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