ISLAM

BASIC INFORMATION

• Ka'ba is a temple in Saudi Arabia
• Mohammed was an orphan at the age of 6, and was married at 25
• The Quran is the holy book of the Islamic religion
• Other holy sources include: the Hadith and the Sufi texts
• Jihad is the holy war

BASIC INFORMATION CONT.

• Islam : Submission to the will of God and obedience to His law
• Developed in Middle East in the 7th century C.E, teachings of Prophet Muhammad
• Pre-Muhammad, multi gods/goddesses were worshipped
• Becoming a Muslim : reciting the Shahada. Anyone can become a Muslim.
• Prayers, Fasting, Pilgrimage, Charity, Purification, and animal sacra five.

COMPARED TO OTHER RELIGONS

• That they are founded in different year
• They have different worship days
• That they have different original language
• They have different sacred text

GEOGRAPHY OF THE MUSLIM WORLD

• 23% of the worlds population is muslim
• Somalia has the largest muslim population
• Afghanistan has the highest percentage of Muslims
• 2,600,000 people or .8% of the United States are muslim
• Africa has the greatest number of countries with muslim majority

GEOGRAPHY OF THE MUSLIM WORLD CONTINUED

• The spread of Islam affected the world by
• Instructing man to use his powers of intelligence
• And observation and preserved elaborated and
• Passed the scientific tradition on