Islamic East

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The Islamic East refers broadly to the eastern regions of the Muslim world—such as Persia, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and sometimes the eastern Arab lands—distinguished by their own historical, cultural, and intellectual developments within Islamic civilization.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Islamic Central Asia 2
Islamic East canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (90)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural-historical region ⓘ
region of the Muslim world ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Mashriq in some contexts ⓘ
contrastedWith Islamic West ⓘ
Maghrib ⓘ
hasArchitecturalStyle Indo-Islamic architecture ⓘ
Mughal architecture ⓘ
Persian Islamic architecture ⓘ
Timurid architecture ⓘ
hasArtisticTradition Islamic calligraphy ⓘ
linked to: Islamic art

Mughal painting ⓘ
linked to: Mughal paintings

Persian miniature painting ⓘ
Timurid art ⓘ
hasConceptualBoundary defined relative to Islamic West ⓘ
not strictly fixed geographically ⓘ
hasCulturalTradition Arabic culture ⓘ
Indo-Muslim culture ⓘ
Persianate culture ⓘ
linked to: Persianate world

Turkic culture ⓘ
hasDynasty Abbasid Caliphate in its eastern domains ⓘ
Buyid dynasty ⓘ
Delhi Sultanate ⓘ
Ghaznavid dynasty ⓘ
linked to: Ghaznavid Empire

Ghurid dynasty ⓘ
linked to: Ghurid Empire

Mughal Empire ⓘ
Safavid dynasty ⓘ
linked to: Safavid Empire

Saffarid dynasty ⓘ
Samanid dynasty ⓘ
linked to: Samanid Empire

Seljuk dynasty ⓘ
linked to: Seljuk

Timurid dynasty ⓘ
hasHistoricalPeriod classical Islamic era ⓘ
early modern Islamic era ⓘ
medieval Islamic era ⓘ
post-classical Islamic era ⓘ
hasIntellectualCenter Baghdad in some periods ⓘ
Bukhara ⓘ
linked to: Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Delhi ⓘ
Herat ⓘ
Isfahan ⓘ
Lucknow ⓘ
Multan ⓘ
Nishapur ⓘ
Samarkand ⓘ
hasIntellectualTradition Islamic law ⓘ
linked to: Sharia

Islamic mysticism ⓘ
linked to: Sufism

Islamic philosophy ⓘ
Islamic science ⓘ
Islamic theology ⓘ
Sufism ⓘ
hasLanguageOfCulture Arabic ⓘ
Chagatai in historical periods ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
Sanskrit in early contact zones ⓘ
Turkic languages ⓘ
Urdu ⓘ
linked to: Urdu language
hasLiteraryTradition Arabic prose ⓘ
Persian poetry ⓘ
Urdu poetry ⓘ
courtly Persian literature ⓘ
hasReligiousSchool Ash'ari theology ⓘ
linked to: Ash'ari

Hanafi school of law ⓘ
linked to: Hanafi school

Isma'ili Shi'ism ⓘ
linked to: Ismaili Shia

Ja'fari school of law ⓘ
linked to: Ja'fari school

Maturidi theology ⓘ
linked to: Maturidi

Shafi'i school of law ⓘ
linked to: Shafi'i school

Twelver Shi'ism ⓘ
linked to: Twelver Shia

various Sufi orders ⓘ
hasSubregion Afghanistan ⓘ
Bengal in some periods ⓘ
Central Asia ⓘ
Indian subcontinent ⓘ
linked to: South Asia

Iran ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
Khurasan ⓘ
linked to: Khorasan

Pakistan ⓘ
Persia ⓘ
Syria in some historical usages ⓘ
Transoxiana ⓘ
eastern Arab lands ⓘ
northern India ⓘ
hasSufiOrder Chishti order ⓘ
linked to: Chishti Order

Naqshbandi order ⓘ
linked to: Naqshbandi

Qadiri order ⓘ
linked to: Qadiriyya

Suhrawardi order ⓘ
majorReligion Islam ⓘ
partOf Dar al-Islam ⓘ
Islamic world ⓘ
usedIn Islamic historiography ⓘ
Islamic studies scholarship ⓘ
comparative civilizational studies ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Islamic West → contrastedWith → Islamic East ⓘ
Kitab al-Huruf → region → Islamic East ⓘ
Yaghma → culturalSphere → Islamic Central Asia ⓘ
linked to: Islamic East
Khan of the Uzbeks → hasCulturalContext → Islamic Central Asia ⓘ
linked to: Islamic East