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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 and are the world's second-largest religious population after Christians.
The service was one of the first online fatwa services, if not the first. [2] The launching of IslamQA.info in 1996 by Muhammad Saalih Al-Munajjid marked the beginning of an attempt to answer questions according to the Sunni interpretation of the Quran and Hadith. [2]
Today, the concept of an aniconic Islam coexists with a daily life for Muslims awash with images. TV stations and newspapers (which do present still and moving representations of living beings) have an exceptional impact on public opinion, sometimes, as in the case of Al Jazeera , with a global reach, beyond the Arabic speaking and Muslim audience.
A fifteenth-century copy of the Arabic text. The Masāʾil was probably written in the tenth century. [14] Although ʿAbdallāh was a historical Jewish convert to Islam from the time of Muḥammad, the Masāʾil is an apocryphal work, a late development of the ʿAbdallāh legend, "amplified dramatically" and not an authentic record of actual discussions. [15]
Various Islamic scholars contributed to the development of geography and cartography, with the most notable including Al-Khwārizmī, Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (founder of the "Balkhi school"), Al-Masudi, Abu Rayhan Biruni and Muhammad al-Idrisi. Islamic geography was patronized by the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad.
Naskh first appeared within the first century of the Islamic calendar. [21] Naskh translates to "copying", as it became the standard for transcribing books and manuscripts. [22] The script is the most ubiquitous among other styles, used in the Qur'an, official decrees, and private correspondence. [23] It became the basis of modern Arabic print.
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Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (Arabic: الرحيق المختوم; transl. The Sealed Nectar [1]) seerah book (biography of Prophet Muhammad) by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri. [2] [3] It was awarded first prize by the Muslim World League in a worldwide competition of biographies of Prophet Muhammad held in Mecca in 1979.