Academic Ancestry

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Alqama ibn Qays

Founder of the Islamic school of Kufa (died c.682)0591 to 0681

Wikidata names Abdullah ibn Masud as doctoral advisor, names Abdullah ibn Masud as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata and Wikipedia.

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Alqama ibn Qays, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ibn Sirin

    born 653
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ibrahim al-Nakhai

    born 670

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.