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Islam. Islam ( / ˈɪzlɑːm, ˈɪzlæm / IZ-la (h)m; [ 7] Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام, romanized : al-Islām, IPA: [alʔɪsˈlaːm], lit. 'submission [to the will of God]') is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
With about 1.8 billion followers (2015), almost a quarter of earth's population, [109] Islam is the second-largest and the fastest-growing religion in the world, [110] primarily due to the young age and high fertility rate of Muslims, [111] with Muslims having a rate of (3.1) compared to the world average of (2.5).
Most historians [5] believe that Islam originated with Muhammad's mission in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE, [6] [7] although Muslims regard this time as a return to the original faith passed down by the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, with the submission (Islām) to the ...
Twelver Shia Islam has five Usul al-Din and ten Furu al-Din, i.e., the Shia Islamic beliefs and practices. The Twelver Shia Islam Usul al-Din, equivalent to a Shia Five Pillars, are all beliefs considered foundational to Islam, and thus classified a bit differently from those listed above. [33] They are:
Quranism [128] or Quraniyya (Arabic: القرآنية; al-Qur'āniyya) is a Protestant [129] [clarification needed] branch of Islam. It holds the belief that Islamic guidance and law should only be based on the Quran, thus opposing the religious authority and authenticity of the hadith literature.
Quran at English Wikisource. The Quran, [ c] also romanized Qur'an or Koran, [ d] is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ( Allah ). It is organized in 114 chapters ( surah, pl. suwer) which consist of individual verses ( ayat ). Besides its religious significance, it is widely regarded ...
Islamic culture or Muslim culture refers to the historic cultural practices that developed among the various peoples living in the Muslim world.These practices, while not always religious in nature, are generally influenced by aspects of Islam, particularly due to the religion serving as an effective conduit for the inter-mingling of people from different ethnic/national backgrounds in a way ...
The religion of Islam originated in Mecca in 610 CE. Muslims believe this is when Muhammad received his first revelation. By the time of his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam. Muslim rule expanded outside Arabia under the Rashidun Caliphate and the subsequent Umayyad Caliphate ruled from the Iberian Peninsula to the ...