Dar al-Islam

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Dar al-Islam is the collective realm of Muslim-majority lands historically unified by Islamic law, culture, and religious authority.


Statements (59)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic legal concept
Islamic political concept
Islamic theological concept
religious concept
alsoKnownAs Dar al Islam
Dar-ul-Islam
Dār al-Islām
appliesTo Abbasid Caliphate
Ottoman Empire
Umayyad Caliphate
historical caliphates
various Muslim sultanates
characterizedBy Islamic culture
Islamic religious institutions
Muslim political authority
application of Sharia
freedom to practice Islam
predominantly Muslim population
contrastedWith Dar al-Ahd
Dar al-Harb
Dar al-Sulh
definedAs collective realm of Muslim-majority lands under Islamic law
lands under Muslim rule and protection
territory where Islamic law prevails
developedBy early Muslim jurists
fieldOfWork Islamic jurisprudence
Islamic political thought
Islamic theology
goalOf Islamic expansion in classical theory
hasAspect legal classification of territory
political sovereignty of Muslims
religious identity of territory
hasConceptualOpposite Dar al-Harb
hasCriterion ability to perform Islamic rituals openly
implementation of at least some aspects of Sharia
security for Muslims
hasDebateAbout application in contemporary Muslim-minority contexts
criteria for classification of states
relevance in modern international law
hasHistoricalPeriodOfUse early Islamic centuries
medieval Islamic period
hasLanguageOfTerm Arabic
hasModernUsage Islamist political thought
discourse on Muslim-majority states
hasSubConcept lands newly conquered by Muslims
lands ruled by Muslim treaties
influencedBy Hadith
Quran
classical jurists
literalMeaning abode of Islam
house of Islam
relatedConcept Caliphate
Islamic state
Sharia
Ummah
religion Islam
usedIn Shia fiqh
Sunni fiqh
classical Islamic jurisprudence

Referenced by (9)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Dar al-Islam ("Dār al-Islām")
Dar al-Islam ("Dar-ul-Islam")
Dar al-Islam ("Dar al Islam")
Islamic world
Mamluk Sultanate ("Dawlat al-Mamalik")
alsoKnownAs
Dar al-Harb
contrastedWith
Islamic world
hasConcept
Ottoman Empire
memberOf
Dinar ("Islamic states")
usedBy

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