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Takfir (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's article on takfir, the Islamic declaration that another Muslim is an unbeliever, consulted 2026-08-13.

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3
Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points.
Notes
Wikipedia's article on takfir, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Kharijites' assassination of Caliph Ali in 661 CE, Ibn Taymiyyah's fourteenth-century Mongol-apostasy precedent, al-Ghazali's case against excessive takfir, and Sayyid Qutb's 1964 Milestones and its modern extremist afterlife.
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Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takfir
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reference
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)

This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Doctrines, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 general references.
  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.

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12

Doctrines

General References

4

Doctrines

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