periods: PER_ISL_MEDIEVAL

56 historical periods covering all traditions, from the Predynastic Egyptian period (c. 3200 BCE) to the 20th-century occultist reception layer. Used to anchor entity classifications and relationships in time.

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period_id	tradition	period_name	start_year	end_year	notes
PER_ISL_MEDIEVAL	Islamic	Medieval Islam	1258	1517	Post-Abbasid era after the Mongol sack of Baghdad; flourishing of the Sufi orders (turuq) and Persian/Turkish mystical poetry, to the rise of the Ottoman and Safavid empires.

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