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With about 1.8 billion followers (2015), almost a quarter of earth's population, [110] Islam is the second-largest and the fastest-growing religion in the world, [111] primarily due to the young age and high fertility rate of Muslims, [112] with Muslims having a rate of 3.1 compared to the world average of 2.5.
Islam [a] is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, [9] and the teachings of Muhammad. [10] Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number 1.9 billion worldwide as of 2020 and are the world's second-largest religious population after Christians.
Mark D. Siljander and John David Mann, A Deadly Misunderstanding: a Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide, New York: Harper One, 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-143828-8. Robert Spencer, Not Peace But a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam. Catholic Answers. March 25, 2013. ISBN 978-1938983283.
Mumin denotes a person who has complete submission to the will of God and has faith firmly established in his heart, i.e. a "faithful Muslim". [1] Also, it is used as a name and one of the names of God. [1] The opposite term of iman (faith) is kufr (disbelief), and the opposite of mumin is kafir (disbeliever). [2] [3] [4] The Quran states: O ...
The term has been largely superseded by Muslim (formerly transliterated as Moslem) or Islamic.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.
Arab Muslims (Arabic: ﺍﻟْمُسْلِمون ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ, romanized: al-Muslimūn al-ʿArab) are the Arabs who adhere to Islam. They are the largest subdivision of the Arab people and the largest ethnic group among Muslims globally, [ 2 ] followed by Bengalis [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Punjabis . [ 6 ]
Our names and nationalities, faces and faith brand us with the stain of collective guilt for crimes that we did not commit, writes Khaled A. Beydoun on the Arab and Muslim communities in the US.
Muslim rulers in history compelled the payment of a special tax from dhimmi, non-Muslims living in a Muslim state. The Muslim jurists required adult, free, sane males among the dhimmi community to pay the jizya , while exempting non-Muslim women, children, elders, handicapped, the ill, the insane, monks, hermits, slaves and musta'mins—non ...