Divinity Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
3,315 statements marked Debated.
Hurrian Religion, Origin Period End Year-1200
Hurrian Religion, Religions
Standing
Concerns Origin Period End Year
Currently States -1200
Marks the Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BCE, when the Hittite state that had absorbed Hurrian mythology came apart along with most of the wider Bronze Age Near East; Hurrian religious elements persisted in scattered later practice, so this is a political boundary rather than a clean end to belief.
Source Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia, Piotr Taracha
Huynh Phu So, Manner of DeathExecuted
Huynh Phu So, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Manner of Death
Currently States Executed
Hoa Hao tradition holds his fate as an unresolved disappearance rather than a confirmed killing, since his body was never recovered; outside historians generally treat the 1947 killing by Viet Minh forces as established.
Source Hoa Hao Buddhism in the Course of Vietnam's History, Nguyen Long Thanh Nam (translated by Sergei Blagov)
I, Chaldean Letter Value1
I, Alphabet Letters
Standing
Concerns Chaldean Letter Value
Currently States 1
According To Modern planetary numerology, the scheme called Chaldean
The values recorded here follow Cheiro's Book of Numbers (Cheiro, the pen name of William John Warner, published by Herbert Jenkins, London, 1926), the most widely reproduced version of the so-called Chaldean numerology table. Cheiro's own text names no ancient Chaldean source for the letter values it assigns, and comparing it against other published numerology tables from the same and later periods finds no agreement between them on several letters; no Mesopotamian or Chaldean text has ever been produced that contains a comparable letter-number correspondence. That comparison is why historians of the modern occult treat "Chaldean" as a nineteenth and twentieth century marketing label rather than a checkable lineage claim. The value recorded here is Cheiro's published reading, not a settled fact.
Source Cheiro's Book of Numbers, Cheiro (William John Warner)
Ian Stevenson, Standing as a Comparative CategorySupporters credit his methodical, documentary approach, recording children's statements before they could be checked against a deceased person's life. Critics argue the research relies on anecdote rather than controlled experiment and is vulnerable to confirmation bias. Stevenson himself held that his data was suggestive of reincarnation without compelling belief in it.
Ian Stevenson, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Standing as a Comparative Category
Currently States Supporters credit his methodical, documentary approach, recording children's statements before they could be checked against a deceased person's life. Critics argue the research relies on anecdote rather than controlled experiment and is vulnerable to confirmation bias. Stevenson himself held that his data was suggestive of reincarnation without compelling belief in it.
Source Ian Stevenson (Wikipedia), Wikipedia contributors
Ibadism, Adherents TodayEstimates of Oman's Ibadi Muslim population range from about 35 to 45 percent of the country's roughly 5 million people (1.76 to 2.25 million), with no official government count to settle the range; Ibadism remains the largest single Islamic school in Oman, concentrated in rural and interior regions.
Ibadism, Denominations
Standing
Concerns Adherents Today
Currently States Estimates of Oman's Ibadi Muslim population range from about 35 to 45 percent of the country's roughly 5 million people (1.76 to 2.25 million), with no official government count to settle the range; Ibadism remains the largest single Islamic school in Oman, concentrated in rural and interior regions.
Oman's government does not publish official statistics on citizens' religious affiliation, so every figure here is an outside estimate. The CIA World Factbook (as archived and cited via Wikipedia) put Ibadi Muslims at 35.2 percent of Oman's population against 47.2 percent Sunni and 6.5 percent Shia; a separate Minority Rights Group estimate instead put Ibadism at 45 percent. Applied to Oman's reported 2023 population of just over 5 million, the two estimates imply roughly 1.76 million to 2.25 million Ibadi Muslims, a computed range rather than a directly reported count.
Source Oman, Religions (The World Factbook, 2021 Archive, Central Intelligence Agency)
Ibadism, Adherents Today Minimum1760000.000000
Ibadism, Denominations
Standing
Concerns Adherents Today Minimum
Currently States 1760000.000000
35.2 percent of Oman's reported 2023 population of about 5,000,772 (CIA World Factbook figure, archived 2021, as cited via Wikipedia), a computed figure rather than a directly reported count; Oman's government publishes no official statistics on citizens' religious affiliation, so this lower bound rests on an archived outside estimate rather than a census result.
Source Oman, Religions (The World Factbook, 2021 Archive, Central Intelligence Agency)
Ibadism, Adherents Today Maximum2250000.000000
Ibadism, Denominations
Standing
Concerns Adherents Today Maximum
Currently States 2250000.000000
45 percent of Oman's reported 2023 population of about 5,000,772 (Minority Rights Group estimate, 2023), a computed figure rather than a directly reported count; Oman's government publishes no official statistics on citizens' religious affiliation, so every Ibadi population figure in circulation is an outside estimate rather than a census result.
Source Oman, Religions (The World Factbook, 2021 Archive, Central Intelligence Agency)
Ibadism, Membership Figure As Of2023-01-01
Ibadism, Denominations
Standing
Concerns Membership Figure As Of
Currently States 2023-01-01
No single dated count exists for Ibadi Muslims in Oman; 2023 is used here because that is when the higher-cited Minority Rights Group percentage estimate and Oman's most recent reported population figure were both current, allowing the two to be combined into a range.
Source Oman, Religions (The World Factbook, 2021 Archive, Central Intelligence Agency)
Ibadism, Basis of the Membership FigureScholarly or Demographic Estimate
Ibadism, Denominations
Standing
Concerns Basis of the Membership Figure
Currently States Scholarly or Demographic Estimate
No Omani census records religious affiliation, so both bounds given here are outside demographic estimates rather than a government count: a CIA World Factbook figure for the lower bound and a Minority Rights Group estimate for the upper bound.
Source Oman, Religions (The World Factbook, 2021 Archive, Central Intelligence Agency)
Ibadism, Membership Over TimeIbadi Muslims are most often put at 35 to 45 percent of Oman's population, roughly 1.76 to 2.25 million people as of Oman's 2023 population of just over 5 million, with the government publishing no official religious count to settle the range.
Ibadism, Denominations
Standing
Concerns Membership Over Time
Currently States Ibadi Muslims are most often put at 35 to 45 percent of Oman's population, roughly 1.76 to 2.25 million people as of Oman's 2023 population of just over 5 million, with the government publishing no official religious count to settle the range.
A computed range, not a direct count; see adherents-min and adherents-max.
Source Oman, Religions (The World Factbook, 2021 Archive, Central Intelligence Agency)
Ibn Abbas, Lifespan or Floruit Start Year619
Ibn Abbas, Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit Start Year
Currently States 619
The source gives this year as about, its own approximate estimate rather than a fixed date.
Source Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill), 2nd and 3rd editions, P. Bearman et al. (eds.)
Ibn Abbas, Lifespan or Floruit End Year687
Ibn Abbas, Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit End Year
Currently States 687
The source gives this year as about, its own approximate estimate rather than a fixed date.
Source Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill), 2nd and 3rd editions, P. Bearman et al. (eds.)
Ibn Ata Allah al-Sakandari, Lifespan or Floruit Start Year1259
Ibn Ata Allah al-Sakandari, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit Start Year
Currently States 1259
Biographical sources give the Hijri year 658, converted to 1259 CE, as his birth year; the conversion between calendars and the ordinary uncertainty of a medieval birth record both leave some margin around the figure.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica: Verified Biographies (online academic reference), Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Ibn Battuta, Lifespan or Floruit End Year1369
Ibn Battuta, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit End Year
Currently States 1369
Sources for Ibn Battuta's death give either 1368 or 1369, and biographers do not treat the discrepancy as settled; 1369 is recorded here as the commonly cited later figure rather than a fixed date, unlike his 1304 birth in Tangier, which is not itself disputed.
Source Ibn Battuta (reference article), Wikipedia contributors
Ibn Kathir, Lifespan or Floruit Start Year1300
Ibn Kathir, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit Start Year
Currently States 1300
The source gives this year as about, its own approximate estimate rather than a fixed date.
Source Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill), 2nd and 3rd editions, P. Bearman et al. (eds.)
Ibn Kathir, Lifespan or Floruit End Year1373
Ibn Kathir, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit End Year
Currently States 1373
The source gives this year as about, its own approximate estimate rather than a fixed date.
Source Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill), 2nd and 3rd editions, P. Bearman et al. (eds.)
Ibn Majah, Lifespan or Floruit Start Year824
Ibn Majah, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit Start Year
Currently States 824
The source gives this year as about, its own approximate estimate rather than a fixed date.
Source Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill), 2nd and 3rd editions, P. Bearman et al. (eds.)
Ibn Majah, Lifespan or Floruit End Year887
Ibn Majah, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit End Year
Currently States 887
The source gives this year as about, its own approximate estimate rather than a fixed date.
Source Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill), 2nd and 3rd editions, P. Bearman et al. (eds.)
Ibn Tumart, Lifespan or Floruit Start Year1080
Ibn Tumart, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit Start Year
Currently States 1080
The source gives this year as about, its own approximate estimate rather than a fixed date.
Source The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W. P. Heinrichs (eds.)
Ibn Tumart, Lifespan or Floruit End Year1130
Ibn Tumart, Historical Figures
Standing
Concerns Lifespan or Floruit End Year
Currently States 1130
The source gives this year as about, its own approximate estimate rather than a fixed date.
Source The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition, P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W. P. Heinrichs (eds.)