User:Mukadderat/sandbox

Missing category
Islamic rulers (Muslim rulers) do not fit into the same slot as European rulers (covered by category:Royalty ): the terms "islamic royalty" or "Muslim royalty" are quite unconventional, hence they cannot be names of categories for Islamic rulers. At the same time there was, e.g., King of Iraq, but this referes to monarchy artificially planted by British, i.e., not inherently islamic notion. I feel that the "Islamic ruler" is badly missing and I will attempt to start filling this gap with my shamefully limited knowledge.

The difrficulty is that the Islamic world has been very vast and encompassed highly diverse cultures, so that titles for rulers and their meaning varied significantly in time and space.

Islamic
category=Islamic rulers

Islamic-ruler-stub:

WPSS-cat Stub Category

Ruler

Muslim
category=Muslim rulers in Category:Muslims by occupation

Muslim-ruler-stub:

WPSS-cat Stub Category

Ruler

Discussion

 * The "Muslim" term seems to have preference both in google and in wikipedia.
 * The category may also cover secular rulers: President of Turkey ("islamic" would mean inherently "related to Islam", while "muslim" is also used in terms "muslim people", "muslim countries", i.e., means inherently "people" who happen to confess Islam, but may act in non-Islam-related circumstances)