Fatawa-e-Alamgiri
E90132
Fatawa-e-Alamgiri is a comprehensive 17th-century compilation of Hanafi Islamic law that became a key legal reference in the Mughal Empire and later in South Asia.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya | 1 |
| Al-Fatawa al-‘Alamgiriyya | 1 |
| Fatawa-e-Alamgiri canonical | 1 |
| Fatawa-i Alamgiri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T764244 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fatawa-e-Alamgiri Context triple: [Aurangzeb, commissionedWork, Fatawa-e-Alamgiri]
-
A.
Kitāb al-Amānāt wa-l-Iʿtiqādāt
Kitāb al-Amānāt wa-l-Iʿtiqādāt is a foundational 10th-century Jewish philosophical and theological treatise that systematically presents and defends the principles of Jewish belief using rational argumentation.
-
B.
al-Kafi
al-Kafi is one of the most important Shia hadith compilations, widely regarded as a foundational source of theology, law, and ethics in Twelver Shia Islam.
-
C.
Sulh-i Kul
Sulh-i Kul was a Mughal-era doctrine of universal peace and tolerance that promoted religious harmony and equal treatment of all faiths in the empire.
-
D.
Baburnama
Baburnama is the autobiographical memoir of the Mughal emperor Babur, renowned as one of the earliest and most vivid works of prose in Chagatai Turkish and a key historical source on Central and South Asia in the early 16th century.
-
E.
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri is the autobiographical memoirs of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, detailing his reign, policies, and personal reflections.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fatawa-e-Alamgiri Target entity description: Fatawa-e-Alamgiri is a comprehensive 17th-century compilation of Hanafi Islamic law that became a key legal reference in the Mughal Empire and later in South Asia.
-
A.
Kitāb al-Amānāt wa-l-Iʿtiqādāt
Kitāb al-Amānāt wa-l-Iʿtiqādāt is a foundational 10th-century Jewish philosophical and theological treatise that systematically presents and defends the principles of Jewish belief using rational argumentation.
-
B.
al-Kafi
al-Kafi is one of the most important Shia hadith compilations, widely regarded as a foundational source of theology, law, and ethics in Twelver Shia Islam.
-
C.
Sulh-i Kul
Sulh-i Kul was a Mughal-era doctrine of universal peace and tolerance that promoted religious harmony and equal treatment of all faiths in the empire.
-
D.
Baburnama
Baburnama is the autobiographical memoir of the Mughal emperor Babur, renowned as one of the earliest and most vivid works of prose in Chagatai Turkish and a key historical source on Central and South Asia in the early 16th century.
-
E.
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri is the autobiographical memoirs of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, detailing his reign, policies, and personal reflections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hanafi law manual
ⓘ
Islamic legal text ⓘ Mughal-era legal code ⓘ fiqh compendium ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Fatawa-e-Alamgiri
ⓘ
surface form:
Al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya
Fatawa-e-Alamgiri ⓘ
surface form:
Al-Fatawa al-‘Alamgiriyya
|
| authorityIn |
Mughal judicial system
ⓘ
pre-modern South Asian Islamic courts ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Aurangzeb ⓘ |
| compiledFor | standardizing Hanafi legal practice in the Mughal Empire ⓘ |
| compiler | a committee of Hanafi scholars ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal Empire
|
| coversTopic |
contracts in Islamic law
ⓘ
criminal penalties (hudud and ta‘zir) ⓘ divorce in Islamic law ⓘ fasting ⓘ inheritance in Islamic law ⓘ judicial procedure ⓘ marriage in Islamic law ⓘ pilgrimage (hajj) ⓘ prayer ⓘ ritual purity ⓘ zakat ⓘ |
| genre | fatwa collection ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later Hanafi legal manuals in the Indian subcontinent ⓘ |
| hasPart | multiple volumes ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
influential source for later South Asian Islamic law
ⓘ
standard reference for Hanafi courts in the Mughal Empire ⓘ |
| influenced |
Anglo-Muhammadan law formulations
ⓘ
Islamic legal practice in South Asia ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| legalSchool |
Hanafi school
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanafi school of law
|
| legalSystem | Islamic law ⓘ |
| madhhab |
Hanafi school
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanafi
|
| mainSubject |
Hanafi jurisprudence
ⓘ
Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) ⓘ commercial law in Islam ⓘ criminal law in Islam ⓘ personal status law ⓘ ritual law in Islam ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Aurangzeb
ⓘ
surface form:
Aurangzeb Alamgir
|
| placeOfCompilation |
South Asia
ⓘ
surface form:
Indian subcontinent
|
| religiousTradition | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| startTime | 17th century ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
ⓘ
surface form:
Mughal period
|
| use |
fatwa issuance
ⓘ
judicial reference ⓘ legal codification ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Fatawa-e-Alamgiri Description of subject: Fatawa-e-Alamgiri is a comprehensive 17th-century compilation of Hanafi Islamic law that became a key legal reference in the Mughal Empire and later in South Asia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Al-Fatawa al-‘Alamgiriyya
this entity surface form:
Al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya
this entity surface form:
Fatawa-i Alamgiri