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The term has been largely superseded by Muslim (formerly transliterated as Moslem) or Islamic. Mohammedan was commonly used in European literature until at least the mid-1960s. [9] Muslim is more commonly used today, and the term Mohammedan is widely considered archaic or in some cases even offensive. [10] The term remains in limited use.
Islam [a] is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, [9] the religion's founder. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number 1.9 billion worldwide and are the world's second-largest religious population after Christians.
a Muslim is a person who has dedicated his worship exclusively to God, for just as we say in Arabic that something is ‘salima’ to a person, meaning that it became solely his own, so in the same way ‘Islām’ means making one's religion and faith God's alone.
The first day of the first Islamic year is 1 Muḥarram 1 (AH) and corresponds to 16 July 622 . ʾAḥad (أحد) literally "one." Islamically, ahad means One Alone, unique, none like God. Al-Ahad is one of the names of God. ʾAḥkām (أحكام) These are rulings and orders of the Qu'ran and Sunnah. A single ruling is called a Ḥukm.
Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number 1.9 billion worldwide and are the world's second-largest religious population after Christians. Muslims believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed many times through earlier prophets and messengers , including Adam , Noah ...
Islam is the second largest Abrahamic religion, as well as the fastest-growing Abrahamic religion in recent decades. [156] [157] It has about 1.9 billion adherents, called Muslims, constituting about 24.1% of the world's population. The third largest Abrahamic religion is Judaism with about 14.1 million adherents, called Jews. [156]
Pontic Greek (called Ρωμαίικα/Roméika in the Pontus, not Ποντιακά/Pontiaká as it is in Greece), is spoken by large communities of Pontic Greek Muslim origin, spread out near the southern Black Sea coast. Pontian Greek Muslims are found within Trabzon province in the following areas: [23] [24]
Adherents of one religion sometimes think of other religions as superstition. [ 236 ] [ 237 ] Some atheists , deists , and skeptics regard religious belief as superstition. The Roman Catholic Church considers superstition to be sinful in the sense that it denotes a lack of trust in the divine providence of God and, as such, is a violation of ...