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Islamic Creeds: A Selection

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Divinity Atlas. "Islamic Creeds: A Selection." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/islamic-creeds-a-selection.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Islamic Creeds: A Selection. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/islamic-creeds-a-selection

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@misc{divinityatlas-islamic-creeds-a-selection,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Islamic Creeds: A Selection},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/islamic-creeds-a-selection},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

W. Montgomery Watt's is a scholarly translated selection of classical Islamic creedal texts spanning Sunni, Shia and other theological schools, with critical introduction addressing doctrinal positions such as the createdness of the Quran and human free will directly from the primary creedal texts themselves. This record states its honest limit plainly: it is a mid-twentieth-century translation, and later Islamic studies scholarship has refined some of Watt's specific readings, so a claim about current denominational consensus may need a more recent source alongside it. Use it for the content of these classical creeds and the doctrinal positions they represent as Watt translates and introduces them.

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Reliability Tier

W. Montgomery Watt's scholarly translated selection of classical Islamic creedal texts spanning Sunni, Shia and other theological schools, with critical introduction; this record states honestly that it is a mid-twentieth-century translation and later scholarship has refined some of Watt's specific readings.

Notes

W. Montgomery Watt's scholarly translated selection of classical Islamic creedal texts spanning Sunni, Shia and other theological schools, with critical introduction. Use for the content of these creeds and the doctrinal positions they represent, such as the createdness of the Quran and human free will; a mid-twentieth-century scholarly translation, and later Islamic studies scholarship has refined some of its readings, so a claim about current denominational consensus may need a more recent source alongside it.

Citation

Author

W. Montgomery Watt

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Publication Year

1994

URL

https://www.worldcat.org/title/islamic-creeds-a-selection/oclc/462827214

Source Type

academic monograph

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Sunni

This source names Sunni directly: "Islamic creedal texts spanning Sunni, Shia and other theological schools, with critical introduction addressing doctrinal positions such as the createdness of the Quran and human free will directly..."

Source Islamic Creeds: A SelectionW. Montgomery Watt

Claims Backed By This Source (258 claims)

This source backs 258 claims across the atlas. As facts: 152 well-attested, 4 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 35 holds, 4 connected, 6 critiqued Here, 7 rejected Here. Plus 50 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Doctrines, 70 claims: 36 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 10 holds, 6 critiqued Here, 17 general references.
Beliefs & Restrictions, 47 claims: 36 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 9 general references.
Articles, 41 claims: 30 well-attested, 4 connected, 7 general references.
Schools of Theology, 41 claims: 23 well-attested, 10 holds, 4 rejected Here, 4 general references.
Denominations, 19 claims: 1 well-attested, 9 holds, 3 rejected Here, 6 general references.
Creeds & Confessions, 13 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 5 holds, 2 general references.
Pantheons, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 general references.
Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
Practices, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
Religions, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
Rituals, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
Schools of Religious Law, 1 claims: 1 general references.