Relationships

2,079 typed, source-backed relationships between entities. Each row records a directed relationship (subject → type → object) with a justifying source and rationale note. See relationship_types for the full controlled vocabulary of 70 relationship types. Key types: reception_of / received_as (transmission across traditions), equated_with (interpretatio graeca / analogues), parent_of (genealogy), member_of (collective membership), emanates_from (Gnostic/Neoplatonic structure).

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subject_entity_id
{'description': 'The entity initiating or holding the relationship'}
relationship_type
{'description': 'Typed relationship from the controlled vocabulary (see relationship_types table)'}
object_entity_id
{'description': 'The entity receiving or targeted by the relationship'}
confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low / speculative'}
rationale
{'description': 'Scholarly justification for the relationship, with source citations'}
source_id
{'description': 'Primary source justifying this relationship'}
period_id
{'description': 'Historical period in which this relationship is attested (null = all periods)'}

5 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_SUF_HALLAJ"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
2518 al-Junayd al-Baghdadi ENT_SUF_JUNAYD teaches al-Hallaj ENT_SUF_HALLAJ high Hallaj was a disciple of Junayd before breaking with the sober school. Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 1975) SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM reviewed Classical Islam PER_ISL_CLASSICAL
2567 Ibn al-Arabi ENT_SUF_IBN_ARABI reception_of al-Hallaj ENT_SUF_HALLAJ medium Ibn al-Arabi engages and reinterprets al-Hallaj's ecstatic claims of union within his metaphysics. Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 1975) SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM reviewed Classical Islam PER_ISL_CLASSICAL
6524 Tawusi Melek (Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel) ENT_YAZ_TAWUSI_MELEK aligned_with al-Hallaj ENT_SUF_HALLAJ low The Yazidi exaltation of the foremost angel echoes the Sufi (Hallajian) defense of Iblis's refusal to bow as supreme love/obedience to God alone; a theological parallel, not an identification (Spat). Eszter Spat, The Yezidis (London: Saqi, 2005) SRC_SPAT_YEZIDIS reviewed  
6573 Divine Essence (Dhat / Haqq) ENT_YRS_DIVINE_ESSENCE aligned_with al-Hallaj ENT_SUF_HALLAJ low Yarsan tradition reveres al-Hallaj as a figure of the manifest Haqq; his 'ana al-Haqq' resonates with Yarsan manifestation doctrine (Hamzeh'ee). Object ENT_SUF_HALLAJ verified existing. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Inner Truth and Outer History: The Two Worlds of the Ahl-i Haqq of Kurdistan (IJMES 1994) SRC_MIRHOSSEINI_AHLEHAQQ reviewed  
6962 Allah-Muhammad-Ali (the Alevi triad) ENT_ALV_TRINITY aligned_with al-Hallaj ENT_SUF_HALLAJ low The Alevi divinization-of-Ali motif draws on the antinomian Sufi current of divine immanence exemplified by al-Hallaj's 'Ana al-Haqq' (existing ENT_SUF_HALLAJ); doctrinal alignment of theme. Markus Dressler, Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam (Oxford UP, 2013) SRC_DRESSLER_WRITING reviewed  

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CREATE TABLE "entity_relationships" (
   [relationship_id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
   [subject_entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [relationship_type] TEXT REFERENCES [relationship_types]([relationship_type]),
   [object_entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [review_status] TEXT,
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_period_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_source_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_object_entity_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([object_entity_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_relationship_type]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([relationship_type]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_subject_entity_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([subject_entity_id]);