Islam Faithscore: 58/100

Overview

Islam scores 58 out of 100 in Faithscore's evidence-based evaluation, indicating weak evidentiary support with significant gaps in historical, textual, or predictive verification.

Faithscore applies court-like evidentiary standards across six weighted criteria. Every system is scored against the same rubric — religious or philosophical — to surface objective comparisons. Read the full methodology.

The six weighted criteria

• Textual fidelity — preservation, manuscript count, and accuracy of source documents.
• Historical verification — independent corroboration, hostile-witness testimony, archaeological confirmation.
• Scientific testability — falsifiable claims, observable evidence, repeatable predictions.
• Internal consistency — logical coherence of doctrine and absence of contradiction.
• Prophetic accuracy — ratio of fulfilled to unfulfilled predictions, dated against earliest manuscripts.
• Explanatory power — how well the system accounts for the breadth of human experience.

Denominations of Islam

• Sunni Islam — Faithscore 58/100
• Hanafi Sunni — Faithscore 57/100
• Shafi'i Sunni — Faithscore 57/100
• Maliki Sunni — Faithscore 56/100
• Hanbali Sunni — Faithscore 56/100
• Salafi Islam — Faithscore 56/100
• Ibadi Islam — Faithscore 55/100
• Shia Islam — Faithscore 54/100
• Twelver Shia — Faithscore 54/100
• Zaidi Shia — Faithscore 53/100
• Ismaili Shia — Faithscore 52/100
• Sufi Islam — Faithscore 52/100
• Naqshbandi Sufi — Faithscore 51/100
• Alawite — Faithscore 50/100
• Qadiriyya Sufi — Faithscore 50/100
• Chishti Sufi — Faithscore 49/100
• Ahmadiyya — Faithscore 45/100
• Nation of Islam — Faithscore 35/100

Compare Islam

• Islam vs Christianity
• Islam vs Hinduism
• Islam vs Secularism
• Islam vs Evolution/Naturalism
• Islam vs Agnosticism
• Islam vs Buddhism

See also

• Faithscore methodology
• Evidence library
• All 313 religions

Scholarly sources for Islam

The Faithscore analysis of Islam draws on the following peer-reviewed scholarship, primary research institutions, and academic publishers.