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A map of the vault’s notes on Islamic origins, scripture, law, schools, political movements, public opinion, and critical debates.
Source note
This collection mixes academic research, polling, primary-text excerpts, journalism, apologetics, and polemical sources. Follow each note’s citations and distinguish a source’s claims from independently established conclusions.
Pinker — Islam and the uneven New Peace
In Chapter 6, Pinker argues that Muslim-majority states and Islamist movements lagged parts of the post-Cold-War decline in conflict and the earlier Humanitarian Revolution. But Figure 6-12 shows a flat count of conflicts coded “Islamic,” not an increase: their share rose because other intrastate conflicts declined. He then complicates any civilizational reading with evidence of support for speech, elections, and women’s rights, and with falling support for jihadist violence. This is a dated 2011 argument with data mostly ending in 2006–2010, not a description of all Muslims or a current country ranking. → full source audit and Figure 6-12
Origins, Texts & Tradition
- History of Islam — beginnings, expansion, conversion, and the Islamic Golden Age
- Quran — revelation, compilation, hadith, tafsir, textual history, and disputed readings
- Muhammad — biography, legacy, and critical source material
- Islamic Sects — Sunni–Shia, Salafism, and Wahhabism
- Sharia — Islamic law across conscience, jihad, gender, non-Muslims, slavery, and punishment
- Myths of Islam — claims and counterclaims collected for review
Belief, Practice & Public Opinion
- How Religious Are Muslims? — cross-national religiosity, doubt, and non-belief
- Polling — attitudes toward terrorism, sharia, honor violence, and assimilation
- Who Speaks For Islam - What a Billion Muslims Really Think — Gallup-based book notes
- Islamophobia — definitions, arguments, and further reading
Politics, Islamism & Society
- Nick Matau - Moderate Islam, Minority Influence and the 10 Percent Claim — notebook transcription, conditional minority influence, demographic-threshold audit, secular-democratic comparisons and reform-Islam books
- Promotion of Islamist thinking worldwide — working notes on transnational Islamist advocacy and influence
- Islamic Supremacy - Texts, Doctrines & Contested Readings — ⚖️ the four-category framework (theological / communal / legal-political / territorial), the primary texts on each side, the dhimma system, and the “once Muslim land” waqf doctrine
- Islamism — political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood
- The 1991 Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum - Provenance, Meaning, and Limits — source audit separating authenticity, adoption, historical network evidence, legal findings, and present-day inference
- Islam in Britain — polling, institutions, crime debates, voting, and reports
- Religious Freedom in Muslim Countries — comparative legal and social restrictions
- Compatible with Democracy? — democracy and Islamic governance
- Islam Curriculum — sequenced study plan from origins to contemporary debates
Conflict, Jihad & Slavery
- Terrorism, Violence & War — overview hub
- Jihad Attacks — country and incident notes
- Ten Reasons Islam Is Not a Religion of Peace — a polemical source summary
- Arab Slave Trade — historical notes
Rights, Law & Social Questions
- Human Rights — apostasy, jizya, slavery, sexuality, punishment, and torture
- Women's Rights — marriage, divorce, dress, domestic authority, and legal worth
- Moral Issues — relations with non-believers, charity, deception, and theft
- Inbreeding in Muslim Countries — consanguinity, health, cognition, and methodological cautions
- Sexual Violence in Muslim Countries — comparative evidence and reporting caveats
Arguments & Comparisons
- Arguments — recurring apologetic and counter-apologetic claims
- Islamic Supremacy - Texts, Doctrines & Contested Readings — 🥊 the “supremacism” charge mapped claim-by-claim with contextual responses, plus the symmetry test against the same charge levelled at Zionism
- Islam and Christianity — side-by-side religious comparison
- The West Is Right to Be Suspicious of Islam - Jonathan Sacerdoti (Oxford Union, 2026) — transcript-based argument map, fact audit, strongest proposition, strongest rebuttal, and evidence-based synthesis
- Sam Shamoun on Quran and Muhammad Contradictions (PBD 684) — transcript analysis and debate arguments
Library & Working Material
- Islam books and reading · Islam Curriculum
- Islam - Working Notes — research queue and substantive material preserved from the former MOC
- Miscellaneous notes — uncategorized source material awaiting integration
Related across the vault
- 60.11 Religion · Preservation of Religious Text · What is best basis for society? Religion or Secular?
- Sam Harris · Religion in Politics · The Religion of Immigration
Handwritten Notebook Pages
Source
- Open Islam notebook pages — start at notebook p. 14 (file not included in this release)
- Open Islam notebook pages — start at notebook p. 26 (file not included in this release)
Handwritten Notebook Topics
- Al-Wala wa-l-Bara — loyalty, disavowal, and competing interpretations
Filed captures and working notes — October 2026
Islamic history, movements and attributed source notes
- Ayaan Hirsi Al - The Growing Threat of Radical Islam — preserved working note or source capture
- Calls for Sharia in the UK — preserved working note or source capture
- Dawah — preserved working note or source capture
- Dhimmi — preserved working note or source capture
- ISLAM IS THE FUTURE - Destiny vs Sulaiman Ahmed Debate Review David Wood Apostate Prophet LIVE — preserved working note or source capture
- Islam Invasion of India — preserved working note or source capture
- Islamic Terror in the UK — preserved working note or source capture
- Jews in Islamic Countries — preserved working note or source capture
- Leftists and Islam — preserved working note or source capture
- Muslim Brotherhood — preserved working note or source capture
- Quran Quotes — preserved working note or source capture
- Radical Islamists using Western arguments — preserved working note or source capture
- Salafi movement — preserved working note or source capture
- Woke Useful Idiots HELPED Islamists Take Power - Apostate Prophet — preserved working note or source capture
- Word play by Islamist — preserved working note or source capture
- majority Muslim countries — preserved working note or source capture
Captured sources on moral and legal disputes
- Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars Rape of Slaves, Prisoners, and Wives — preserved working note or source capture
- semi-detailed overview of pedophilia in Islam — preserved working note or source capture
Auto-index
Base index
60.11.1 Islam.base (file not included in this release)