Entity Periods

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

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confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low — certainty of the period assignment'}
rationale
{'description': 'Justification with source citations'}

1 row where entity_id = "ENT_SUF_TIJANIYYA"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_SUF_TIJANIYYA,PER_ISL_EARLY_MODERN Tijaniyya ENT_SUF_TIJANIYYA Early-Modern Sufism (Ottoman/Safavid/Mughal) PER_ISL_EARLY_MODERN high Tariqa founded by Ahmad al-Tijani (d.1815) in North Africa, claiming a direct waking-vision investiture from the Prophet Muhammad (the order's distinctive 'seal of the saints' claim). One of the largest Sufi orders of West and North Africa, with its own litanies (the Wazifa and Salat al-Fatih). SRC_TIJANI_JAWAHIR reviewed

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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);