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Islam (/ ˈ ɪ z l ɑː m, ˈ ɪ z l æ m / IZ-la(h)m; [7] Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام , 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.
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 (Allāh). It is organized in 114 chapters (surah, pl. suwer) which consist of individual verses (āyah).
Islam ( / ˈɪzlɑːm, ˈɪzlæm / IZ-la (h)m; 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. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, coming from an Arabic word ...
Shaykh al-Islām (Arabic: شيخ الإسلام, romanized: Šayḫ al-Islām; Persian: شِیخُالاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām; Urdu: شِیخُالاسلام, Sheikh-ul-Islām; Ottoman Turkish: شیخ الاسلام, Turkish: Şeyhülislam [1]) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences.
Islam is based on the belief in oneness and uniqueness of the God (tawhid), and belief in an afterlife (akhirah) with the Last Judgment —wherein the righteous will be rewarded in paradise (jannah) and the unrighteous will be punished in hell (jahannam). The Five Pillars —considered obligatory acts of worship—comprise the Islamic oath and ...
Islam first reached Maritime Southeast Asia through traders from Mecca in the 7th century, [ 137 ] particularly via the western part of what is now Indonesia. Arab traders from Yemen already had a presence in Asia through trading and travelling by sea, serving as intermediary traders to and from Europe and Africa.
In Shia Islam, the shahada also has a third part, a phrase concerning Ali, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Rashid caliph of Sunni Islam: وعليٌ وليُّ الله (wa ʿalīyyun walīyyu-llāh), which translates to "Ali is the wali of God". [93] In Quranist Islam, the shahada is the testimony that there is no god but Allah (la ilaha ...
The lands and cities of the Dar al-Islam in the 10th century, according to the geographer al-Muqaddasi. Early Islamic legal theory divided the world into two divisions: "abode of Islam" and "abode of war". The first, called dar al-Islam, sometimes Pax Islamica, consisted of Muslims and non-Muslims living under Islamic sovereignty. [9]