Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Islam

Islam-related articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 8 9 15 33 FL 1 1 2 FM 17 17 A 1 1 2 GA 7 13 38 77 12 147 B 72 93 229 400 86 880 C 107 138 412 1,521 269 2,447 Start 42 91 453 3,469 1 865 4,921 Stub 8 11 205 2,953 760 3,937 List 2 12 114 181 3 35 347 Category 1 1 5,449 5,451 Disambig 1 3 123 1 128 File 2 43 45 Portal 330 330 Project 113 113 Redirect 6 17 46 143 642 854 Template 1 476 477 Other 109 109 Assessed 246 385 1,511 8,764 7,306 2,028 20,240 Unassessed 1 22 556 579 Total 246 386 1,511 8,786 7,306 2,584 20,819 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 60,951 Ω = 4.93

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Translation for the article Mosque of Uqba

Hi, Mosque of Uqba or Great Mosque of Kairouan is one of the best preserved and oldest monuments (mosques) in Islamic civilization. It is also a great masterpiece of architecture. The french version "Grande mosquée de Kairouan" is a featured article (in french Article de qualité). It would be very interesting to translate the french article. I can help for the architectural terms. Cordially Quincy2010 (talk) 01:35, 16 March 2010 (CET)

Request for input in discussion forum

Given the closely linked subjects of the various religion, mythology, and philosophy groups, it seems to me that we might benefit from having some sort of regular topical discussion forum to discuss the relevant content. I have put together the beginnings of an outline for such discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/2011 meeting, and would very much appreciate the input of any interested editors. I am thinking that it might run over two months, the first of which would be to bring forward and discuss the current state of the content, and the second for perhaps some more focused discussion on what, if any, specific efforts might be taken in the near future. Any and all input is more than welcome. John Carter (talk)

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Source reliability

There's a discussion going on at RSN (here) over the reliability of a book called The Sealed Nectar, which is relied on extensively in a series of articles created by one user and whose reliability or lack thereof may affect a pending DYK nomination. Your input would be appreciated. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 01:01, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Suggested date-conversion style

A discussion is currently open on MOS:ISLAM regarding a proposed guidlines when adding a converted date from Higri to Gregorian calendar. Your thoughts are highly appreciated... Thanks ~ AdvertAdam ^talk 03:03, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Islamic divorce

The articles on divorce in Islam are a mess. We currently have the following articles:

• Divorce (Islamic), previously titled talaq
• Talaq (conflict)
• Khula
• Triple talaq

These articles are confusing and contradictory. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Islam to clean up the mess. Here are some specific things that I'm confused about:

• What does the word talaq actually refer to? Divorce in general (including secular)? Just Islamic divorces? A specific procedure of divorce used by Islamic men but not by women?
• What does the word khula actually refer to?
• Are these words used by non-Arab muslims?
• Is khula practiced in both Sunni and Shia Islam? If so, are there differences?
• What are the difference between talaq and khula?
• If an Islamic couple wants to get divorced in a secular state, what do they do? Do they typically do both a legal divorce and a religious divorce? Do they refer to the two with different words?
• Is there any reason why all 4 of the articles above can't be merged under Divorce (Islamic)?

Kaldari (talk) 00:52, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Eid ul-Fitr

Sorry for the late notice, but this article is supposed to be included in August 30, but it looks like it will be omitted due to lack of references (the "Practice by country" section looks problematic—also note that it wasn't me who added the refimprove tag). Hopefully y'all can clean this up in two days. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 20:15, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Criticism of Judaism

Discussions as to what the article should and should not contain have restarted on Talk:Criticism of Judaism, and outside comments would be helpful. Please see the archives and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Noleander#Discretionary sanctions for history and active sanctions. Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 05:49, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Ad-Dunya (This World)

I have dePRODded this article, which was sourced only to what seems to be a blog, and added a book reference. Can anyone expand or provide more references? JohnCD (talk) 19:59, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Al-Muzzammil

I'm of the opinion that this and any similar articles should be taken to AfD if all they are just going to be copies of the verses (even if there is an English translation accompanying them). Can anyone point to policy or guideline reasons they should be kept? Dougweller (talk) 17:50, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Sounds right. We don't have copies of all verses of the bible, or even (AFAIK) articles about important verses. Do we? I see we have, eg, Vayikra (parsha) but that is full of commentary William M. Connolley (talk) 19:03, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Oh dear, except I see (following the template there) that we do have all the sura. Deleting them all would presumably annoy someone William M. Connolley (talk) 19:05, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Probably, but I can see no policy reason that justifies their existence, which is why I'm asking. Dougweller (talk) 06:06, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

On yet another hand, I see there is a biblewiki, e.g.: http://www.biblewiki.be/wiki/Daniel_Chapter_12. So a surawiki or quaranwiki would be the correct analogue William M. Connolley (talk) 20:56, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Article needed?

I've recently done some minor copyediting on a couple of Islamic schools, and have come across the term "Nazra" to describe one of the subjects they teach. It appears to be related to the Quran in some way, but I can't find any information on it (besides the fact that courses in it appears to be offered very widely). We don't have a Nazra article; is it a topic of sufficient note that we need one? I for one would like to know what it is! Yunshui (talk) 10:54, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Multi-move discussion

Readers here may be interested in contributing to a proposal regarding the renaming of 11 Ottoman Eyalet articles. See Talk:Mosul Eyalet#Multi-move. Cheers. -GTBacchus^(talk) 13:14, 25 September 2011 (UTC)