entities: ENT_ISL_ISA

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use category to filter by functional type (146 values: Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Revealer Figure, etc.). Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_ISL_ISA ʿĪsā ibn Maryam   Islamic Prophet/messenger Holy Figure prophecy; healing; revelation; eschatology   Islamic   A candidate_verified_name Primary Quranic attestation: Suras 3:45-49, 4:157-159, 5:110-117, 19:16-33       ʿĪsā ibn Maryam (Jesus son of Mary); Quranic prophet and messenger of God. Born of a virgin birth (Quran 19:20-22), confirmed by miracles including healing the blind and lepers and raising the dead (Quran 3:49), and given the Injīl (Gospel). Explicitly not divine in Islamic theology: "He was only a messenger of Allah" (Quran 4:171). One of the five Ulu al-Azm (Prophets of Firm Resolve) along with Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Muhammad. Islamic eschatology holds that ʿĪsā will return before the Day of Judgment to defeat the Dajjal (Quran 43:61; Hadith tradition). The Quranic ʿĪsā is the Islamic reception of the Jesus tradition (ENT_JESUS_CHRIST); the two figures share the virgin birth and healing miracles but diverge sharply on christology. prophet

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