → Uighurs → Uyghurs → Uzbeks → Yoruba Muslims →
hasHistoricEmpire	Abbasid Caliphate → Almohad Caliphate → Almoravid dynasty → Ayyubid dynasty → Delhi Sultanate → Fatimid Caliphate → Ghaznavid Empire → Granada Emirate → Mamluk Sultanate → Mughal Empire → Ottoman Empire → Rashidun Caliphate → Safavid Empire → Samanid Empire → Timurid Empire → Umayyad Caliphate → 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	Islamic university → madrasa → mosque →
hasLanguage	Arabic → Azerbaijani → Bengali → Berber languages → English → French → Hausa → Indonesian → Kurdish → Malay → Pashto → Persian → Russian → Somali → Swahili → Tajik → Turkish → Urdu → Uyghur →
hasLawTradition	Sharia →
hasLegalSchool	Hanafi → Hanbali → Ja'fari → Maliki → Shafi'i → Zaydi →
hasOrganization	Islamic Development Bank → Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization → 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 → 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 (28)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bengal Sultanate → Johor Sultanate → Khorasan → Ottoman Empire →	partOf
Amir → Damascene steel → Dinar → Dirham →	usedIn
Ancient Mediterranean world ("Islamic civilization") → Iranian peoples ("Islamic civilization") →	influenced
Islamic world ("Muslim world") →	alsoKnownAs
Jordanian American ("Islamic culture") →	associatedWith
Arabic calligraphy ("Islamic civilization") →	associatedWithCulture
Byzantine Empire →	culturalInfluence
Al-Farabi →	culturalSphere
Islamic philosophy →	developedIn
Islamic mathematics →	developedInRegion
Outremer →	hasCulturalInfluenceFrom
Islamic music →	hasCulturalSphere
Naqshbandi ("the Muslim world") →	influentialIn
Middle East →	isOftenAssociatedWith
Islamic Golden Age →	mainRegion
creation–evolution controversy →	occursIn
Greater Middle East →	overlapsWith
Al-Kindi →	region
Sunan Abu Dawud ("Muslim world") →	regionOfInfluence
Islamic art ("Islamic culture") →	relatedConcept
Tashkent →	religiousHeritage