Islamic
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May 19, 2022
Islam (Arabic الإسلام al-islām, pronunciation of al-Islam✩) is an abrahamic, monotheistic religion derived from the common dagger of the ancient Arab polytheism, the Jewish and Christian faiths, who adhered to the Qur’an as the word of Allah (God) and Muhammad as the last and chief prophet. , is considered the “seal of the prophets”. Believers in this world religion are called Muslims or Muslims. Muslims consider Islam to be the first, the only true religion that has existed spiritually since the birth of the world. It is one of the great world religions of the Earth. It is based on the revelations of the word of God (Allah in Arabic) given to his followers in Hijaza at the end of the first third of the 7th century by Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, known as the Prophet Muhammad, and collected by him in the Koran two decades after his death. . After Christianity, with 1.8 billion followers (a quarter of the world’s population), it is the second largest religion in the world. Its main areas of distribution are North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Malaysia, and the most populous Muslim country, Indonesia. , religion, morality, law and obedience to the rule of law (sharia) governing everyday life. Until modern times, all this was accompanied by the general use of Arabic as a mediating language in religious and scientific life. Under the auspices of Islam, a number of flourishing and advanced state formations emerged in the Middle Ages and the dawn of the New Age, including the Umayyad, Abbasida, the Caliphate of Córdoba and Fatimida, and the Ajyibida, Mameluk, Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid Empires. . The centers of Islamic civilization, such as Cairo, Baghdad, Damascus, Cordoba, or Istanbul in their heyday, were among the largest cities in the world and pioneers of modern and organized metropolitan culture.