Editorial policy

The corpus follows mainstream Sunni historiography by default — one coherent editorial voice, not a judgment on other traditions. Entries specific to other traditions are tagged with their tradition and kept out of the default view; they are preserved, never deleted, and may surface if scope widens.

Every submission needs at least one named source with a URL. Source types are ranked: classical chronicles outweigh modern references, which outweigh devotional sites. Anonymous pages and forums are not sources. We show the type of every citation so readers can weigh the evidence themselves.

We record the date the sources give at the precision they give it — day, month, or year — and never sharpen it. When sources disagree, the entry records the disagreement and carries a Disputed rating rather than a resolution. See how our dating works.

The record collects broadly, modern history included. Each entry is scored by an editor for significance, centrality to Islamic history, and how contested its framing is today; the default reader view filters on those scores, and highly contested events stay in the record — in search, in the API, on their own pages — without becoming the front page. Recent history is contested in ways a calendar should not referee, so the fight is scored, not hosted.

Every submission is reviewed by a human. AI assessments are advisory and labelled. Every rejection carries a reason category and a written explanation, visible to the contributor — nothing is silently dropped. Approvals credit contributor and reviewer in the entry's public history.