# Islam

- Id: `islam`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/islam/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `reviewed`
- Content checksum: `b994aa7ba5d4ef616346f551a7c40a13e963acdcba9fb4f7592d75736e949478`

## Summary

A religious tradition centred on the Qur’an, Muhammad’s prophecy, and a life oriented toward divine unity.

## Overview

Islam emerges in seventh-century Arabia around the Qur’anic proclamation transmitted by Muhammad. The Qur’an presents itself as recitation, warning, remembrance, and guidance. Reading it requires attention to language, the chronology of revelation, and interpretive traditions.

Islamic thought is not one undifferentiated corpus. Law, theology, philosophy, mysticism, and commentary developed distinct methods and lasting debates. The library shows what it actually contains and does not claim to represent that diversity beyond its sources.

## Statistics

```json
{
    "thinkers": 1,
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 6236,
    "concepts": 105
}
```

## Thinkers

```json
[
    {
        "id": "muhammad",
        "name": "Muhammad",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/muhammad/"
    }
]
```

## Works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "muhammad.quran",
        "title": "The Qur’an",
        "author": "Muhammad",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/muhammad/quran/"
    }
]
```