Table of Contents
- Islamic philosophy
- The Eastern philosophers
- The new wisdom: synthesis of philosophy and mysticism
- Islamic philosophy
For Students
Islam
religion
- Key People:
- Muhammad
- Ibn Taymiyyah
- Muḥammad I Askia
- Aurangzeb
- Maḥmūd Ghāzān
- Related Topics:
- Islamic arts
- Islamic world
- Sufism
- sharia
- Shiʿi
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Islam, major world religion promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century ce. The Arabic term islām, literally “surrender,” illuminates the fundamental religious idea of Islam—that the believer (called a Muslim, from the active particle of islām) accepts surrender to the will of Allah (in Arabic, Allāh: God). Allah is viewed as the sole God—creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world. The will of Allah, to which human beings must submit, is made known through the sacred scriptures, the Qurʾān (often spelled Koran in English), which Allah revealed to his messenger, Muhammad. In Islam Muhammad is considered ...(100 of 27715 words)