Gold Ark pulls biographical data from classical Islamic sources — al-Dhahabi's Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Ibn Sa'd's Tabaqat, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's Tarikh Baghdad, and others — cross-referenced against Wikipedia and Wikidata for dates, locations, and GPS coordinates.

Each figure's record is built in layers. First, a base profile: name, birth and death dates (both CE and Hijri), primary city, and type (scholar, ruler, poet, scientist, companion, prophet). Then relational data: who taught them, who they taught, family connections. Then content: books they authored, events they were involved in, and Quranic references where applicable.

Teacher-student chains are reconstructed from these biographical dictionaries. When you see a line connecting two figures, it means a documented teaching relationship exists in at least one classical source. These chains are what power the Silsila view and the teacher/student lists on each profile.

Map coordinates come from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps, matched to the city most associated with each figure's career. Journey routes — available for 88 figures so far — are researched individually, with each stop sourced and dated.

Book metadata is compiled from Wikidata and Archive.org. Where a free, legal English translation exists online, it is linked directly. Event descriptions are AI-generated, then verified against primary sources. Quranic references are manually checked — only events and figures actually mentioned in the Quran are tagged.

Dates for early figures are often approximate. Where exact years are unknown, estimates from the scholarly consensus are used and marked with ≈. Some figures have conflicting dates across sources — we follow the most widely accepted dating and note discrepancies where possible.

The database currently holds 1,940 figures, 403 events, and 989 books. It grows as new records are researched and verified. All AI-assisted content is labelled. Gold Ark is an educational tool — always cross-reference with primary sources for scholarly work.

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