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[edit] Mission and Scope

The mission of WikiProject Islam is to ensure that Islam-related articles on Wikipedia are written in an encyclopedic style, in a neutral and non-sectarian manner, using verifiable and reliable scholarly sources. This is the best place to discuss issues which affect Islam-related articles in general. Discussions about particular articles should be handled on the talk pages of those articles.

The scope of this WikiProject is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Islam available on Wikipedia.

[edit] Guidelines for editing Islam articles

Main article: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)

If you are a newcomer, the most important and often over-looked point to remember while editing Wikipedia is: You cannot insert your own particular viewpoints into articles. Articles should typically reflect the verifiable opinions of qualified academic scholars, in neutral and balanced prose. The Qur'an and hadith are considered primary sources but they shouldn't be quoted in support of a particular argument unless also backed up by a cite to a reliable secondary source. Also remember to cite your sources correctly. If you feel a viewpoint merits mention, you can find some material which may constitute a reliable source by checking books, journals, articles, newspapers and other sources.

To promote consistency in the way articles are written and edited, a manual of style with recommended guidelines exists. Visit its talk page for current discussion.

[edit] To do

Place the project banner {{WikiProject Islam}} on the talk pages of all articles that fall within the scope of the project.
Add the articles to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam/Articles list by category.
Check the recent changes for recent improvements, vandalism, and other changes.

[edit] Participants/Members

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam/Members

[edit] Departments

Departments are specific group of members who do the meta work. Tasks include keeping the project going, maintaining the project pages, related portals, assessing articles, participating in peer reviews, managing the consensus within the project and so on. The following is a list of departments within the WikiProject. WikiProject Members may not necessarily do only departmental tasks. They can contribute content as a member of Work Groups as well.

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles related to Islam. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

[edit] Statistics

WP:Islam article rating and assessment scheme
(NB: Listing, Log & Stats are updated on a daily basis by a bot)

Current detailed listing of Islam articles by quality

Daily log of status changes

Current Statistics

Islam-related articles		Importance
Islam-related articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2		3		2	7
	FL		1				1
	GA	3	4	11	11	3	32
	B	16	42	88	30	55	231
	C	12	32	41	30	20	135
	Start	18	71	179	224	290	782
	Stub	2	14	67	382	298	763
	List	1	7	16	12	28	64
	Assessed	54	171	405	689	696	2015
	Unassessed					161	161
	Total	54	171	405	689	857	2176

[edit] Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of Islam-related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

[edit] Task forces

[edit] Related task forces

Early Muslim military history task force (watchlist)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Recognized content

Islam-related articles		Importance
Islam-related articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2		3		2	7
	FL		1				1
	GA	3	4	11	11	3	32
	B	16	42	88	30	55	231
	C	12	32	41	30	20	135
	Start	18	71	179	224	290	782
	Stub	2	14	67	382	298	763
	List	1	7	16	12	28	64
	Assessed	54	171	405	689	696	2015
	Unassessed					161	161
	Total	54	171	405	689	857	2176

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured lists

The Twelve Imams

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Valued pictures

[edit] Did You Know (DYK)s

Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad - 4 April 2008.

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

Ibn Battuta

[edit] Current issues

Although members of the project are usually aware of current problems and specific tasks to perform in Islam articles, non-members - who are encouraged to help with these - may not be. Generally, discussions of articles take place on talk pages of those articles, but below is a list of some important problems and tasks.

*Open tasks for WikiProject Islam*
[edit ] Top priorities	[edit ] Cleanup / Wikify	[edit ] Missing articles	[edit ] Expansion
Allah Islamic concept of God Islam Qur'an Muhammad Islamophobia	Islamic concept of God Islam in Suriname Iran's Cultural Revolution of 1980-1987 Islam by country	Islamic historiography Standard Qur'an History of Muslims in Latin America	Black Muslims Islamic funeral Ja'fari jurisprudence Sa'sa'a bin Sohan Latino Muslims Tawaf Wudu according to the four Madhhab Minhaj-ul-Quran Peace TV Islam by country (including related articles) Yusuf Estes list of largest mosques
[edit ] Merges	[edit ] Discussions	[edit ] Maps, Pictures, Timelines etc.
Kalam-Muslim theology Historical Shi'a-Sunni relations-Historic background of the Sunni-Shi'a split Eid festival-Hari Raya-Hari Raya Aidilfitri Islamic concept of God - Tawhid Allah in Islam Islam and modernity - Modern Islamic philosophy	Talk:Muhammad Talk:Muhammad/Mediation - Muhammad depictions debate Talk:Qur'an Talk:Criticism of Islam Talk:Battle of Khaybar Talk:Banu Qurayza Talk:Kaaba - Picture of Muhammad debate Ka'bah - WP:BRD - Spelling of name	Template:Islam Template:QuranRelated Template:Muhammad Template:Mosques Template:Prophets in the Qur'an Template:Prophets, salaf and caliphs Template:Umar Template:Uthman Template:ShiaTerms Template:Shia Islam Template:islam by country Template:Islam and China Template:Islam in India
[edit ] Neutrality and Factual accuracy disputed	[edit ] Original or Unverified articles	[edit ] GA and FA articles
Islamic terms Qur'an Origin and development of the Qur'an Offensive jihad Sharia Tahrif Ahl al-Bayt Zakat Jizya#Historical development People of the Book Head Imam Notable persons Khadijah bint Khuwaylid Husayn ibn Ali Musa al-Kadhim Ali al-Rida Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy Mohammad Mofatteh Ruhollah Khomeini Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari Historical issues Banu Qurayza Succession to Muhammad Contemporary issues Hizb ut-Tahrir Jamaat-e-Islami Salafi Wahhabism Other issues Islamic science Islamic psychological thought Islam and antisemitism Shi'a view of the Sahaba Shia view of the Qur'an Islam in China Islamic terrorism Berbers and Islam Niqāb	Prophets of Islam Muhammad as a diplomat Liberal movements within Islam Sharia Global Islamic insurgency theory Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork Islamic Reformation Modern Islamic philosophy Islamic astrology Ash'ari Medina Battle of Bassorah Battle of Nahrawan People of the Book Religious_conversion#Conversion_to_Islam	Featured articles Islam Mosque Noah's Ark Battles Battle of Badr Second Crusade Religious leaders and scholars Twelve Imams (list) Syed Ahmed Khan Muhammad Iqbal Suleiman the Magnificent Malcolm X Good articles Islamic terms Allah Five Pillars of Islam Prophets: Muhammad Jesus Jesus in Islam Ishmael Isaac Islamic view of Ezra Wars and battles: Battle of Manzikert Battle of the Trench Battle of Uhud Byzantine–Arab Wars Byzantine–Ottoman Wars Byzantine-Seljuk Wars Scholars: Al-Kindi Ibn al-Haytham Mosques and shrines: al-Aqsa Mosque Abbey Mills Mosque Great Mosque of Gaza Other issues: Hezbollah Splitting of the moon Astronomy in medieval Islam Sources of Islamic law Ayyubid dynasty FA review A class review Peer review GA review To see the complete list refer to here

[edit] Vandalism/Sock puppet alerts

Please watch out for editing behaviors of these banned puppet masters and revert their edits when suspected:

His excellency (talk · contribs · count · logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · rfcu · ssp · socks confirmedsuspected)
DavidYork71 (talk · contribs · count · logs · block log · lu · rfa · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · rfcu · ssp · socks confirmedsuspected)
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[edit] Articles affected

Controversial articles like Apostasy, Apostasy in Islam, Ibn Khaldun, Dhimmi, and Jihad Watch
Islam and Children (frequented by DavidYork71's socks)
Islamophobia, Criticism of Islam (frequented by H.E.)

[edit] Helpful links for reporting vandalism and getting help

Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism - only for persistent vandals
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents - report block evading users
Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser

[edit] Discussing specific issues

Discussing whether Allah or God should be used in Islam articles.
Discuss suggestions for giving Hadith references.
Discussing whether certain Arabic words and terms are worthy of an article or if they are better placed in Wiktionary.
Discuss whether to use salat or prayer in the salat article (and possibly others).
Discussing whether to use the word "masjid" or "mosque" should be used. (this discussion has started here)

[edit] Tasks

Standardise references to Qur'an translations.
Placing articles in the most appropriate category or categories.
Fix inadvertent placing of new Islam articles in Category:Islam when a better category (or more) can be chosen.
Sandbox: Check the sandbox for developing content
Verify that The Fall of Man correctly states Islam's view on a sinful nature of humanity

[edit] Deletions

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Islam

[edit] Cleanup listing

[edit] Templates

[edit] Project related

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This page is within the scope of WikiProject Islam, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Islam-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

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[edit] Barnstar awards

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	{{subst:Islamic Barnstar Award\|message ~~~~}}	The WikiProject Islamic Barnstar is to be used for the recognition of any excellent contributions to Islam-related articles. Designed and introduced by User:JuanMuslim in May 2006.
	{{subst:The Islamic Barnstar\|message ~~~~}}	May be awarded to an editor who contributes, spreads, or posts helpful information about Islam.

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[edit] Resources

[edit] Reference materials

In accordance with general directives on reliable source usage, Wikipedia should quote qualified scholars of Islam, as Wikipedia policy dictates that authors must be "authoritative in relation to the subject at hand." Other indicators of reliability is whether or not the work is published in a scholarly, peer-reviewed press, or whether the work is itself the subject of independant academic reviews. As per WP:REDFLAG, It is especially important for the source to be of high quality (and perferably there should be multiple sources) when assertions about Islam are made which are unsupported by mainstream academic opinion.

The editors should not write for example "Some Muslims argue X" and then reference it to some Muslim websites unless they could show that the website is representative of the thought of a particular significant group.

- Please note that websites such as "Answering-Christianity.com" are not reliable sources, because they are neither written by famous scholars nor peer reviewed works. Articles at islamic-awareness.org are usually signed by the authors. For those articles, if one can establish that the authors hold an official academic degree (Western or Islamic) and are notable, they could be used when properly attributed to the authors. Articles at islamic-awareness.org are more likely to have references. So, if you found something there, try to look up for its source and then look up the original source. If you are lucky, you'll get a good sourced piece of information.

Arabic Wikisource has many relevant works in the Arabic language. See the Islamic collection there.

[edit] How to find good sources

[edit] General Tips

Encyclopedia of Islam and Encyclopedia of the Qur'an are a very good scholarly resources and one can find information on almost everything. But it is not free unless you belong to an organization that provides access to this for you.
You can have free (but limited) online access to many of their books at books.google.com or amazon.com. You can also search for a word (like Islam) in books.google.com and find good books. It is useful to memorize names of some reputed scholars of Islam, most of whom are listed on the 'List of Islamic studies scholars'. Since the scholarly books are usually published by "University of X" presses, you can also add "university" in the appropriate box in the advanced search to get the more scholarly works.
There is a free version of Henry Corbin's book, "History of Islamic Philosophy", which includes a lot of information about Muslim scholars and Islamic school of thoughts.[1]
If you can afford $15 a month for access to an online library, Questia has a spotty selection of Islam-related books. They don't have everything one would want, but they have enough to justify the money, IMHO. You can search the library without joining.
In the U.S., if you have a library card at the local public library (usually free to city residents) you can often get a card at the library of a nearby public university or community college. This may get you access to their online databases like Lexis/Nexis, Jstor, and the Oxford English Dictionary.