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Major themes of theological controversies in Islam have included predestination and free will, the nature of the Quran, the nature of the divine attributes, apparent and esoteric meaning of scripture, and the role of dialectical reasoning in the Islamic doctrine.
ʿAbd (عبد) (for male) ʾAmah (أمة) (for female) Servant or worshipper. Muslims consider themselves servants and worshippers of God as per Islam.Common Muslim names such as Abdullah (Servant of God), Abdul-Malik (Servant of the King), Abdur-Rahmān (Slave of the Most Beneficent), Abdus-Salām (Slave of [the originator of] Peace), Abdur-Rahîm (Slave of the Most Merciful), all refer to ...
A Pew Center study in 2016 found that Muslims have the highest number of adherents under the age of 15 (34% of the total Muslim population) of any major religion, while only 7% are aged 60+ (the smallest percentage of any major religion). According to the same study, Muslims have the highest fertility rates (3.1) of any major religious group. [114]
Islam [a] is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran, believing in Allah (lit. ' The God '), [9] and the teachings of Muhammad, [10] the religion's founder. . 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 Chr
It is a synonym for ummat al-Islām (أمّةْ الإِسْلَامُ, lit. 'the Islamic nation'); it is commonly used to mean the collective community of Muslim people. [3] In the Quran, the ummah typically refers to a single group that shares a common religious beliefs, specifically those that are the objects of a divine plan of salvation.
Kurdistan Islamic Group (Iraq) Islamic Labour Movement in Iraq (Iraq) Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman (Iraq) Islamic Centrist Party (Jordan) National Patriotic Party (Kazakhstan) United Malays National Organisation (Malaysia) Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (Pakistan) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan) Lakas–CMD (Philippines) Moro Islamic ...
The dictionary was inspired in part by the earlier dictionary Kitab al-Ayn of al-Farahidi. [5] Tahdhib al-Lugha [n 4] (Arabic: تهذيب اللغة) Abu Manshur al-Azhari al-Harawi (Arabic: أبو منصور الأزهري الهروي) (b. 895 - d. 981) 10th century The dictionary is important as a source of the Lisan al-Arab. [6]
Sunni Islam is the region’s main religion, and the Maliki Madhhab is the main Islamic school of thought followed by North Africans. [25] The vast majority of North Africans identify as Arabs or Arab Muslims.