imam

Islamic leadership position
imam
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Summary

imam is an Islamic religious occupation[1]. imam is a type of religious leader[2] and Islamic cleric[3].

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Islam[4]
  • Instance of: title of honor[5], male occupation[6]
  • Part of: Muslim clergy[7]
  • ISCO-88 occupation class: 2460[8]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[9], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], New International Encyclopedia[14]
  • Partially coincident with: Muslim minister[15]
  • Native label: إِمَام[16], اِمام[17], امام[18], imam[19], اِمَام[20]
  • Female form of label: imame[21], Imamin[22], imamino[23], إمامة[24]
  • Male form of label: إمام[25], imam[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Islam[28], WikiProject Arabic names[29]
  • ISCO-08 occupation class: 2636[30]

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Influence

Things named for imam include The Imam[31], a television series[32].

Why It Matters

Entities named for imam include The Imam[31], a television series[32].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  20. [21] ↑ . lemonde.fr. lemonde.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008. Retrieved . data.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 25d ago · Putnik · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → imamas
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'am', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'az', 'ba', 'bcl', 'bdr', 'be', 'be_x_old'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: imamas"
  2. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Ömer Erzeren
    Instance of → Islamic religious occupation, title of honor, male occupation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q297467, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  3. 18w ago · GrandEscogriffe · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → Islamic religious occupation, title of honor, male occupation
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: religious figure"
  4. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0440342-imamove
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0440342-imamove, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  5. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 136878
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007541854005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  6. 23w ago · Breogan2008 · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Epguides id → 136878
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Epguides id: 136878"
  7. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 25691, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  8. 26w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Described by source → Nordisk familjebok, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +3
    Subclass of → religious leader, Islamic cleric
    Topic's main category → Category:Imams
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Isco-08 occupation class: 2636, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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