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)'}

9 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_SUF_JILANI"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
6065 Ahmad al-Badawi ENT_SUF_BADAWI aligned_with Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI low Counted among the great popular saints venerated alongside Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani. Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 1975) SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM reviewed  
6251 Uthman dan Fodio ENT_SUF_DAN_FODIO reception_of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI high Uthman dan Fodio was a Qadiri shaykh who venerated Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani and propagated the Qadiri order in West Africa. Uthman dan Fodio, Ihya al-Sunna wa-Ikhmad al-Bid'a and reform corpus (early 19th c.) SRC_DAN_FODIO_IHYA reviewed  
6252 Bulleh Shah ENT_SUF_BULLEH_SHAH reception_of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI medium Bulleh Shah belonged to the Qadiri-Shattari stream (via Inayat Shah Qadiri), in the Qadiri lineage descending from al-Jilani. Bulleh Shah, Kafis (Punjabi Sufi poetry, 18th c.) SRC_BULLEH_SHAH_KAFIS reviewed  
6253 Sultan Bahu ENT_SUF_SULTAN_BAHU reception_of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI high Sultan Bahu founded the Sarwari Qadiri sub-line, a branch of the Qadiri order of al-Jilani. Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 1975) SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM reviewed  
6255 Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai ENT_SUF_BHITTAI reception_of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI medium Bhittai stood in the Sindhi Qadiri devotional milieu descending from al-Jilani. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Shah Jo Risalo (Sindhi Sufi poetry, 18th c.) SRC_BHITTAI_SHAH_JO_RISALO reviewed  
6257 Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri ENT_SUF_JAZAIRI reception_of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI high He was a Qadiri amir-saint in the lineage of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (his namesake). Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 1975) SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM reviewed  
6262 Dara Shikoh ENT_SUF_NASAFI_DARA reception_of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI medium Dara Shikoh was initiated in the Qadiri order (via Mulla Shah Badakhshi and Mian Mir), in al-Jilani's lineage. Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 1975) SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM reviewed  
6354 Ahmadou Bamba ENT_SUF_BAMBA reception_of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI high Bamba was first initiated in the Qadiriyya founded by Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani before establishing the Mouridiyya. Ahmadou Bamba (Cheikh Amadou Bamba), Khassaïd (devotional poems of the Mouridiyya) SRC_BAMBA_KHASAID reviewed  
6523 Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir ENT_YAZ_SHEIKH_ADI reception_of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ENT_SUF_JILANI medium Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir was a historical Sufi ascetic of the Qadiri-adjacent Baghdad milieu of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani; Yazidism received him as a supreme manifestation (Kreyenbroek). Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Yezidism: Its Background, Observances and Textual Tradition (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) SRC_KREYENBROEK_YEZIDISM 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]);