The Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter
In 622 CE, as later recensions and encyclopaedias date it, a Constitution of Medina bound emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans with Muhammad as referee. Muhammad's documented role is: He is named as community referee in the received charter text. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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In 622 CE, as later recensions and encyclopaedias date it, a Constitution of Medina bound emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans with Muhammad as referee. Muhammad's documented role is: He is named as community referee in the received charter text. Clans acceded; later recensions vary.
Context
Yathrib politics were clan politics. Jewish tribes appear as parties in the received text. Sharing authorship with those clans is required. Later expulsion rows are not this charter. The setting of The Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter is the public file around 0622-09-01. Driver democratic-resilience is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Why it matters
Improving path from The Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter on 0622-09-01. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Shared responsibility is part of The Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter. Naming Muhammad does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0622-09-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Muhammad
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.6 · verified
He is named as community referee in the received charter text. Clans acceded; later recensions vary.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 September 622 · verified
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.39 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Constitution of MedinaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks — Islamic history excerptsFordham University · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Constitution of Medina at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Constitution-of-Medina (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks — Islamic political documents neighbourhood at https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/islam/islamsbook.asp (opens in a new tab) (Fordham University). Official carrier: Britannica — Constitution of Medina (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Constitution-of-Medina (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks — Islamic political documents neighbourhood (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/islam/islamsbook.asp (opens in a new tab); Fordham University).
Established: a sourced public record of The Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter under 0622-09-01 for Muhammad. Established: a sourced public record of The Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter under 0622-09-01.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of The Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter are separate paths.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorMuhammad
- contributed toFactThe Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). The Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/muh-constitution-medina-622
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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