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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

    Person

    Direct 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.

    1. FactThe Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter
    2. strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    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 normal

      Two 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 normal

      125 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 normal

      Above normal = better

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Constitution of MedinaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 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.

  1. ActorMuhammad
  2. contributed toFactThe Constitution of Medina binds emigrants, helpers, and some Jewish clans as a received charter
  3. strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
  4. 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

https://factrail.ai/facts/muh-constitution-medina-622

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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