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Start from a topic

Each topic has a dossier: his checked positions with the exact sentence and its timestamp, his view year by year (Thought Evolution), the verses, hadith, scholars and books cited on it, and the views he quotes.

Thought Evolution

The topics on which he has a checked position in the most different years. A large dot is a year with at least one; the dossier sets the statements side by side, oldest first, so a change of view, or its absence, can be read directly.

• Legal theory and method 64 checked positions in 10 years
• Character and virtue 25 checked positions in 10 years
• The Maliki school 59 checked positions in 9 years
• Scholars and imams of the past 55 checked positions in 9 years
• The life of the Prophet 77 checked positions in 8 years
• Islam and modernity 49 checked positions in 8 years
• Schools of law and following them 45 checked positions in 8 years
• Dress and appearance 39 checked positions in 8 years

Questions, and where to answer them

1. What exactly did he say about X, and where?Verbatim, timestamped and citable, in each topic's dossier.
2. How has his view on X evolved?Thought Evolution: checked positions year by year.
3. On what sources does he base it?Verses (quran.com), hadith (sunnah.com), scholars and books, with counts.
4. Whom does he rely on, whom does he argue against?Citations split by held and quoted views; stance is not recorded yet.
5. Is this his view, or one he quoted?Every answer that discusses a quoted view.
6. Which principles recur?Method across unrelated topics.
7. How do I cite it, or work with the data?Downloads, citation formats, tiers and limits.

Optional: the connection graph

An interactive lookup of what occurs with what: the authority map (topics by scholars and sources) and the strongest pairs across 1,904 answers. It opens on its own page and loads its data only then.

Open the connection graph · What has not been answered yet