# Islam
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{{Short description|Abrahamic monotheistic religion}}
{{About|the religion||Islam (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox religion
| native_name = {{lang|ar|{{Script|Arab|الإسلام}}}}
{{transliteration|ar|al-Islām}}
| image = The Kaaba during Hajj - edited.jpg
| imagewidth = 275px
| caption = The [Kaaba](/source/Kaaba) at [Masjid al-Haram](/source/Masjid_al-Haram) in [Mecca](/source/Mecca), [Saudi Arabia](/source/Saudi_Arabia), the [holiest Islamic site](/source/Holiest_sites_in_Islam)
| type =
| main_classification = [Abrahamic](/source/Abrahamic_religions)
| scripture = {{Plainlist|
* [Quran](/source/Quran)
* Traditions: [Hadith](/source/Hadith)[{{cite web |title=The saheeh Sunnah is wahy (Revelation) from Allah |url=https://islamqa.info/en/answers/77243/the-saheeh-sunnah-is-wahy-(revelation)-from-allah |website=islamqa.info |access-date=15 June 2025}}]
* Exegesis: [Tafsir](/source/Tafsir)[Mir, Mustansir. (1995). "Tafsīr". In John L. Esposito. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.]
}}
| theology = [Monotheistic](/source/Tawhid)
| area = {{Plainlist|[West Asia](/source/West_Asia), [Central Asia](/source/Central_Asia), [South Asia](/source/South_Asia), [Southeast Asia](/source/Southeast_Asia), [North Africa](/source/North_Africa), [East Africa](/source/East_Africa), [West Africa](/source/West_Africa), [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus), [Balkans](/source/Balkans), [Guianas](/source/Guianas)[{{Cite web |last=Center |first=Pew Research |date=2013-04-30 |title=The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |publisher=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project |archive-date=25 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231025124036/https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/ |url-status=live}}][{{cite web | url=https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/the_spread_of_islam_in_west_africa_containment_mixing_and_reform_from_the_eighth_to_the_twentieth_century#:~:text=While%20the%20motivations%20of%20early,intensified%20the%20Trans%2DSaharan%20trade | title=The Spread of Islam in West Africa: Containment, Mixing, and Reform from }}]}}
| language = [Quranic Arabic](/source/Classical_Arabic)
| territory = [Islamic world](/source/Islamic_world)
| founder = [Muhammad](/source/Muhammad)[{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Welch |first1=Alford T. |last2=Moussalli |first2=Ahmad S. |last3=Newby |first3=Gordon D. |date=2009 |entry=Muḥammad |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |editor-first=John L. |editor-last=Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |entry-url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0550 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211050118/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0550 |archive-date=11 February 2017 }}]
| founded_date = {{circa|610 CE}}
| founded_place = [Jabal al-Nour](/source/Jabal_al-Nour), [Mecca](/source/Mecca), [Hejaz](/source/Hejaz), [Arabian Peninsula](/source/Arabian_Peninsula)
| number_of_followers = {{est.}} 2 billion[{{cite book |title=The Oxford Handbook of American Islam |first=Yvonne |last=Yazbeck Haddad |year=2014 |isbn=9780199862634 |page=142|publisher=Oxford University Press}}]
* [Baháʼí Faith](/source/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith)[{{Cite book |last=Van der Vyer |first=J. D. |year=1996 |title=Religious human rights in global perspective: religious perspectives |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff |isbn=90-411-0176-4 |page=449 |url=https://archive.org/details/religioushumanri0000unse |url-access=registration}}]
}}
}}
{{Islam|expanded=}}
{{Islam and iman}}
'''Islam'''{{efn|{{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɪ|z|l|ɑː|m|,_|ˈ|ɪ|z|l|æ|m}} {{respell|IZ|la(h)m}};[{{cite Cambridge Dictionaries |Islam}}] {{langx|ar|{{Script|Arab|الإسلام|al-Islām}}|al-Islām}}, {{IPA|ar|alʔisˈlaːm|IPA}}, {{lit|submission [to the [will of God](/source/will_of_God)]}}}} is an [Abrahamic](/source/Abrahamic_religions) [monotheistic](/source/monotheistic) religion based on the [Quran](/source/Quran) and the [teachings](/source/Sunnah) of [Muhammad](/source/Muhammad). The religion's adherents, called [Muslims](/source/Muslims), are estimated to number [2 billion worldwide](/source/Islam_by_country) and are the world's [second-largest religious population](/source/Major_religious_groups) after [Christians](/source/Christianity).
[[File:FirstSurahKoran.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[Surah](/source/Surah) [al Fatiha (''The Opener'')](/source/Al-Fatiha), from the [Quran](/source/Quran).]]
Muslims believe that there is a [primordial faith](/source/Fitra) that was revealed many times through earlier [prophets and messengers](/source/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam), including [Adam](/source/Adam_in_Islam), [Noah](/source/Noah_in_Islam), [Abraham](/source/Abraham_in_Islam), [Moses](/source/Moses_in_Islam), and [Jesus](/source/Jesus_in_Islam), and they believe that Islam is the universal and complete version of this [faith](/source/faith). Muslims consider [the Quran](/source/Quran) to be the verbatim word of [God](/source/God_in_Islam) and the unaltered, final [revelation](/source/revelation). Alongside the Quran, Muslims also believe in previous [revelation](/source/Islamic_holy_books)s, such as the [''Tawrat''](/source/Torah_in_Islam) ([Torah](/source/Torah)), the ''[Zabur](/source/Zabur)'' ([Psalms](/source/Psalms)), and the [''Injil''](/source/Gospel_in_Islam) ([Gospel](/source/Gospel)). They believe that [Muhammad](/source/Muhammad_in_Islam) is the main and [final](/source/Last_prophet) of [God's prophets](/source/Seal_of_the_Prophets), through whom the religion was completed, and after whom no new prophet or divine law will come. The teachings and normative examples of Muhammad, called the [Sunnah](/source/Sunnah), documented in accounts called [hadith](/source/hadith), provide a constitutional model for Muslims. Islam is based on the belief in the oneness and uniqueness of God ({{Transliteration|ar|[tawhid](/source/tawhid)}}), and belief in an [afterlife](/source/afterlife) ({{Transliteration|ar|[akhirah](/source/akhirah)}}) with the [Last Judgment](/source/Judgement_Day_in_Islam)—wherein the righteous will be rewarded in paradise ({{Transliteration|ar|[jannah](/source/jannah)}}) and the unrighteous will be punished in hell ({{Transliteration|ar|[jahannam](/source/jahannam)}}). The [Five Pillars](/source/Five_Pillars_of_Islam), considered [obligatory](/source/Fard) acts of worship, are the Islamic oath and creed ({{Transliteration|ar|[shahada](/source/shahada)}}), daily prayers ({{Transliteration|ar|[salah](/source/salah)}}), almsgiving ({{Transliteration|ar|[zakat](/source/zakat)}}), fasting ({{Transliteration|ar|[sawm](/source/sawm)}}) in the month of [Ramadan](/source/Ramadan), and a [pilgrimage](/source/pilgrimage) ({{Transliteration|ar|[hajj](/source/hajj)}}) to [Mecca](/source/Mecca). Islamic law, {{Transliteration|ar|[sharia](/source/sharia)}}, touches on virtually every aspect of life, from [banking and finance](/source/Islamic_banking_and_finance) and [welfare](/source/Zakat) to [men's roles](/source/Gender_roles_in_Islam) and [women's roles](/source/Women_in_Islam) and the [environment](/source/Islamic_ethics). The two main [religious festivals](/source/Islamic_holidays) are [Eid al-Fitr](/source/Eid_al-Fitr) and [Eid al-Adha](/source/Eid_al-Adha). The three [holiest sites in Islam](/source/holiest_sites_in_Islam) are [Masjid al-Haram](/source/Masjid_al-Haram) in Mecca, [Prophet's Mosque](/source/Prophet's_Mosque) in [Medina](/source/Medina), and [al-Aqsa Mosque](/source/al-Aqsa_Mosque) in [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem).
The religion of Islam originated in Mecca c. 610 CE. Muslims believe this is when [Muhammad received his first revelation](/source/Muhammad's_first_revelation). By the time of his death, most of the [Arabian Peninsula](/source/Arabian_Peninsula) had [converted to Islam](/source/Conversion_to_Islam). Muslim rule expanded outside Arabia under the [Rashidun Caliphate](/source/Rashidun_Caliphate). The two main [Islamic branches](/source/Islamic_schools_and_branches) are [Sunni Islam](/source/Sunni_Islam) (87–90%) and [Shia Islam](/source/Shia_Islam) (10–13%).{{sfnp|Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life|2009|p=1|ps=. "Of the total Muslim population, 10–13% are Shia Muslims and 87–90% are Sunni Muslims."}} While the [Shia–Sunni divide](/source/Shia%E2%80%93Sunni_divide) initially arose from disagreements over the [succession to Muhammad](/source/succession_to_Muhammad), they grew to cover a broader dimension, both [theologically](/source/Schools_of_Islamic_theology) and [juridically](/source/Fiqh). The Sunni canonical hadith collection consists of [the six books](/source/Kutub_al-Sittah), while the Shia canonical hadith collection consists of [the four books](/source/The_Four_Books). Muslims make up a majority of the population in 53 countries.[{{cite web |date=June 9, 2025 |title=How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020. Muslims grew fastest; Christians lagged behind global population increase |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/06/09/how-the-global-religious-landscape-changed-from-2010-to-2020/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |publisher=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center)}}
*{{cite web |author1=Conrad Hackett |author2=Marcin Stonawski |author3=Yunping Tong |author4=Stephanie Kramer |author5=Anne Shi |author6=Dalia Fahmy |date=2025-06-09 |title=How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020 |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/06/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_report.pdf |access-date=2025-06-10 |publisher=Pew Research Center}}] Approximately 12% of the world's Muslims live [in Indonesia](/source/Islam_in_Indonesia), the most populous Muslim-majority country; {{#expr: 100 * 480/1570 round 0}}% live [in South Asia](/source/Islam_in_South_Asia); 20% live [in the Middle East–North Africa](/source/MENA); and 15% live [in sub-Saharan Africa](/source/Religion_in_Sub-Saharan_Africa). Muslim communities are also present [in the Americas](/source/Islam_in_the_Americas), [China](/source/Islam_in_China), and [Europe](/source/Islam_in_Europe). Muslims are the [world's fastest-growing](/source/Muslim_population_growth) major religious group, according to [Pew Research](/source/Pew_Research_Center). This is primarily due to a higher [fertility rate](/source/fertility_rate) and younger age structure compared to other major religions.
== Etymology{{anchor|Etymology}} ==
{{See also|Muslims#Etymology}}
In Arabic, ''Islam'' ({{langx|ar|إسلام|lit=submission [to God]}})[{{cite web |title=Definition of Islam {{!}} Dictionary.com |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/islam |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=www.dictionary.com |language=en |archive-date=9 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509110220/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/islam |url-status=live }}][{{Cite book |last=Haywood |first=John |title=Historical Atlas of the Medieval World (AD 600 - 1492) |publisher=Barnes & Noble, Inc. |year=2002 |isbn=0-7607-1975-6 |edition=1st |location=Spain |pages=3.13 |language=en}}] is the verbal noun of Form IV originating from the verb {{lang|ar|سلم}} ({{transliteration|ar|salama}}), from the [triliteral root](/source/Semitic_root) {{lang|ar|س-ل-م}} ({{transliteration|ar|[S-L-M](/source/%C5%A0-L-M)}}), which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of submission, safeness, and peace.[{{cite book |last=Lane |first=Edward William |author-link=Edward William Lane |title=An Arabic-English Lexicon |volume=4 |chapter=Siin |url=http://www.studyquran.co.uk/20_SIIN.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907230044/http://www.studyquran.co.uk/20_SIIN.htm |archive-date=2011-09-07 |via=[StudyQuran](/source/The_Study_Quran) |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}] In a religious context, it refers to the total surrender to the will of [God](/source/God).[{{Cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=Barnard |last2=Churchill |first2=Buntzie Ellis |url=https://archive.org/details/islamreligionpeo00lewi |title=Islam: The Religion and The People |publisher=Wharton School Publishing |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-13-223085-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/islamreligionpeo00lewi/page/8 8]}}] A ''[Muslim](/source/Muslims)'' ({{lang|ar|مُسْلِم}}), the word for a follower of Islam,[{{cite dictionary |title=Muslim |url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/muslim |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913192608/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/muslim |archive-date=2019-09-13 |dictionary=[Lexico](/source/Lexico) |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |date=2020 |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en-GB}}] is the [active participle](/source/Participle) of the same verb form, and means "submitter (to God)" or "one who surrenders (to God)". However, [Quranic studies](/source/Quranic_studies) scholar [Mohsen Goudarzi](/source/Mohsen_Goudarzi) has argued that in the Quran the word ''[dīn](/source/d%C4%ABn)'' means "[worship](/source/worship)", the ''islām'' means "[monotheism](/source/monotheism)" and the ''muslim'' means "monotheist".[{{Cite journal |last=Goudarzi |first=Mohsen |date=2023-08-01 |title=Worship (dīn), Monotheism (islām), and the Qurʾān's Cultic Decalogue |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jiqsa-2023-0006/html |journal=Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=30–71 |doi=10.1515/jiqsa-2023-0006 |issn=2474-8420|url-access=subscription }}] In the [Hadith of Gabriel](/source/Hadith_of_Gabriel), ''Islam'' is presented as one part of a triad that also includes {{transliteration|ar|[imān](/source/Iman_(Islam))}} (faith), and {{transliteration|ar|[ihsān](/source/Ihsan)}} (excellence).{{sfnp|Esposito|2000|pp=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordhistoryofi00john/page/76 76–77]}}[{{Cite book |last=Mahmutćehajić |first=Rusmir |url=https://archive.org/details/mosqueheartsubmi00mahm |title=The mosque: the heart of submission |publisher=[Fordham University Press](/source/Fordham_University_Press) |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-8232-2584-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/mosqueheartsubmi00mahm/page/n104 84] |url-access=registration}}]
Islam itself was historically called [''Mohammedanism''](/source/Mohammedan) in the [English-speaking world](/source/English-speaking_world). This term has fallen out of use and is sometimes said to be [offensive](/source/Religious_offence), as it suggests that a human being, rather than God, is central to Muslims' religion.[{{Cite book| publisher = Oxford University Press| last = Gibb| first = Sir Hamilton| title = Mohammedanism: an historical survey|isbn=9780195002454| year = 1969| page=1 | quote=Modern Muslims dislike the terms Mohammedan and Mohammedanism, which seem to them to carry the implication of worship of Mohammed, as Christian and Christianity imply the worship of Christ.}}]
== Articles of faith ==
{{Main|Aqidah|Iman (Islam)|l2 = Iman}}
The Islamic [creed](/source/creed) (''[aqidah](/source/aqidah)'') requires belief in [six articles](/source/Iman_(Islam)): God, angels, revelation, prophets, the [Day of Resurrection](/source/Day_of_Resurrection), and the divine predestination.[{{Cite book|title=Sourcebook of the World's Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and Spirituality|publisher=New World Library|pages=68–9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbSPOoQfu0IC&pg=PA68|editor-first=Joel|editor-last=Beversluis|year=2011|isbn=9781577313328|access-date=15 January 2023|archive-date=28 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228022948/https://books.google.com/books?id=dbSPOoQfu0IC&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}]
=== God ===
[[File:Istanbul,_Hagia_Sophia,_Allah.jpg|thumb|Calligraphy showing the word [Allah](/source/Allah) in Arabic in [Hagia Sophia](/source/Hagia_Sophia), [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul), [Turkey](/source/Turkey)]]
{{Main|God in Islam}}
The central concept of Islam is ''[tawḥīd](/source/Tawhid)'' ({{langx|ar|توحيد|link=no}}), the oneness of God. It is usually thought of as a ''precise [monotheism](/source/monotheism)'', but is also [panentheistic](/source/panentheism) in Islamic mystical teachings.[{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/tawhid |title=Tawhid |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=17 September 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=7 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107041300/https://www.britannica.com/topic/tawhid |url-status=live }}][{{harvc |last=Gimaret|first=D.|year=2012|c=Tawḥīd |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)}} {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_7454}}] God is seen as incomparable and without multiplicity of persons such as in the [Christian Trinity](/source/Christian_Trinity), and associating multiplicity to God or attributing God's attributes to others is seen as [idolatory](/source/idolatory), called [''shirk''](/source/Shirk_(Islam)). Thus, Muslims are not [iconodule](/source/iconodule)s and do not attribute forms to God. God is instead described and referred to by several [names or attributes](/source/Names_of_God_in_Islam), the most common being ''Ar-Rahmān'' ({{lang|ar|الرحمان}}) meaning "The Entirely Merciful", and ''Ar-Rahīm'' ({{lang|ar|الرحيم}}) meaning "The Especially Merciful" which are invoked at the beginning of most chapters of the Quran.[{{Cite book |last1=Ali |first1=Kecia |title=Islam : the key concepts |date=2008 |publisher=[Routledge](/source/Routledge) |last2=Leaman |first2=Oliver |isbn=978-0-415-39638-7 |location=London |oclc=123136939}}]{{sfnp|Campo|2009|p=34|loc="Allah"}}
Islam teaches that the creation of everything in the [universe](/source/universe) was brought into being by God's command as expressed by the wording, "[Be, and it is](/source/Be%2C_and_it_is),"[{{qref|2|117|b=yl}}][{{cite encyclopedia |last=Schimmel |first=Annemarie |author-link=Annemarie Schimmel |title=Islam |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Islam |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=17 September 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=4 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504201633/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/295507/Islam |url-status=live }}] and that the [purpose of existence](/source/Purpose_of_life) is to worship God.[Leeming, David. 2005. ''The Oxford Companion to World Mythology''. Oxford: [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). {{ISBN|978-0-195-15669-0}}. p. 209.] He is viewed as a personal god[{{cite web |title=God |url=https://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/faithgod.html |access-date=18 December 2010 |website=Islam: Empire of Faith |publisher=[PBS](/source/PBS) |archive-date=27 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327034958/http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/faithgod.html |url-status=live }}]
=== Angels ===
[[File:Rashid al-Din Tabib - Jami al-Tawarikh, f.45v detail - c. 1306-15.png|thumb|Muhammad receiving his first revelation from the angel Gabriel. From the manuscript [Jami' al-Tawarikh](/source/Jami'_al-Tawarikh) by [Rashid-al-Din Hamadani](/source/Rashid-al-Din_Hamadani), 1307.]]
{{Main|Angels in Islam}}
Angels (singular: {{langx|ar|ملك|link=no}}, ''{{transliteration|ar|ALA|malak}}'') are beings described in the Quran{{sfnp|Burge|2015|p=23}} and hadith.{{sfnp|Burge|2015|p=79}} They are described as created to worship God and also to serve in other specific duties such as communicating [revelation](/source/revelation)s from God, recording every person's actions, and taking a person's [soul](/source/soul) at the time of death. They are described as being created variously from 'light' ([''nūr''](/source/N%C5%ABr_(Islam)))[{{cite encyclopedia |title=Nūr |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/nur |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423085030/https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/nur |archive-date=2022-04-23 |encyclopedia=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |via=[Encyclopedia.com](/source/Encyclopedia.com) |language=en |access-date=2026-03-20}}][{{harvc|last1=Hartner, W.|last2=Tj Boer |year=2012 |c=Nūr |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)}} {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0874}}][{{harvc |last=Elias |first=Jamal J. |year=2003|c=Light |in=McAuliffe}} {{doi|10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQSIM_00261}}] or 'fire' (''nār'').[{{harvc |last=Campo |first=Juan E. |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/nar |c=Nar |in=Martin |year=2004}}. – via [Encyclopedia.com](/source/Encyclopedia.com).][{{harvc|last=Fahd, T. |year=2012 |c=Nār |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)}} {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0846}}][{{harvc |last=Toelle |first=Heidi |year=2002 |c=Fire |in=McAuliffe}} {{doi|10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQSIM_00156}}][{{harvp|McAuliffe|2003|p=45}}] Islamic angels are often represented in [anthropomorphic forms](/source/Anthropomorphism) combined with [supernatural](/source/supernatural) images, such as wings, being of great size or wearing heavenly articles.{{sfnp|Burge|2015|pp=97–99}}[{{harvp|Esposito|2002b|pp=26–28}}][{{harvc |last=Webb |first=Gisela |c=Angel |year=n.d. |in=McAuliffe}}][{{harvc|last1=MacDonald, D. B.|last2=Madelung, W. |year=2012 |c=Malāʾika |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)}}{{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0642}}] Common characteristics for angels include a lack of bodily needs and desires, such as eating and drinking.{{sfnp|Çakmak|2017|p=140}} Some of them, such as [Gabriel](/source/Gabriel) (''Jibrīl'') and [Michael](/source/Michael_(archangel)) (''Mika'il''), are mentioned by name in the Quran. Angels play a significant role in literature about the [Mi'raj](/source/Isra_and_Mi'raj), where Muhammad encounters several angels during his journey through the heavens.{{sfnp|Burge|2015|p=79}} Further angels have often been featured in [Islamic eschatology](/source/Islamic_eschatology), [theology](/source/Kalam) and [philosophy](/source/Islamic_philosophy).{{sfnp|Burge|2015|p=22}}
=== Scriptures ===
[[File:Quran rzabasi1.JPG|thumb|A [Quran](/source/Quran) manuscript resting on a [rehal](/source/Rehal_(book_rest)), a book rest for the holy text, {{Circa|9th-century}}]]
{{Main|Islamic holy books|Quran|Wahy}}
{{See also|History of the Quran}}
The pre-eminent holy text of Islam is the [Quran](/source/Quran). Muslims believe that the verses of the Quran were revealed to Muhammad by God, through the [archangel](/source/archangel) Gabriel, on multiple occasions between 610 CE[{{harvc|c=Muhammad|in=Encyclopaedia of Islam Online|year=n.d.|last2=Welch|first2=A.T.|last1=Buhl|first1=F.}}][{{Cite book |last=Watt |first=William Montgomery |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQUZ6BGyohQC&pg=PA5 |title=Islam and the Integration of Society |date=2003 |publisher=[Psychology Press](/source/Psychology_Press) |isbn=978-0-415-17587-6 |pages=5 |access-date=15 June 2021 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228022949/https://books.google.com/books?id=AQUZ6BGyohQC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}] and 632, the year Muhammad died.{{sfnp|Esposito|2004|pp=17–18, 21}} While Muhammad was alive, these revelations were written down by [his companions](/source/Muhammad's_companions), although the primary method of transmission was orally through [memorization](/source/Hafiz_(Quran)).[{{Cite journal |last1=Al Faruqi |first1=Lois Ibsen |author-link=Lois Lamya al-Faruqi |year=1987 |title=The Cantillation of the Qur'an |journal=[Asian Music](/source/Society_for_Asian_Music) |issue=Autumn – Winter 1987 |pages=3–4}}] The Quran is divided into 114 chapters (''[sūrah](/source/s%C5%ABrah)'') which contain a combined 6,236 verses (''[āyāt](/source/ayah)''). The chronologically earlier chapters, revealed at [Mecca](/source/Mecca), are concerned primarily with spiritual topics, while the later [Medina](/source/Medina)n chapters discuss more social and legal issues relevant to the Muslim community.[{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ringgren |first=Helmer |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Quran |title=Qurʾān |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=17 September 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=5 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505001543/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/487666/Quran |url-status=live }} "The word ''Quran'' was invented and first used in the Quran itself. There are [two different theories](/source/Quran) about this term and its formation."] Muslim jurists consult the ''hadith'' ('accounts'), or the written record of Muhammad's life, to both supplement the Quran and assist with its interpretation. The science of Quranic commentary and exegesis is known as ''[tafsir](/source/tafsir)''.[{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/tafsir |title=Tafsīr |access-date=17 September 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019035210/https://www.britannica.com/topic/tafsir |url-status=live }}]{{sfnp|Esposito|2004|pp=79–81}} In addition to its religious significance, the Quran is widely regarded as the finest work in [Arabic literature](/source/Arabic_literature),[{{cite book|first=Alan|last=Jones|location=London|publisher=[Charles E. Tuttle Company](/source/Charles_E._Tuttle_Company)|year=1994|page=1|title=The Koran|quote="Its outstanding literary merit should also be noted: it is by far, the finest work of Arabic prose in existence."|isbn=1842126091}}][{{cite book|first=Arthur|last=Arberry|title=The Koran Interpreted|location=London|publisher=[Allen & Unwin](/source/Allen_%26_Unwin)|year=1956|quote="It may be affirmed that within the literature of the Arabs, wide and fecund as it is both in poetry and in elevated prose, there is nothing to compare with it."|page=191|isbn=0684825074}}] and has influenced art and the Arabic language.[Kadi, Wadad, and Mustansir Mir. "Literature and the Quran." In ''[Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_the_Qur%CA%BE%C4%81n)'' 3. pp. 213, 216.]
Islam also holds that God has sent revelations, called ''[wahy](/source/wahy)'', to different prophets numerous times throughout history. However, Islam teaches that parts of the previously revealed scriptures, such as the ''[Tawrat](/source/Tawrat)'' ([Torah](/source/Torah)) and the ''[Injil](/source/Injil)'' ([Gospel](/source/Gospel_in_Islam)), have become [distorted](/source/tahrif)—either in interpretation, in text, or both,[{{harvp|Esposito|2002b|pp=4–5}}][{{harvp|Peters|2003|p=9}}][{{harvc|c=Tahrif |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam Online|year=n.d. |author=[Hava Lazarus-Yafeh](/source/Hava_Lazarus-Yafeh)}}] while the Quran ({{Lit|Recitation}}) is viewed as the final, verbatim and unaltered word of God.[{{harvp|Teece|2003|pp=12–13}}][{{harvp|Turner|2006|p=42}}]{{sfnp|Bennett|2010|p=101}}
=== Prophets ===
{{Main|Prophets and messengers in Islam|Sunnah|Hadith}}
[[File:Medieval Persian manuscript Muhammad leads Abraham Moses Jesus.jpg|thumb|left|A 15th century[{{cite web |title=BnF. Département des Manuscrits. Supplément turc 190 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/view3if/ga/ark:/12148/btv1b8427195m/f16 |publisher=[Bibliothèque nationale de France](/source/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France) |access-date=7 September 2023 |archive-date=9 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909130407/https://gallica.bnf.fr/view3if/ga/ark:/12148/btv1b8427195m/f16 |url-status=live }}] [Persian miniature](/source/Persian_miniature) depicting [Muhammad](/source/Muhammad_in_Islam) leading [Abraham](/source/Abraham_in_Islam), [Moses](/source/Moses_in_Islam), [Jesus](/source/Jesus_in_Islam) and other prophets in prayer]]
Prophets (Arabic: {{langx|ar|أنبياء|label=none|translit=anbiyāʾ}}) are believed to have been chosen by God to preach a divine message. Some of these prophets additionally deliver a new book and are called "messengers" ({{langx|ar| رسول|label=none|translit=rasūl}}).[{{harvp|Esposito|2003|p=225}}] Muslims believe prophets are human and not divine. All of the prophets are said to have preached the same basic message of Islam – submission to the will of God – to various nations in the past, and this is said to account for many similarities among religions. The Quran recounts the names of numerous figures considered [prophets in Islam](/source/prophets_in_Islam), including [Adam](/source/Adam_in_Islam), [Noah](/source/Noah_in_Islam), [Abraham](/source/Abraham_in_Islam), [Moses](/source/Moses_in_Islam), [David](/source/David_in_Islam) and [Jesus](/source/Jesus_in_Islam), among others.[{{Cite book |last=Reeves |first=J. C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNId86Eu4TEC |title=Bible and Qurʼān: Essays in scriptural intertextuality |publisher=[Brill](/source/Brill_Publishers) |year=2004 |isbn=90-04-12726-7 |location=[Leiden](/source/Leiden) |page=177 |access-date=21 August 2019 |archive-date=19 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419164019/https://books.google.com/books?id=WNId86Eu4TEC |url-status=live }}] The stories associated with the prophets beyond the Quranic accounts are collected and explored in the ''[Qisas al-Anbiya](/source/Qisas_Al-Anbiya)'' (Stories of the Prophets).
Muslims believe that God sent Muhammad as the final prophet ("[Seal of the prophets](/source/Seal_of_the_prophets)") to convey the completed message of Islam.[{{cite encyclopedia |last=Esposito |first=John L. |author-link=John Esposito |editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John L. |title=Islam |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |location=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-530513-5 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195305135.001.0001 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100012298 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110124812/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100012298 |archive-date=2021-01-10 |quote=Profession of Faith...affirms Islam's absolute monotheism and acceptance of Muḥammad as the messenger of Allah, the last and final prophet. |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en|url-access=subscription }}][{{cite encyclopedia |last=Peters |first=F. E. |author-link=Francis Edward Peters |editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John L. |title=Allāh |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |location=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-530513-5 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195305135.001.0001 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095403960 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926053837/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095403960 |archive-date=2020-09-26 |quote=[T]he Muslims' understanding of Allāh is based...on the Qurʿān's public witness. Allāh is Unique, the Creator, Sovereign, and Judge of mankind. It is Allāh who directs the universe through his direct action on nature and who has guided human history through his prophets, Abraham, with whom he made his covenant, Moses/Moosa, Jesus/Eesa, and Muḥammad, through all of whom he founded his chosen communities, the 'Peoples of the Book.' |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en|url-access=subscription }}] In Islam, the "normative" example of Muhammad's life is called the ''[sunnah](/source/sunnah)'' (literally "trodden path"). Muslims are encouraged to emulate Muhammad's moral behaviors in their daily lives, and the sunnah is seen as crucial to guiding interpretation of the Quran.[{{harvp|Martin|2004|p=666}}][{{harvc|c=Hadith|in=Encyclopaedia of Islam Online|year=n.d.|author=J. Robson}}][{{harvc|c=Sunna|in=Encyclopaedia of Islam Online|year=n.d.|author=D.W. Brown}}][{{cite book |last=Goldman |first=Elizabeth |title=Believers: Spiritual Leaders of the World |date=1995 |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |isbn=978-0-19-508240-1 |location=Oxford |page=63}}] This example is preserved in traditions known as [hadith](/source/hadith), which are accounts of his words, actions, and personal characteristics. [Hadith Qudsi](/source/Hadith_qudsi) is a sub-category of hadith, regarded as God's verbatim words quoted by Muhammad that are not part of the Quran. A hadith involves two elements: a chain of narrators, called [''sanad''](/source/Hadith_studies), and the actual wording, called ''[matn](/source/Hadith_studies)''. There are various methodologies to classify the authenticity of hadiths, with the commonly used grading scale being "authentic" or "correct" ({{langx|ar|صحيح|links=no|translit=[ṣaḥīḥ](/source/Authentic_hadith)|label=none}}); "good" ({{langx|ar|حسن|links=no|label=none|translit=[ḥasan](/source/Hasan_(hadith))}}); or "weak" ({{langx|ar|ضعيف|label=none|translit=[ḍaʻīf](/source/Da'if)}}), among others. The ''[Kutub al-Sittah](/source/Kutub_al-Sittah)'' are a collection of six books, regarded as the most authentic reports in [Sunni Islam](/source/Sunni_Islam). Among them is ''[Sahih al-Bukhari](/source/Sahih_al-Bukhari)'', often considered by Sunnis to be one of the most [authentic](/source/Hadith_terminology) sources after the Quran.[[al-Rahman, Aisha Abd](/source/Aisha_Abd_al-Rahman), ed. 1990. ''[Muqaddimah Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ](/source/Introduction_to_the_Science_of_Hadith)''. Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1990. pp. 160–69] Another well-known source of hadiths is known as ''[The Four Books](/source/The_Four_Books)'', which Shias consider as the most authentic hadith reference.[{{cite book |last=Awliya'i |first=Mustafa |title=Outlines of the Development of the Science of Hadith |volume=1 |chapter=The Four Books |url=https://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/vol1-n12-3/outlines-development-science-hadith-dr-mustafa-awliyai/part-1#four-books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912144702/https://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/vol1-n12-3/outlines-development-science-hadith-dr-mustafa-awliyai/part-1#four-books |archive-date=2017-09-12 |translator-last=Qara'i |translator-first=A. Q. |via=Al-Islam.org |access-date=2020-05-24 |language=en}}][{{cite book |last=Rizvi |first=Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar |author-link=Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi |title=The Qur'an and Hadith |location=Tanzania |publisher=Bilal Muslim Mission |chapter=The Hadith §The Four Books (Al-Kutubu'l-Arb'ah) |url=https://www.al-islam.org/quran-and-hadith-allamah-sayyid-saeed-akhtar-rizvi/chapter-4-hadith#four-books-al-kutubul-arbah |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912191319/https://www.al-islam.org/quran-and-hadith-allamah-sayyid-saeed-akhtar-rizvi/chapter-4-hadith#four-books-al-kutubul-arbah |archive-date=2017-09-12 |via=Al-Islam.org |access-date=2020-05-24 |language=en}}]
=== Resurrection and judgment ===
[[File:Quba Mosque (2024).jpg|thumb|[Quba Mosque](/source/Quba_Mosque) is the first mosque to be built in Medina after Muhammed's [emigration (Hijrah)](/source/Hijrah) from Mecca]]
{{Main|Islamic eschatology}}
Belief in the "Day of Resurrection" or ''[Yawm al-Qiyāmah](/source/Qiyamah)'' ({{langx|ar|يوم القيامة|link=no}}) is also crucial for Muslims. It is believed that the time of ''Qiyāmah'' is preordained by God, but unknown to man. The Quran and the hadith, as well as the commentaries of [scholars](/source/Ulama), describe the trials and [tribulations](/source/Great_Tribulation) preceding and during the ''Qiyāmah''. The Quran emphasizes [bodily resurrection](/source/universal_resurrection), a break from the [pre-Islamic Arabia](/source/pre-Islamic_Arabia)n understanding of death.[{{harvp|Glassé|2003|loc="Resurrection"|pp=382–383}}][{{harvp|Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)|2012|loc="Avicenna"}}. {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_DUM_0467}}: "Ibn Sīnā, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sīnā is known in the West as 'Avicenna'."][{{harvc|c=Qiyama |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam Online|year=n.d. |author=Gardet, L.}}]
On Yawm al-Qiyāmah, Muslims believe all humankind will be judged by their good and bad deeds and consigned to ''[Jannah](/source/Jannah)'' (paradise) or ''[Jahannam](/source/Jahannam)'' (hell).[{{cite web |editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John L. |editor-link=John Esposito |title=Eschatology |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e588 |url-access=subscription |work=[The Oxford Dictionary of Islam](/source/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Islam) |via=Oxford Islamic Studies Online |access-date=18 April 2017 |archive-date=13 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100913062714/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e588 |url-status=dead }}] The Quran in [Surat al-Zalzalah](/source/Surat_al-Zalzalah) describes this as: "So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it. And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it." The Quran [lists several sins](/source/Islamic_views_of_sin) that can condemn a person to [hell](/source/hell). However, the Quran makes it clear that God will forgive the sins of those who repent if he wishes. Good deeds, like charity, prayer, and compassion towards animals{{sfnp|Esposito|2011|p=130}} will be rewarded with entry to heaven. Muslims view heaven as a place of joy and blessings, with Quranic references describing its features. Mystical traditions in Islam place these heavenly delights in the context of an ecstatic awareness of God.[{{harvp|Smith|2006|p=89}}; ''Encyclopedia of Islam and Muslim World'', p. 565][{{harvc |c=Garden |first=Asma |last=Afsaruddin |year=n.d. |in=McAuliffe}}][{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Paradise|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online}}] ''Yawm al-Qiyāmah'' is also identified in the Quran as ''Yawm ad-Dīn'' ({{lang|ar|يوم الدين}} "Day of Religion");[{{qref|1|4|b=y}};] ''as-Sāʿah'' ({{lang|ar|الساعة}} "the Last Hour");[{{qref|6|31|b=y}};] and ''[al-Qāriʿah](/source/Al-Qaria)'' ({{lang|ar|القارعة}} "The Clatterer").[{{qref|101|1|b=y}}]
=== Divine predestination ===
{{Main|Predestination in Islam}}
The concept of divine predestination in Islam ({{langx|ar|القضاء والقدر}}, ''{{transliteration|ar|DIN|al-qadāʾ wa l-qadar}}'') means that every matter, good or bad, is believed to have been decreed by God. ''Al-qadar'', meaning "power", derives from a root that means "to measure" or "calculating".[{{cite web |url=http://www.freeweb.hu/etymological/AEDweb.htm |date=2002 |title=Andras Rajki's A. E. D. (Arabic Etymological Dictionary) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208204654/http://www.freeweb.hu/etymological/AEDweb.htm |archive-date=8 December 2011 |access-date=13 November 2020}}][{{harvp|Cohen-Mor|2001|p=4}}: "The idea of predestination is reinforced by the frequent mention of events 'being written' or 'being in a book' before they happen": Say: "Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us..."][{{harvc |last=Karamustafa |first=Ahmet T. |c=Fate |year=n.d. |in=McAuliffe}}: The verb ''qadara'' literally means "to measure, to determine". Here it is used to mean that "God measures and orders his creation".][{{harvc |last=Gardet|first=L.|year=2012|c=al-Ḳaḍāʾ Wa 'l-Ḳadar |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)}} {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0407}}] Muslims often express this belief in divine destiny with the phrase ["In-sha-Allah"](/source/Inshallah) ({{langx|ar|إن شاء الله}}) meaning "if God wills" when speaking on future events.[{{cite web |title=Muslim beliefs – Al-Qadr |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z43pfcw/revision/4 |access-date=13 November 2020 |publisher=BBC |work=Bitesize – GCSE – Edexcel |archive-date=15 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115112558/https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z43pfcw/revision/4 |url-status=live }}]
== Acts of worship ==
{{Main|Five Pillars of Islam|Ibadah}}
There are five acts of worship that are considered [duties](/source/fard)–the [Shahada](/source/Shahada) (declaration of faith), the five daily prayers, [Zakat](/source/Zakat) (almsgiving), [fasting during Ramadan](/source/fasting_during_Ramadan), and the [Hajj](/source/Hajj) pilgrimage–collectively known as "The Pillars of Islam" (''Arkān al-Islām'').[{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pillars-of-Islam|title=Pillars of Islam | Islamic Beliefs & Practices | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=3 May 2023|access-date=16 December 2021|archive-date=5 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905102524/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pillars-of-Islam|url-status=live}}] In addition, Muslims also perform other optional [supererogatory](/source/Supererogation) acts that are encouraged but not considered to be duties.[{{Cite journal|last=ZAROUG|first=ABDULLAHI HASSAN|date=1985|title=THE CONCEPT OF PERMISSION, SUPEREROGATORY ACTS AND ASETICISM [sic] IN ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20847307|journal=Islamic Studies|volume=24|issue=2|pages=167–180|jstor=20847307|issn=0578-8072|access-date=7 January 2023|archive-date=7 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207140013/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20847307|url-status=live}}]
=== Declaration of faith ===
[[File:Silver Rupee Akbar.jpg|thumb|right|Silver coin of the [Mughal Emperor](/source/Mughal_Emperor) [Akbar](/source/Akbar), c. 16th century, inscribed with the ''Shahadah'']]
{{Main|Shahada}}
The [shahada](/source/shahada)h{{sfnp|Nasr|2003|pp=3, 39, 85, 270–272}} is an [oath](/source/oath) declaring belief in Islam. The expanded statement is "{{transliteration|ar|DIN|ʾašhadu ʾal-lā ʾilāha ʾillā-llāhu wa ʾašhadu ʾanna muħammadan rasūlu-llāh}}" ({{langx|ar|أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمداً رسول الله|label=none}}), or, "I testify that there is no [deity](/source/deity) except [God](/source/God_in_Islam) and I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God."[{{cite journal |last=Mohammad |first=Noor |date=1985 |title=The Doctrine of Jihad: An Introduction |journal=[Journal of Law and Religion](/source/Journal_of_Law_and_Religion) |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=381–397 |doi=10.2307/1051034 |jstor=1051034 |publisher=Journal of Law and Religion, Inc. |language=en}}] Islam is sometimes argued to have a very simple creed with the shahada being the premise for the rest of the religion. Non-Muslims wishing to [convert to Islam](/source/convert_to_Islam) are required to recite the shahada in front of witnesses.[{{harvc |last=Kasim |first=Husain |year=2004 |c=Islam |pp=195–197 |in=Salamone}}][{{cite book |last=Galonnier |first=Juliette |editor-last=van Nieuwkerk |editor-first=Karin |title=Moving In and Out of Islam |chapter=Moving In or Moving Toward? Reconceptualizing Conversion to Islam as a Liminal Process |location=New York |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=2021 |pages=44–66 |doi=10.7560/317471-003 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7560/317471-003/html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023001/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7560/317471-003/html |archive-date=2023-12-28 |language=en}}]
=== Prayer ===
{{Main|Salah}}
{{See also|Mosque|Jumu'ah}}
[[File:Mosque.jpg|thumb|Muslim men [prostrating](/source/prostration) in prayer, at the [Umayyad Mosque](/source/Umayyad_Mosque), [Damascus](/source/Damascus)]]
Prayer in Islam, called [as-salah](/source/salah) or aṣ-ṣalāt ({{langx|ar|الصلاة|link=no}}), is seen as a personal communication with God and consists of repeating units called [rakat](/source/rakat) that include [bowing](/source/Ruku) and [prostrating](/source/Sujud) to God. There are five timed prayers each day that are considered duties. The prayers are recited in the Arabic language and performed in [the direction](/source/Qibla) of the [Kaaba](/source/Kaaba). The act also requires a state of ritual purity achieved by means of either a routine ''[wudu](/source/wudu)'' ritual wash or, in certain circumstances, a ''[ghusl](/source/ghusl)'' full body ritual wash.[{{harvp|Esposito|2002b|pp=18, 19}}][{{harvp|Hedayetullah|2006|pp=53–55}}][{{harvp|Kobeisy|2004|pp=22–34}}][{{harvp|Momen|1987|p=178}}]
A [mosque](/source/mosque) is a [place of worship](/source/places_of_worship) for Muslims, who often refer to it by its Arabic name ''masjid''. Although the primary purpose of the mosque is to serve as a place of prayer, it is also an important social centre for the [Muslim community](/source/ummah). For example, the [Masjid an-Nabawi](/source/Al-Masjid_an-Nabawi) ("Prophetic Mosque") in Medina, [Saudi Arabia](/source/Saudi_Arabia), used to also serve as a shelter for the poor.[{{cite encyclopedia |last=Mattson |first=Ingrid |year=2006 |title=Women, Islam, and Mosques |pages=615–629 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America |series=Volume 2, Part VII. Islam |editor1=R. S. Keller |name-list-style=and |editor2=R. R. Ruether |place=Bloomington and Indianapolis |publisher=[Indiana University Press](/source/Indiana_University_Press) |isbn=978-0-253-34687-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WPILfbtT5tQC&pg=PA615 |access-date=2 October 2021 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023019/https://books.google.com/books?id=WPILfbtT5tQC&pg=PA615#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}] [Minaret](/source/Minaret)s are towers used to call the [adhan](/source/adhan), a vocal call to signal the prayer time.[{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Pedersen |first1=Johannes |last2=Hillenbrand |first2=Robert |last3=Burton-Page |first3=John |author-link3=John Burton-Page |title=Masd̲j̲id |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Islam |edition=2nd |location=Leiden |publisher=[Brill](/source/Brill_Publishers) |year=2010 |doi=10.1163/9789004206106_eifo_COM_0694 |language=en}}][{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/mosque |title=Mosque |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=17 September 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=28 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928065350/https://www.britannica.com/topic/mosque |url-status=live }}]
=== Almsgiving ===
{{Main|Zakat}}
{{See also|Sadaqah}}
[[File:Slot at the Zaouia Moulay Idriss II 1.jpg|thumb|A slot for giving zakat at the [Zawiya of Moulay Idris II](/source/Zawiya_of_Moulay_Idris_II) in [Fez, Morocco](/source/Fez%2C_Morocco)]]
[Zakat](/source/Zakat) ([Arabic](/source/Arabic_language): {{langx|ar|زكاة|translit=zakāh|label=none}}), also spelled ''Zakāt'' or ''Zakah'', is a type of [almsgiving](/source/almsgiving) characterized by the giving of a fixed portion (2.5% annually)[{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Ahmed |first1=Medani |last2=Gianci |first2=Sebastian |title=Zakat |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy |editor1-last=Cordes |editor1-first=Joseph J. |editor2-last=Ebel |editor2-first=Robert D. |editor3-last=Gravelle |editor3-first=Jane |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Urban Institute Press |year=2005 |page=479 |isbn=978-0877667520 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m66_BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA479 |language=en}}{{Dead link|date=May 2026}}] of [accumulated wealth](/source/Financial_capital) by those who can afford it to help the poor or needy, such as for freeing captives, those in [debt](/source/bonded_labour), or for (stranded) travellers, and for those employed to collect zakat. It acts as a form of [welfare](/source/welfare_spending) in Muslim societies.[{{Cite book |last=Ariff |first=Mohamed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NP4ZL0TJ9s4C&pg=PA55 |title=The Islamic Voluntary Sector in Southeast Asia: Islam and the Economic Development of Southeast Asia |publisher=[Institute of Southeast Asian Studies](/source/Institute_of_Southeast_Asian_Studies) |year=1991 |isbn=978-981-3016-07-1 |pages=55– |access-date=7 October 2017 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023007/https://books.google.com/books?id=NP4ZL0TJ9s4C&&pg=PA55 |url-status=live }}] It is considered a religious obligation that the well-off owe the needy because their wealth is seen as a trust from God's bounty,[{{harvp|Esposito|2010|p=109–110}}: This is not regarded as charity because it is not really voluntary but instead is owed, by those who have received their wealth as a trust from God's bounty, to the poor.] and is seen as a purification of one's excess wealth.[{{Cite book| publisher = RoutledgeCurzon| isbn = 9780415297967| title =Major World Religions: From Their Origins to the Present.| location = United Kingdom| year = 2003| last=Ridgeon| first=Lloyd| url = | page = 258|quote=Aside from its function of purifying believers' wealth, the payment of zakat may have contributed in no small way to the economic welfare of the Muslim community in Mecca.}}] The total annual value contributed due to zakat is 15 times greater than global humanitarian aid donations, using conservative estimates.[{{Cite news |date=1 June 2012 |title=A faith-based aid revolution in the Muslim world |work=[The New Humanitarian](/source/The_New_Humanitarian) |url=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/95564/analysis-faith-based-aid-revolution-muslim-world |access-date=27 August 2023 |archive-date=14 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114014900/https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/95564/analysis-faith-based-aid-revolution-muslim-world |url-status=live }}] [Sadaqah](/source/Sadaqah), as opposed to Zakat, is a much-encouraged optional charity.[{{Cite book |last=Said |first=Abdul Aziz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bs7g0O4eLYC&pg=PA145 |title=Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static |publisher=[Taylor & Francis](/source/Taylor_%26_Francis) |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-415-77011-8 |page=145 |display-authors=etal |access-date=7 October 2017 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023121/https://books.google.com/books?id=4bs7g0O4eLYC&pg=PA145 |url-status=live }}]{{sfnp|Stefon|2010|p=[https://archive.org/details/islamicbeliefspr0000stef/page/72 72]}} A [waqf](/source/waqf) is a perpetual [charitable trust](/source/charitable_trust), which finances hospitals and schools in Muslim societies.[{{cite book |last=Hudson |first=A. |title=Equity and Trusts |year=2003 |edition=3rd |page=32 |location=London |publisher=Cavendish Publishing |isbn=1-85941-729-9}}]
=== Fasting ===
[[File:Iftar for Ramadhan.jpg|thumb|A fast-breaking feast, known as ''[Iftar](/source/Iftar)'', is served traditionally with [dates](/source/date_(fruits)).]]
{{Main|Fasting in Islam}}
{{See also|Fasting during Ramadan}}
In Islam, fasting ([Arabic](/source/Arabic_language): {{langx|ar|صوم|translit=ṣawm|label=none}}) precludes food and drink, as well as other forms of consumption, such as [smoking](/source/Smoking_in_Islam), and is performed from dawn to sunset. During the month of [Ramadan](/source/Ramadan), it is considered a duty for Muslims to fast.[{{cite web |title=Ramadan |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ramadan |access-date=2023-08-16 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=9 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009215438/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ramadan |url-status=live }}] The fast is to encourage a feeling of nearness to God by restraining oneself for God's sake from what is otherwise permissible and to think of the needy. In addition, there are other days, such as the [Day of Arafah](/source/Day_of_Arafah), when fasting is optional.[{{Cite book| publisher =Tughra Books | isbn = 9781597846110| title = Fasting In Islam And The Month Of Ramadan| location = United States| year =2006 | last=Ramadanali| url = |page=51
| quote = }}]
=== Pilgrimage ===
{{Main|Hajj|Umrah}}
{{See also|Holiest sites in Islam}}
[[File:A packed house - Flickr - Al Jazeera English.jpg|thumb|right|Pilgrims at the [Great Mosque of Mecca](/source/Great_Mosque_of_Mecca) during the [Hajj](/source/Hajj) season]]
The Islamic [pilgrimage](/source/pilgrimage), called the {{transliteration|ar|ALA|ḥajj}} ({{langx|ar|حج|link=no}}), is to be done at least once a lifetime by every Muslim with the means to do so during the [Islamic month](/source/Islamic_calendar) of [Dhu al-Hijjah](/source/Dhu_al-Hijjah). Rituals of the Hajj mostly imitate the story of the family of [Abraham](/source/Abraham_in_Islam).[{{Cite web |last=Naik |first=Dr Zakir |author-link=Zakir Naik |date=7 January 2025 |title=What Are the Pillars of Islam? |url=https://islampidia.org/en/what-are-the-pillars-of-islam/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251115054332/https://islampidia.org/en/what-are-the-pillars-of-islam/ |archive-date=2025-11-15 |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=Islampidia |language=en-AU}}{{Dead link|date=May 2026}}][{{Cite web |title=The Five Pillars of Islam |url=https://localhost:5000/learn/educators/curriculum-resources/art-of-the-islamic-world/unit-one/the-five-pillars-of-islam |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}] In [Mecca](/source/Mecca), pilgrims walk seven times around the [Kaaba](/source/Kaaba), which Muslims believe Abraham built as a place of worship, and they walk seven times between Mount [Safa and Marwa](/source/Safa_and_Marwa), recounting the steps of Abraham's wife, [Hagar](/source/Hagar), who was looking for water for her baby [Ishmael](/source/Ishmael_in_Islam) in the desert before Mecca developed into a settlement.[{{harvp|Goldschmidt|Davidson|2005|p=48}}][{{harvp|Farah|1994|pp=145–147}}][{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Hajj |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online}}] The pilgrimage also involves spending a day praying and worshipping in the plain of [Mount Arafat](/source/Mount_Arafat) as well as symbolically [stoning the Devil](/source/Stoning_of_the_Devil).[{{Cite book |last=Peters |first=F.E. |title=Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians |date=2009 |isbn=978-1-4008-2548-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYJ2c9E9IM8C&pg=PA19 |page=20 |publisher=Princeton University Press |access-date=7 October 2014 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023112/https://books.google.com/books?id=HYJ2c9E9IM8C&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}] All Muslim men wear only two simple white unstitched pieces of cloth called [ihram](/source/Ihram_clothing), intended to bring continuity through generations and uniformity among pilgrims despite class or origin.[{{cite book |last=Cornell |first=Vincent J. |title=Voices of Islam: Voices of tradition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5LNUS0ciAAC&pg=PA29 |access-date=26 August 2012 |year=2007 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-275-98733-6 |page=29}}][{{harvp|Glassé|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC&pg=PA207 207]}}] Another form of pilgrimage, [Umrah](/source/Umrah), is optional and can be undertaken at any time of the year. Other sites of Islamic pilgrimage are [Medina](/source/Medina), where Muhammad died, as well as [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem), a city of many Islamic prophets and the site of [Al-Aqsa](/source/Al-Aqsa), which was the direction of prayer before Mecca.[{{cite book|author=Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p44kAQAAMAAJ|title=The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West During the Period of the Crusades|publisher=Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University|year=1986|isbn=0918720583|editor1=Goss, V. P.|volume=21|page=208|editor2=Bornstein, C. V.|access-date=15 January 2023|archive-date=28 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023032/https://books.google.com/books?id=p44kAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}][{{cite book |last=Trofimov |first=Yaroslav |author-link=Yaroslav Trofimov |title=The Siege of Mecca: The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine |location=New York |publisher=[Knopf](/source/Knopf) |date=2008 |page=79 |isbn=978-0-307-47290-8 |language=en}}]
=== Other acts of worship ===
{{See also|Quran#Recitation|Dua|Dhikr}}
[[File:Men reading the Koran in Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria.jpg|thumb|Muslim men reading the Quran in the [Umayyad Mosque](/source/Umayyad_Mosque) of [Damascus](/source/Damascus)]]
[[File:Live recitation of Surah Yusuf, verses 1 - 22 in Hafs an Asim.webm|thumb|left|350x350px|A young man reciting the Qur'an in the [United States](/source/Islam_in_the_United_States).]]
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Muslims recite and memorize the whole or parts of the Quran as acts of virtue. [Tajwid](/source/Tajwid) refers to the set of rules for the proper [elocution](/source/elocution) of the Quran.[{{Cite book| publisher = | isbn = | title = Foundation of Tajweed| location = | year = 2013|edition=2| last=Aboo Yahyaa| url = | page = 1
| quote = }}] Many Muslims recite the whole Quran during the month of Ramadan.{{sfnp|Stefon|2010|p=[https://archive.org/details/islamicbeliefspr0000stef/page/42 42–43]}} One who has memorized the whole Quran is called a hafiz ("memorizer"), and hadiths mention that these individuals will be able to intercede for others on Judgment Day.{{sfnp|Nigosian|2004|p=[{{google books|plainurl=y|id=my7hnALd_NkC|page=70}} 70]}}
Supplication to God, called in Arabic {{Transliteration|ar|DIN|duʿāʾ}} ({{langx|ar|دعاء}} {{IPA|ar|dʊˈʕæːʔ|IPA}}) has its own etiquette such as [raising hands](/source/Raising_hands_in_dua) as if begging.[{{Cite book| publisher = Brill| isbn = 9789004335523| title = The Quṣṣāṣ of Early Islam| location = Netherlands| year = 2016| last=Armstrong| first=Lyall| url = | page = 184| quote = }}]
Remembrance of God ({{langx|ar|ذكر|translit=Dhikr'|label=none}}) refers to phrases repeated referencing God. Commonly, this includes Tahmid, declaring [praise be due to God](/source/Alhamdulillah) ({{langx|ar|الحمد لله|translit=al-Ḥamdu lillāh|label=none}}) during prayer or when feeling thankful, [Tasbih](/source/Tasbih), declaring glory to God during prayer or when in awe of something and saying '[in the name of God](/source/Basmala)' ({{lang|ar|بسملة}}, {{transliteration|ar|ALA-LC|basmalah}}) before starting an act such as eating.[{{Cite web|title=alhamdulillah |url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/alhamdulillah|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227042540/https://www.lexico.com/definition/alhamdulillah|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 27, 2020|access-date=2021-10-16|website=Lexico}}]
== History ==
{{Main|History of Islam}}
{{For timeline|Timeline of the history of Islam}}
{{See also|List of Muslim empires and dynasties}}
{{wide image|Madina Haram at evening.jpg|900px|align-cap=center|A 2004 panoramic view of [Al-Masjid al-Nabawi](/source/Al-Masjid_al-Nabawi) (the Mosque of the Prophet) in [Medina](/source/Medina), [Hejaz](/source/Hejaz) region, present-day [Saudi Arabia](/source/Saudi_Arabia). It is considered the second most sacred mosque in Islam}}
=== Muhammad and the beginning of Islam (570–632) ===
{{Main|Muhammad|Muhammad in Islam}}
{{for timeline|Timeline of early Islamic history}}
{{Further|Muhammad in Mecca|Early social changes under Islam|First Islamic state}}
[[File:Hira_Cave.jpg|thumb|[Cave of Hira](/source/Jabal_al-Nour)]]
According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad was born in [Mecca](/source/Mecca) in [570](/source/570) [CE](/source/Common_Era) and was orphaned early in life. Growing up as a trader, he became known as the "[trusted one](/source/Amin_(name))" ({{langx|ar|الامين}}) and was sought after as an impartial arbitrator. He later married his employer, the businesswoman [Khadija](/source/Khadija_bint_Khuwaylid).{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=6}} In the year 610 CE, troubled by the moral decline and idolatry prevalent in Mecca and seeking seclusion and spiritual contemplation, Muhammad retreated to the [Cave of Hira](/source/Cave_of_Hira) in the mountain [Jabal al-Nour](/source/Jabal_al-Nour), near Mecca. It was during his time in the cave that he is said to have [received the first revelation](/source/Muhammad's_first_revelation) of the [Quran](/source/Quran) from the angel [Gabriel](/source/Gabriel).[{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Muhammad |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online}}]
[[File:Siyer-i_Nebi_151b.jpg|thumb|"Muhammad at the Ka'ba" from the ''[Siyer-i Nebi](/source/Siyer-i_Nebi)''.[{{cite web |title=Ottomans : religious painting |url=http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/ottoman33.html |access-date=1 May 2016}}] Muhammad is shown with veiled face, {{Circa|1595}}.]]
During this time, [while in Mecca, Muhammad](/source/Muhammad_in_Mecca) preached first in secret and then in public, imploring his listeners to abandon [polytheism](/source/Arab_polytheism) and worship one God. Many [early converts to Islam](/source/Early_Muslims) were women, the poor, foreigners, and slaves like the first [muezzin](/source/muezzin) [Bilal ibn Rabah al-Habashi](/source/Bilal_ibn_Rabah_al-Habashi).[Rabah, Bilal B. ''[Encyclopedia of Islam](/source/Encyclopedia_of_Islam).''] The Meccan elite felt Muhammad was [destabilizing their social order](/source/Early_social_changes_under_Islam) by preaching about one God and giving questionable ideas to the poor and slaves because they profited from the pilgrimages to the idols of the Kaaba.[{{Cite book |last=Ünal |first=Ali |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DyuqdDIjaswC&pg=PA1323 |title=The Qurʼan with Annotated Interpretation in Modern English |publisher=Tughra Books |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-59784-000-2 |pages=1323– |access-date=7 October 2017 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024048/https://books.google.com/books?id=DyuqdDIjaswC&pg=PA1323#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}][{{harvp|Holt|Lambton|Lewis|1977|p=36}}]
After 12 years of the [persecution of Muslims by the Meccans](/source/persecution_of_Muslims_by_the_Meccans), Muhammad and his [companions](/source/Sahaba) performed the ''[Hijra](/source/Hegira)'' ("emigration") in 622 to the city of Yathrib (current-day Medina). He established the [first Islamic state](/source/first_Islamic_state) there with the Medinan converts (the ''[Ansar](/source/Ansar_(Islam))'') and the Meccan migrants (the ''[Muhajirun](/source/Muhajirun)''). The [Constitution of Medina](/source/Constitution_of_Medina) was signed by all the tribes of Medina. This established religious freedoms and freedom to use their own laws among the Muslim and non-Muslim communities as well as an agreement to defend Medina from external threats.{{sfnp|Serjeant|1978|p=4}} Meccan forces and their allies lost against the Muslims at the [Battle of Badr](/source/Battle_of_Badr) in 624 and then fought an inconclusive battle in the [Battle of Uhud](/source/Battle_of_Uhud)[{{Citation |last=Peter Crawford |title=The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians and the Rise of Islam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-oHBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA83 |page=83 |publisher=Pen & Sword Books Limited |isbn=9781473828650 |date=2013-07-16 |access-date=5 August 2022 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023957/https://books.google.com/books?id=d-oHBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA83 |url-status=live }}.] before unsuccessfully besieging Medina in the [Battle of the Trench](/source/Battle_of_the_Trench) (March–April 627). In 628, the [Treaty of Hudaybiyyah](/source/Treaty_of_Hudaybiyyah) was signed between Mecca and the Muslims, but it was broken by Mecca two years later. As more tribes converted to Islam, Meccan trade routes were cut off by the Muslims.[{{harvp|Peters|2003|pp=78–79, 194}}][{{harvp|Lapidus|2002|pp=23–28}}] By 629 Muhammad was victorious in the nearly bloodless [conquest of Mecca](/source/conquest_of_Mecca), and by the time of his death in 632 (at age 62) he had united the [tribes of Arabia](/source/tribes_of_Arabia) into a single religious [polity](/source/polity).[{{Cite book| last1 = Melchert| first1 = Christopher| date = 2020| contribution = The Rightly Guided Caliphs: The Range of Views Preserved in Ḥadīth| editor1-last = al-Sarhan| editor1-first = Saud| title = Political Quietism in Islam: Sunni and Shi'i Practice and Thought| location = London and New York| publisher = [I.B. Tauris](/source/I.B._Tauris)| isbn = 978-1-83860-765-4| pages = 70–71| contribution-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=96TDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA63| access-date = 17 February 2022| archive-date = 28 December 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023957/https://books.google.com/books?id=96TDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false| url-status = live}}] – are known in Sunni Islam as ''al-khulafā' ar-rāshidūn'' ("[Rightly Guided Caliphs](/source/Rightly_Guided_Caliphs)").{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=40}} Some tribes left Islam and rebelled under leaders who declared themselves new prophets but were crushed by Abu Bakr in the [Ridda wars](/source/Ridda_wars).[{{harvp|Holt|Lewis|1977|p=57}}][{{harvp|Hourani|2002|p=22}}][{{harvp|Lapidus|2002|p=32}}][{{harvp|Madelung|1996|p=43}}][{{harvp|Ṭabāṭabāʼī|1979|pp=30–50}}] Local populations of Jews and indigenous Christians, persecuted as religious minorities and heretics and taxed heavily, often helped Muslims take over their {{ambiguous|date=April 2025}} lands,{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=38}} resulting in rapid expansion of the caliphate into the [Persian](/source/Sassanid_Empire) and [Byzantine](/source/Byzantine) empires.[{{harvp|Holt|Lewis|1977|p=74}}][{{harvp|Gardet|Jomier|2012}}][{{cite book |last=J. Kuiper |first=Matthew |title=Da'wa: A Global History of Islamic Missionary Thought and Practice |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=2021 |isbn=9781351510721 |page=85}}][{{Cite book |last=Lapidus |first=Ira M. |title=A History of Islamic Societies |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-521-51430-9 |pages=60–61 |author-link=Ira M. Lapidus}}] Uthman [was elected in 644](/source/election_of_Uthman) and his assassination by rebels led to Ali being elected the next Caliph. In the [First Civil War](/source/First_Fitna), Muhammad's widow, [Aisha](/source/Aisha), raised an army against Ali, attempting to avenge the death of Uthman, but was defeated at the [Battle of the Camel](/source/Battle_of_the_Camel). Ali attempted to remove the governor of Syria, [Mu'awiya](/source/Mu'awiya), who was seen as corrupt. Mu'awiya then declared war on Ali and was defeated in the [Battle of Siffin](/source/Battle_of_Siffin). Ali's decision to arbitrate angered the [Kharijites](/source/Kharijites), an extremist sect, who felt that by not fighting a sinner, Ali became a sinner as well. The Kharijites rebelled and were defeated in the [Battle of Nahrawan](/source/Battle_of_Nahrawan) but a Kharijite assassin later killed Ali. Ali's son, Hasan ibn Ali, was elected Caliph and signed a [peace treaty](/source/Hasan%E2%80%93Muawiya_treaty) to avoid further fighting, abdicating to Mu'awiya in return for Mu'awiya not appointing a successor.{{sfnp|Holt|Lewis|1977|pp=67–72}} Mu'awiya began the [Umayyad dynasty](/source/Umayyad_dynasty) with the appointment of his son [Yazid I](/source/Yazid%26nbsp%3BI) as successor, sparking the [Second Civil War](/source/Second_Fitna). During the [Battle of Karbala](/source/Battle_of_Karbala), [Husayn ibn Ali](/source/Husayn_ibn_Ali) was killed by Yazid's forces; the event has been [annually commemorated](/source/Ashura) by Shias ever since. Sunnis, led by [Ibn al-Zubayr](/source/Ibn_al-Zubayr) and opposed to a dynastic caliphate, were defeated in the [siege of Mecca](/source/Siege_of_Mecca_(692)). These disputes over leadership would give rise to the [Sunni](/source/Sunni)-[Shia](/source/Shia) schism,[{{Cite news |last=Harney |first=John |date=3 January 2016 |title=How Do Sunni and Shia Islam Differ? |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/world/middleeast/q-and-a-how-do-sunni-and-shia-islam-differ.html |access-date=4 January 2016 |archive-date=11 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511081444/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/world/middleeast/q-and-a-how-do-sunni-and-shia-islam-differ.html |url-status=live }}] with the Shia believing leadership belongs to Muhammad's family through Ali, called the [ahl al-bayt](/source/ahl_al-bayt).{{sfnp|Waines|2003|p=46}}
Abu Bakr's leadership oversaw the beginning of the compilation of the Quran. The Caliph [Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz](/source/Umar_ibn_Abd_al-Aziz) set up the committee, [The Seven Fuqaha of Medina](/source/The_Seven_Fuqaha_of_Medina),{{sfnp|Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUmar Ibn Kathīr|2012|p=505}}[''Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz'' By Imam Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn Abdul Hakam died 214 AH 829 C.E. Publisher Zam Zam Publishers Karachi, pp. 54–59] and [Malik ibn Anas](/source/Malik_ibn_Anas) wrote one of the earliest books on Islamic jurisprudence, the ''[Muwatta](/source/Muwatta_Imam_Malik)'', as a consensus of the opinion of those jurists.[{{Cite book |last=Noel James Coulson |title=History of Islamic Law |year=1964 |isbn=978-0-7486-0514-9 |page=103 |publisher=King Abdulaziz Public Library |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5Ks31qHlSYC |access-date=7 October 2014 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228023959/https://books.google.com/books?id=d5Ks31qHlSYC |url-status=live }}][{{Cite book |editor-last1=Houtsma |editor-first1=M.T. |editor-last2=Wensinck |editor-first2=A.J. |editor-last3=Lévi-Provençal |editor-first3=E. |editor-last4=Gibb |editor-first4=H.A.R. |editor-last5=Heffening |editor-first5=W. |series=Volume V: L—Moriscos |title=E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936 |publisher=[Brill Publishers](/source/Brill_Publishers) |year=1993 |edition=reprint |isbn=978-90-04-09791-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Va6oSxzojzoC |pages=207– |access-date=19 September 2021 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024105/https://books.google.com/books?id=Va6oSxzojzoC |url-status=live }}][{{cite book |editor=[Moshe Sharon](/source/Moshe_Sharon) |title=Studies in Islamic History and Civilization: In Honour of Professor David Ayalon |year=1986 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789652640147 |page=264 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_wUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA264 |access-date=20 June 2015 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024050/https://books.google.com/books?id=0_wUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA264#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}] The [Kharijites](/source/Kharijites) believed there was no compromised middle ground between good and evil, and any Muslim who committed a grave sin would become an unbeliever. The term "kharijites" would also be used to refer to later groups such as [ISIS](/source/ISIS).[{{Cite news|last=Mamouri|first=Ali|date=8 January 2015|title=Who are the Kharijites and what do they have to do with IS?|work=Al-monitor|url=https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2015/01/islamic-state-kjarijites-continuation.html|access-date=6 March 2022|archive-date=6 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306213145/https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2015/01/islamic-state-kjarijites-continuation.html|url-status=live}}] The [Murji'ah](/source/Murji'ah) taught that people's righteousness could be judged by God alone. Therefore, wrongdoers might be considered misguided, but not denounced as unbelievers.{{sfnp|Blankinship|2008|p=43}} This attitude came to prevail into mainstream Islamic beliefs.{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=87}}
The Umayyad dynasty conquered the [Maghreb](/source/Maghreb), the [Iberian Peninsula](/source/Iberian_Peninsula), [Narbonnese Gaul](/source/Gallia_Narbonensis) and [Sindh](/source/Sindh).[{{cite book |first=Donald |last=Puchala |title=Theory and History in International Relations |page=137 |publisher=Routledge |year=2003}}] The [Early Muslim conquests](/source/Early_Muslim_conquests) have been described as [Islamic imperialism](/source/Imperialism).[{{cite journal | last=Wright | first=Craig S | title=Arab Colonialism and the Roots of the Golden Age of Islam | journal=SSRN Electronic Journal | date=2022 | issn=1556-5068 | doi=10.2139/ssrn.4020040 | url=https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=4020040 | access-date=2026-04-24 | page=}}] The Umayyads struggled with a lack of legitimacy and relied on a heavily patronized military.{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=45}} Since the [jizya](/source/jizya) tax was a tax paid by non-Muslims which exempted them from military service, the Umayyads denied recognizing the conversion of non-Arabs, as it reduced revenue.{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=87}} While the Rashidun Caliphate emphasized austerity, with Umar even requiring an inventory of each official's possessions,[{{cite book |first1=Ahmad Ibn Jabir|last1=Al-Biladhuri |first2=Philip|last2=Hitti|title=Kitab Futuhu'l-Buldan|page=219 |publisher=AMS Press |year=1969}}] Umayyad luxury bred dissatisfaction among the pious.{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=87}} The Kharijites led the [Berber Revolt](/source/Berber_Revolt), leading to the first Muslim states independent of the Caliphate. In the [Abbasid Revolution](/source/Abbasid_Revolution), non-Arab converts (''[mawali](/source/mawali)''), Arab clans pushed aside by the Umayyad clan, and some Shi'a rallied and overthrew the Umayyads, inaugurating the more cosmopolitan Abbasid dynasty in 750.[{{harvp|Lapidus|2002|p=56}}]{{sfnp|Lewis|1993|pp=71–83}}
=== Classical era (750–1258) ===
{{Further|Hadith studies|Islamic philosophy}}
{{See also|Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe|Turco-Persian tradition}}
Al-Shafi'i codified a method to determine the reliability of hadith.{{sfnp|Lapidus|2002|p=86}} During the early Abbasid era, scholars such as [Muhammad al-Bukhari](/source/Muhammad_al-Bukhari) and [Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj](/source/Muslim_ibn_al-Hajjaj) compiled the major [Sunni hadith collections](/source/Six_major_Hadith_collections) while scholars like [Al-Kulayni](/source/Muhammad_ibn_Ya'qub_al-Kulayni) and [Ibn Babawayh](/source/Ibn_Babawayh) compiled major Shia hadith collections. The four Sunni [Madh'hab](/source/Madh'hab)s, the Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki, and Shafi'i, were established around the teachings of [Abū Ḥanīfa](/source/Ab%C5%AB_%E1%B8%A4an%C4%ABfa), [Ahmad ibn Hanbal](/source/Ahmad_ibn_Hanbal), Malik ibn Anas and [al-Shafi'i](/source/al-Shafi'i). In contrast, the teachings of [Ja'far al-Sadiq](/source/Ja'far_al-Sadiq) formed the [Ja'fari jurisprudence](/source/Ja'fari_jurisprudence). In the 9th century, [Al-Tabari](/source/Al-Tabari) completed the first commentary of the Quran, the ''[Tafsir al-Tabari](/source/Tafsir_al-Tabari)'', which became one of the most cited commentaries in Sunni Islam. Some Muslims began questioning the piety of indulgence in worldly life and emphasized poverty, humility, and avoidance of sin based on renunciation of bodily desires. Ascetics such as [Hasan al-Basri](/source/Hasan_al-Basri) inspired a movement that would evolve into ''tasawwuf'' or [Sufism](/source/Sufism).[Omar Hamdan ''Studien zur Kanonisierung des Korantextes: al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrīs Beiträge zur Geschichte des Korans'' Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 2006 {{ISBN|978-3447053495}} pp. 291–292 (German)]}} Greek rationalist philosophy influenced a speculative school of thought known as [Muʿtazila](/source/Mu%CA%BFtazila), who famously advocated the notion of free-will originated by [Wasil ibn Ata](/source/Wasil_ibn_Ata).{{sfnp|Blankinship|2008|p=50}} Caliph [Mamun al Rashid](/source/Mamun_al_Rashid) made it an official creed and unsuccessfully attempted to force this position on the majority.{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=88}} Caliph [Al-Mu'tasim](/source/Al-Mu'tasim) carried out [inquisition](/source/Mihna)s, with the traditionalist [Ahmad ibn Hanbal](/source/Ahmad_ibn_Hanbal) notably refusing to conform to the Muʿtazila idea that the Quran was [created rather than being eternal](/source/Quranic_createdness), which resulted in him being tortured and kept in an unlit prison cell for nearly thirty months.[{{Cite book |last=Doi |first=Abdur Rahman |title=Shariah: The Islamic Law |location=London |publisher=Ta-Ha Publishers |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-907461-38-8 |page=110}}] However, other [schools](/source/Schools_of_Islamic_theology) of [speculative theology](/source/Kalam) – [Māturīdism](/source/Maturidi) founded by [Abu Mansur al-Maturidi](/source/Abu_Mansur_al-Maturidi) and [Ash'ari](/source/Ash'ari) founded by [Al-Ash'ari](/source/Al-Ash'ari) – were more successful in being widely adopted. Philosophers such as [Al-Farabi](/source/Al-Farabi), [Avicenna](/source/Avicenna) and [Averroes](/source/Averroes) sought to harmonize Aristotle's ideas with the teachings of Islam, similar to later [scholasticism](/source/scholasticism) within [Christianity in Europe](/source/Christianity_in_Europe) and [Maimonides](/source/Maimonides)' work within Judaism, while others like [Al-Ghazali](/source/Al-Ghazali) argued against such [syncretism](/source/syncretism) and ultimately prevailed.[{{harvp|Lapidus|2002|p=160}}][{{harvp|Waines|2003|pp=126–127}}]
[[File:Cheshm manuscript.jpg|thumb|The eye, according to [Hunain ibn Ishaq](/source/Hunain_ibn_Ishaq) from a manuscript dated c. 1200]]
This era is sometimes called the "[Islamic Golden Age](/source/Islamic_Golden_Age)".[{{harvp|Holt|Lewis|1977|pp=80, 92, 105}}][{{harvp|Holt|Lambton|Lewis|1977|pp=661–663}}][{{harvp|Lewis|1993|p=84}}][{{Cite journal |last=King |first=David A. |year=1983 |title=The Astronomy of the Mamluks |journal=[Isis](/source/Isis_(journal)) |volume=74 |issue=4 |pages=531–55 |doi=10.1086/353360 |s2cid=144315162 | issn=0021-1753}}][{{cite book |last=Hassan |first=Ahmad Y. |author-link=Ahmad Y. al-Hassan |title=Islam and the Challenge of Modernity |chapter=Factors Behind the Decline of Islamic Science After the Sixteenth Century |editor-last=Al-Attas |editor-first=S. S. |editor-link=Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas |location=Kuala Lumpur |publisher=[International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization](/source/Ibn_Khaldun_International_Institute_of_Advanced_Research) |year=1996 |pages=351–399 |url=http://www.history-science-technology.com/articles/articles%208.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402150434/http://www.history-science-technology.com/articles/articles%208.html |archive-date=2015-04-02 |language=en}}][{{Cite web|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ854295.pdf|title=Contributions of Islamic scholars to the scientific enterprise|access-date=13 December 2022|archive-date=23 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523192533/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ854295.pdf|url-status=live}}][{{Cite web|title=The greatest scientific advances from the Muslim world|website=[TheGuardian.com](/source/TheGuardian.com)|date=February 2010|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/feb/01/islamic-science|access-date=13 December 2022|archive-date=13 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213154451/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/feb/01/islamic-science|url-status=live}}] [Avicenna](/source/Avicenna) was a pioneer in [experimental medicine](/source/Medical_research),[Jacquart, Danielle (2008). "Islamic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Theories and Substances". European Review (Cambridge University Press) 16: 219–227.][David W. Tschanz, MSPH, PhD (August 2003). "Arab Roots of European Medicine", Heart Views 4 (2).] and his ''[The Canon of Medicine](/source/The_Canon_of_Medicine)'' was used as a standard medicinal text in the Islamic world and [Europe](/source/Europe) for centuries. [Rhazes](/source/Rhazes) was the first to identify the diseases [smallpox](/source/smallpox) and [measles](/source/measles).[{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/alrazi.aspx|title=Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes) (c. 865-925)|publisher=sciencemuseum.org.uk|access-date=31 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506072259/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/alrazi.aspx|archive-date=6 May 2015|url-status=dead}}] [Public hospital](/source/Public_hospital)s of the time issued the first medical diplomas to license doctors.[{{Cite journal |last=Alatas |first=Syed Farid |year=2006 |title=From Jami'ah to University: Multiculturalism and Christian–Muslim Dialogue |url=https://zenodo.org/record/29439 |journal=[Current Sociology](/source/Current_Sociology) |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=112–132 |doi=10.1177/0011392106058837 |s2cid=144509355 |access-date=12 September 2019 |archive-date=23 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923024727/https://zenodo.org/record/29439/files/6.1From_Jamiah_to_University.pdf |url-status=live }}][{{Cite book |last=Imamuddin |first=S.M. |title=Muslim Spain 711–1492 AD |publisher=[Brill Publishers](/source/Brill_Publishers) |year=1981 |isbn=978-90-04-06131-6 |page=169}}] Ibn al-Haytham is regarded as the father of the modern [scientific method](/source/scientific_method) and often referred to as the "world's first true scientist", in particular regarding his work in [optics](/source/optics).[{{cite journal |author-link=Gerald J. Toomer|first=G. J. |last=Toomer |jstor=228328 |title=Review Work: Matthias Schramm (1963) ''Ibn Al-Haythams Weg zur Physik'' |journal=Isis |volume=55 |issue=4 |date=Dec 1964 |page=464 |quote=Schramm sums up [Ibn Al-Haytham's] achievement in the development of scientific method.}}][{{Cite news |last=Al-Khalili |first=Jim |date=4 January 2009 |title=The 'first true scientist' |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7810846.stm |access-date=24 September 2013 |archive-date=26 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426041228/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7810846.stm |url-status=live }}][{{Cite journal |last=Gorini |first=Rosanna |date=October 2003 |title=Al-Haytham the man of experience. First steps in the science of vision |journal=Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=53–55 |url=http://www.ishim.net/ishimj/4/10.pdf |access-date=25 September 2008 |archive-date=17 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717022851/http://www.ishim.net/ishimj/4/10.pdf |url-status=live }}] In engineering, the [Banū Mūsā](/source/Ban%C5%AB_M%C5%ABs%C4%81) brothers' [automatic](/source/Automaton) [flute](/source/flute) player is considered to have been the first [programmable machine](/source/Program_(machine)).[{{cite journal |last1=Koetsier |first1=Teun |title=On the prehistory of programmable machines: musical automata, looms, calculators |journal=Mechanism and Machine Theory |date=May 2001 |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=589–603 |doi=10.1016/S0094-114X(01)00005-2 }}] In [mathematics](/source/Islamic_mathematics), the concept of the [algorithm](/source/algorithm) is named after [Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi](/source/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi), who is considered a founder of [algebra](/source/algebra), which is named after his book [''al-jabr''](/source/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calculation_by_Completion_and_Balancing), while others developed the concept of a [function](/source/function_(mathematics)).[{{cite journal |last1=Katz |first1=Victor J. |author1-link=Victor J. Katz |last2=Barton |first2=Bill |title=Stages in the History of Algebra with Implications for Teaching |journal=Educational Studies in Mathematics |date=18 September 2007 |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=185–201 |doi=10.1007/s10649-006-9023-7 |s2cid=120363574 }}] The government paid scientists the equivalent salary of professional athletes today.[{{harvp|Ahmed|2006|pp=23, 42, 84}}] [Guinness World Records](/source/Guinness_World_Records) recognizes the [University of Al Karaouine](/source/University_of_Al_Karaouine), founded in 859, as the world's oldest degree-granting university.[{{Cite book |last=Young |first=Mark |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofwo1998newy |title=The Guinness Book of Records |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofwo1998newy/page/242 242] |publisher=Bantam |isbn=978-0-553-57895-9}}] Many non-Muslims, such as [Christians](/source/Christians), [Jews](/source/Jews) and [Sabians](/source/Sabians),[{{cite book |last=Hill |first=Donald |author-link=Donald Routledge Hill |title=Islamic Science and Engineering |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=1993 |page=4 |isbn=0-7486-0455-3 |language=en}}][{{cite web |last=Brague |first=Rémi |author-link=Rémi Brague |title=Assyrians contributions to the Islamic civilization |url=http://www.christiansofiraq.com/assyriancontributionstotheislamiccivilization.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927015958/http://www.christiansofiraq.com/assyriancontributionstotheislamiccivilization.htm |archive-date=2013-09-27 |website=Christians of Iraq |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}] and the institution known as the [House of Wisdom](/source/House_of_Wisdom) employed [Christian](/source/List_of_Christian_scientists_and_scholars_of_the_medieval_Islamic_world) and [Persian scholars](/source/List_of_pre-modern_Iranian_scientists_and_scholars) to both translate works into Arabic and to develop new knowledge.[{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last1=Meri |editor-first1=Josef W. |editor-link1=Josef W. Meri |editor-last2=Bacharach |editor-first2=Jere L. |editor-link2=Jere L. Bacharach |title=Hadith |encyclopedia=Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia |volume=1 |location=New York |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2006 |page=304 |isbn=978-0415966917 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MypbfKdMePIC&pg=PA304 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024001/https://books.google.com/books?id=MypbfKdMePIC&pg=PA304#v=onepage&q&f=false |archive-date=2023-12-28 |language=en}}][{{cite book|title=The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam|first=Rémi |last=Brague|year= 2009| isbn=9780226070803| page =164|publisher=University of Chicago Press|quote=Neither were there any Muslims among the Ninth-Century translators. Almost all of them were Christians of various Eastern denominations: Jacobites, Melchites, and, above all, Nestorians... A few others were Sabians.}}][{{cite book |last=Saliba |first=George |author-link=George Saliba |title=A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam |location=New York |publisher=[New York University Press](/source/New_York_University_Press) |year=1994 |pages=245, 250, 256–57 |isbn=0-8147-8023-7 |language=en}}]
Soldiers broke away from the Abbasid empire and established their own dynasties, such as the [Tulunid](/source/Tulunid)s in 868 in Egypt[{{cite book|last=Holt|first=Peter Malcolm|author-link=Peter Holt (historian)|title=The Crusader States and Their Neighbours, 1098–1291|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0qLHVGgH7AC&pg=PA8|year=2004|publisher=Pearson Longman|isbn=978-0-582-36931-3|page=6|access-date=2 February 2023|archive-date=28 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024001/https://books.google.com/books?id=A0qLHVGgH7AC&pg=PA8|url-status=live}}] and the [Ghaznavid dynasty](/source/Ghaznavid) in 977 in Central Asia.[{{cite book |title=Islamic Central Asia: an anthology of historical sources |editor-first1=Scott Cameron |editor-last1=Levi |editor-first2=Ron |editor-last2=Sela |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2010 |page=83}}] In this fragmentation came the [Shi'a Century](/source/Shi'a_Century), roughly between 945 and 1055, which saw the rise of the [millennialist](/source/millennialist) [Isma'ili](/source/Isma'ili) Shi'a missionary movement. One Isma'ili group, the [Fatimid dynasty](/source/Fatimid_dynasty), took control of North Africa in the 10th century[Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte "Islamisierung in Zentralasien bis zur Mongolenzeit" Band 10: Zentralasien, 2012, p. 191 (German)] and another Isma'ili group, the [Qarmatians](/source/Qarmatians), sacked Mecca and stole the [Black Stone](/source/Black_Stone), a rock placed within the Kaaba, in their unsuccessful rebellion.[{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Glubb |first=John Bagot |title=Mecca (Saudi Arabia) |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Mecca#ref887188 |access-date=18 September 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=6 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506004706/https://www.britannica.com/place/Mecca#ref887188 |url-status=live }}] Yet another Isma'ili group, the [Buyid dynasty](/source/Buyid_dynasty), conquered Baghdad and turned the Abbasids into a figurehead monarchy. The Sunni Seljuk dynasty campaigned to [reassert Sunni Islam](/source/Sunni_Revival) by promulgating the scholarly opinions of the time, notably with the construction of educational institutions known as [Nizamiyya](/source/Nizamiyya)s, which are associated with al-Ghazali and [Saadi Shirazi](/source/Saadi_Shirazi).[Andreas Graeser ''Zenon von Kition: Positionen u. Probleme'' [Walter de Gruyter](/source/Walter_de_Gruyter) 1975 {{ISBN|978-3-11-004673-1}} p. 260]
The expansion of the Muslim world continued with religious missions converting [Volga Bulgaria](/source/Volga_Bulgaria) to Islam. The [Delhi Sultanate](/source/Delhi_Sultanate) reached deep into the [Indian subcontinent](/source/Indian_subcontinent) and many converted to Islam,{{sfnp|Arnold|1896|pp=227–228}} in particular [low-caste Hindu](/source/Dalit)s whose descendants make up the vast majority of Indian Muslims.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36220329|title=Why are many Indian Muslims seen as untouchable?|publisher=BBCnews|date=10 May 2016|access-date=6 October 2022|archive-date=7 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007024220/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36220329|url-status=live}}] Trade brought many [Muslims to China](/source/Islam_in_China), where they virtually dominated the import and export industry of the [Song dynasty](/source/Song_dynasty).[{{cite web |title=Islam in China |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/china_1.shtml |access-date=10 August 2011 |publisher=BBC |archive-date=22 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122142756/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/china_1.shtml |url-status=live }}] Muslims were recruited as a [governing minority class](/source/Semu) in the [Yuan dynasty](/source/Yuan_dynasty).[{{Cite book|last=Lipman|first=Jonathan Newman|title=Familiar Strangers, a history of Muslims in Northwest China|location=Seattle, WA|publisher=University of Washington Press|year=1997|isbn=978-0-295-97644-0|page=33}}]
=== Pre-modern era (1258 – 18th century) ===
{{Further|Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam}}
[[File:GhazanConversionToIslam.JPG|thumb|right|[Ghazan Khan](/source/Ghazan_Khan), 7{{sup|th}} [Ilkhanate](/source/Ilkhanate) ruler of the [Mongol Empire](/source/Mongol_Empire), converts to Islam. 14th-century depiction]]
Through Muslim trade networks and the activity of Sufi orders,{{sfnp|Arnold|1896|pp=125–258}} Islam spread into new areas[{{cite web |title=The Spread of Islam |url=http://www.yale.edu/yup/pdf/cim6.pdf |access-date=2 November 2013 |archive-date=3 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103220022/http://www.yale.edu/yup/pdf/cim6.pdf |url-status=live }}] and Muslims assimilated into new cultures.
Under the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire), Islam spread to [Southeast Europe](/source/Southeast_Europe).[{{cite web |date=6 May 2008 |title=Ottoman Empire |publisher=Oxford Islamic Studies Online |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1801?_hi=41&_pos=3 |access-date=26 August 2010 |archive-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610093907/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1801?_hi=41 |url-status=dead }}] Conversion to Islam often involved a degree of [syncretism](/source/syncretism),[{{Cite book |title=Islamic and European Expansion |publisher=[Temple University Press](/source/Temple_University_Press) |year=1993 |editor-last=Adas |editor-first=Michael |location=Philadelphia |page=25}}] as illustrated by Muhammad's appearance in [Hindu](/source/Hinduism) folklore.[{{Cite book |last=Metcalf |first=Barbara |title=Islam in South Asia in Practice |publisher=[Princeton University Press](/source/Princeton_University_Press) |year=2009 |page=104}}] Muslim Turks incorporated elements of [Turkish Shamanism beliefs](/source/Tengrism) to Islam.{{efn|"In recent years, the idea of syncretism has been challenged. Given the lack of authority to define or enforce an Orthodox doctrine about Islam, some scholars argue there had no prescribed beliefs, only prescribed practise, in Islam before the 16th century.{{sfnp|Peacock|2019|p=20–22}}}}{{sfnp|Çakmak|2017|pp=1425–1429}} [Muslims in Ming Dynasty China](/source/Islam_during_the_Ming_dynasty) who were descended from earlier immigrants were assimilated, sometimes through laws mandating assimilation,[{{cite book|editor1-last=Farmer|editor1-first=Edward L.|title=Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation: The Reordering of Chinese Society Following the Era of Mongol Rule|date=1995|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9004103910|page=82|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCIjZ7l6TX8C&pg=PA82|access-date=19 February 2023|archive-date=28 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024330/https://books.google.com/books?id=TCIjZ7l6TX8C&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}] by adopting Chinese names and [culture](/source/Chinese_culture) while [Nanjing](/source/Nanjing) became an important centre of Islamic study.[Israeli, Raphael (2002). ''Islam in China''. p. 292. [Lexington Books](/source/Lexington_Books). {{ISBN|0-7391-0375-X}}.][{{Cite book |last=Dillon |first=Michael |year=1999 |title=China's Muslim Hui Community |publisher=Curzon |url=https://archive.org/details/chinasmuslimhuic00dill |isbn=978-0-7007-1026-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/chinasmuslimhuic00dill/page/n62 37] |url-access=registration}}]
Cultural shifts were evident with the decrease in Arab influence after the [Mongol destruction](/source/Mongol_invasions_and_conquests) of the Abbasid Caliphate.[{{harvp|Bulliet|2005|p=497}}] The Muslim Mongol Khanates in [Iran](/source/Ilkhanate) and [Central Asia](/source/Chagatai_Khanate) benefited from increased cross-cultural access to East Asia under [Mongol rule](/source/Pax_Mongolica) and thus flourished and developed more distinctively from Arab influence, such as the [Timurid Renaissance](/source/Timurid_Renaissance) under the [Timurid dynasty](/source/Timurid_dynasty).[{{Cite journal |last=Subtelny |first=Maria Eva |date=November 1988 |title=Socioeconomic Bases of Cultural Patronage under the Later Timurids |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/socioeconomic-bases-of-cultural-patronage-under-the-later-timurids/2A0F3018EE155F23FC4A7F5F25D7DE6D |journal=[International Journal of Middle East Studies](/source/International_Journal_of_Middle_East_Studies) |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=479–505 |doi=10.1017/S0020743800053861 |s2cid=162411014 |access-date=7 November 2016 |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813204329/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/socioeconomic-bases-of-cultural-patronage-under-the-later-timurids/2A0F3018EE155F23FC4A7F5F25D7DE6D |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}] [Nasir al-Din al-Tusi](/source/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi) (1201–1274) proposed the [mathematical model](/source/Tusi_couple) that was later argued to be adopted by [Copernicus](/source/Copernicus) unrevised in his [heliocentric](/source/heliocentrism) model,[{{cite web|date=1999|title=Nasir al-Din al-Tusi|publisher=University of St Andrews|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Tusi_Nasir/|access-date=27 August 2023|archive-date=6 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006055638/http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Tusi_Nasir.html|url-status=live}}] and [Jamshīd al-Kāshī](/source/Jamsh%C4%ABd_al-K%C4%81sh%C4%AB)'s estimate of [pi](/source/pi) would not be surpassed for 180 years.[{{cite web |date=1999 |title=Ghiyath al-Din Jamshid Mas'ud al-Kashi |publisher=University of St Andrews |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Kashi/ |access-date=29 December 2021 |archive-date=4 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104103227/https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Kashi/ |url-status=live }}]
After the introduction of gunpowder weapons, large and centralized Muslim states consolidated around [gunpowder empires](/source/gunpowder_empires), these had been previously splintered amongst various territories. The [caliphate](/source/Ottoman_Caliphate) was claimed by the [Ottoman dynasty](/source/Ottoman_dynasty) of the Ottoman Empire and its claims were strengthened in 1517 as [Selim I](/source/Selim%26nbsp%3BI) became the [ruler of Mecca and Medina](/source/Custodian_of_the_Two_Holy_Mosques).[{{Cite book |last=Drews |first=Robert |url=https://my.vanderbilt.edu/robertdrews/publications/ |title=Coursebook: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, to the Beginnings of Modern Civilization |date=August 2011 |publisher=[Vanderbilt University](/source/Vanderbilt_University) |chapter=Chapter Thirty – "The Ottoman Empire, Judaism, and Eastern Europe to 1648" |chapter-url=https://my.vanderbilt.edu/robertdrews/files/2014/01/Chapter-Thirty.-The-Ottoman-Empire-Judaism-and-Eastern-Europe-to-1648.pdf |access-date=21 April 2020 |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226173808/https://my.vanderbilt.edu/robertdrews/publications/ |url-status=live }}] The Shia [Safavid dynasty](/source/Safavid_dynasty) rose to power in 1501 and later conquered all of Iran.[Peter B. Golden: An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples; In: Osman Karatay, Ankara 2002, p. 321] In South Asia, [Babur](/source/Babur) founded the [Mughal Empire](/source/Mughal_Empire).[{{citation|last=Gilbert|first=Marc Jason|title=South Asia in World History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1dhKDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-066137-3|pages=75|access-date=15 January 2023|archive-date=22 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922031915/https://books.google.com/books?id=1dhKDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|url-status=live}}]
The religion of the centralized states of the gunpowder empires influenced the religious practice of their constituent populations. A [symbiosis](/source/symbiosis) between [Ottoman rulers](/source/list_of_sultans_of_the_Ottoman_Empire) and Sufism strongly influenced Islamic reign by the Ottomans from the beginning. The [Mevlevi Order](/source/Mevlevi_Order) and the [Bektashis](/source/Bektashis) had a close relation to the sultans,[Ga ́bor A ́goston, Bruce Alan Masters ''Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire'' [Infobase Publishing](/source/Infobase_Publishing) 2010 {{ISBN|978-1-4381-1025-7}} p. 540] as Sufi-mystical as well as [heterodox](/source/heterodox) and [syncretic](/source/syncretic) approaches to Islam flourished.[{{Cite book |last=Algar |first=Ayla Esen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fc69BhBDjhwC&q=ottomans+sufism |title=The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey |page=15 |date=1 January 1992 |publisher=[University of California Press](/source/University_of_California_Press) |isbn=978-0-520-07060-8 |access-date=29 April 2020 |via=Google Books |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024414/https://books.google.com/books?id=fc69BhBDjhwC&q=ottomans+sufism#v=snippet&q=ottomans%20sufism&f=false |url-status=live }}] The often forceful [Safavid conversion of Iran](/source/Safavid_conversion_of_Iran_to_Shia_Islam) to the Twelver Shia Islam of the Safavid Empire ensured the final dominance of the [Twelver sect](/source/Twelver) within Shia Islam. Persian migrants to South Asia, as influential bureaucrats and landholders, helped spread Shia Islam, forming some of the largest Shia populations outside Iran.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/conversion-iii|title=CONVERSION To Imami Shiʿism in India|publisher=Iranica Online|language=English|access-date=6 October 2022|archive-date=7 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007024220/https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/conversion-iii|url-status=live}}] [Nader Shah](/source/Nader_Shah), who overthrew the Safavids, attempted to improve relations with Sunnis by propagating the integration of Twelverism into Sunni Islam as a fifth ''madhhab'', called Ja'farism,[{{cite journal |title=Nadir Shah and the Ja 'fari Madhhab Reconsidered |first=Ernest |last=Tucker |journal=Iranian Studies |volume=27 |issue=1–4 |date=1994 |pages=163–179 |doi=10.1080/00210869408701825 |jstor=4310891}}] which failed to gain recognition from the Ottomans.[{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Nāder Shāh |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Iranica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Iranica) |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nader-shah |date=29 March 2006 |first=Ernest |last=Tucker |access-date=9 March 2021 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225103212/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nader-shah%20 |url-status=live }}]
=== Modern era (18th–20th centuries) ===
[[File:Portrait Caliph Abdulmecid II.jpg|thumb|right|[Abdülmecid II](/source/Abd%C3%BClmecid_II), the last Caliph from the [Ottoman dynasty](/source/Ottoman_dynasty).]]
Earlier in the 14th century, [Ibn Taymiyya](/source/Ibn_Taymiyya) promoted a [puritan](/source/puritan)ical form of Islam,[Mary Hawkesworth, Maurice Kogan ''Encyclopedia of Government and Politics: 2-volume set'' [Routledge](/source/Routledge) 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-136-91332-7}} pp. 270–271] rejecting philosophical approaches in favor of simpler theology,[Richard Gauvain ''Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God'' [Routledge](/source/Routledge) 2013 {{ISBN|978-0-7103-1356-0}} p. 6] but his writings only played a marginal role during his lifetime.[{{Cite book |last=Spevack |first=Aaron |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=htx8BAAAQBAJ |title=The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of al-Bajuri |date=2014 |publisher=[SUNY Press](/source/SUNY_Press) |isbn=978-1-4384-5371-2 |pages=129–130 |access-date=10 December 2018 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024415/https://books.google.com/books?id=htx8BAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}] During the 18th century in Arabia, [Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab](/source/Muhammad_ibn_Abd_al-Wahhab), influenced by the works of Ibn Taymiyya and [Ibn al-Qayyim](/source/Ibn_al-Qayyim), founded a movement called [Wahhabi](/source/Wahhabi) to return to what he saw as unadultered Islam.[Donald Quataert ''The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922'' [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) 2005 {{ISBN|978-0-521-83910-5}} p. 50][Ga ́bor A ́goston, Bruce Alan Masters ''Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire'' [Infobase Publishing](/source/Infobase_Publishing) 2010 {{ISBN|978-1-4381-1025-7}} p. 260] He condemned many local Islamic customs, such as visiting the grave of Muhammad or saints, as later [innovations](/source/bidah) and sinful[{{Cite thesis |title=The Emergence of a Scholar from a Garrison Society: A contextual analysis of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhāb's doctrine in the light of the Qur'ān and Hadīth |url=https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2096/ |publisher=University of Wales Trinity Saint David |date=2022-08-23 |degree=masters |language=en |first=Shahajada Md |last=Musa |access-date=19 December 2023 |archive-date=2 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502100026/https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2096/ |url-status=live }}] and destroyed sacred rocks and trees, Sufi shrines, the [tombs of Muhammad and his companions](/source/Destruction_of_early_Islamic_heritage_sites_in_Saudi_Arabia) and the tomb of Husayn at Karbala, a major Shia pilgrimage site.[{{Cite news |date=4 September 2013 |title=Graves desecrated in Mizdah |work=[Libya Herald](/source/Libya_Herald) |url=http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/09/04/graves-desecrated-in-mizdah/#axzz2jWG0vDDO |access-date=2 November 2013 |archive-date=3 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103172759/http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/09/04/graves-desecrated-in-mizdah/#axzz2jWG0vDDO |url-status=live }}]{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=146}} He formed an alliance with the [Saud family](/source/House_of_Saud), which, by the 1920s, completed their conquest of the area that would become [Saudi Arabia](/source/Saudi_Arabia).[Nicolas Laos ''The Metaphysics of World Order: A Synthesis of Philosophy, Theology, and Politics'' [Wipf and Stock](/source/Wipf_and_Stock) Publishers 2015 {{ISBN|978-1-4982-0102-5}} p. 177] [Ma Wanfu](/source/Ma_Wanfu) and Ma Debao promoted salafist movements in the 19th century such as [Sailaifengye](/source/Sailaifengye) in China after returning from Mecca but were eventually persecuted and forced into hiding by Sufi groups.[{{cite book|first=Barry M.|last=Rubin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEih57-GWQQC&pg=PA79|page=79|title=Guide to Islamist Movements|year=2000|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=0-7656-1747-1|access-date=28 June 2010|archive-date=28 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024259/https://books.google.com/books?id=wEih57-GWQQC&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}] Other groups sought to reform Sufism rather than reject it, with the [Senusiyya](/source/Senusiyya) and [Muhammad Ahmad](/source/Muhammad_Ahmad) both waging war and establishing states in Libya and Sudan respectively.{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=147}}{{Page needed|date=June 2025}} In India, [Shah Waliullah Dehlawi](/source/Shah_Waliullah_Dehlawi) attempted a more conciliatory style against Sufism and influenced the [Deobandi](/source/Deobandi) movement.{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=149}} In response to the Deobandi movement, the [Barelwi](/source/Barelwi) movement was founded as a mass movement, defending popular [Sufism](/source/Sufism) and reforming its practices.[{{Cite book |last=Robert L. Canfield |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3JhKNSk8tQC&pg=PAPA131 |title=Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective |date=2002 |publisher=[Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) |isbn=978-0-521-52291-5 |pages=131– |access-date=1 December 2018 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024259/https://books.google.com/books?id=g3JhKNSk8tQC&pg=PAPA131#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}][{{Cite journal |last=Sanyal |first=Usha |date=23 July 1998 |title=Generational Changes in the Leadership of the Ahl-e Sunnat Movement in North India during the twentieth Century |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/generational-changes-in-the-leadership-of-the-ahle-sunnat-movement-in-north-india-during-the-twentieth-century/8AAAC4CFEFC4F4084731C3964A5CAE84 |journal=[Modern Asian Studies](/source/Modern_Asian_Studies) |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=635–656 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X98003059 |via=Cambridge Core |access-date=23 February 2020 |archive-date=17 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317013822/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/generational-changes-in-the-leadership-of-the-ahle-sunnat-movement-in-north-india-during-the-twentieth-century/8AAAC4CFEFC4F4084731C3964A5CAE84 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}]
The [Muslim world](/source/Muslim_world) was generally in political decline starting the 1800s, especially compared to non-Muslim European powers. Earlier, in the 15th century, the [Reconquista](/source/Reconquista) succeeded in ending the [Muslim presence in Iberia](/source/Taifa). By the 19th century, the British [East India Company](/source/Company_rule_in_India) had formally annexed the [Mughal dynasty](/source/Mughal_dynasty) in India.{{sfnp|Lapidus|2002|pp=358, 378–380, 624}} As a response to [Western Imperialism](/source/Imperialism), many intellectuals sought to [reform Islam](/source/Islamic_revival).[{{cite journal |last=Buzpinar |first=Ş. Tufan |date=March 2007 |title=Celal Nuri's Concepts of Westernization and Religion |journal=Middle Eastern Studies |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=247–258 |doi=10.1080/00263200601114091 |jstor=4284539|s2cid=144461915 }}] [Islamic modernism](/source/Islamic_modernism), initially labelled by Western scholars as [''Salafiyya''](/source/Salafi_movement), embraced modern values and institutions such as [democracy while being scripture oriented](/source/Islam_and_democracy). Notable forerunners in the movement include [Muhammad 'Abduh](/source/Muhammad_Abduh) and [Jamal al-Din al-Afghani](/source/Jamal_al-Din_al-Afghani).[{{Cite book|last=Lauziere|first=Henri|title=The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-231-17550-0|location=New York, Chichester, West Sussex|pages=231–232|quote="Beginning with Louis Massignon in 1919, it is true that Westerners played a leading role in labeling Islamic modernists as Salafis, even though the term was a misnomer. At the time, European and American scholars felt the need for a useful conceptual box to place Muslim figures such as Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, and their epigones, all of whom seemed inclined toward a scripturalist understanding of Islam but proved open to rationalism and Western modernity. They chose to adopt salafiyya—a technical term of theology, which they mistook for a reformist slogan and wrongly associated with all kinds of modernist Muslim intellectuals."}}] [Abul A'la Maududi](/source/Abul_A'la_Maududi) helped influence modern [political Islam](/source/political_Islam).[{{Cite news |date=3 January 2014 |title=Political Islam: A movement in motion |work=[Economist Magazine](/source/Economist_Magazine) |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2014/01/political-islam |access-date=1 January 2014 |archive-date=4 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104032602/http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2014/01/political-islam |url-status=live }}][{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Wilfred Cantwell |title=Islam in Modern History |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1957 |isbn=0-691-03030-8 |page=233 |author-link=Wilfred Cantwell Smith}}] Similar to contemporary [codification](/source/Civil_code), sharia was for the first time partially codified into law in 1869 in the Ottoman Empire's [Mecelle](/source/Mecelle) code.[{{cite web |editor-link=John Esposito |editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John L. |title=Mecelle |work=[The Oxford Dictionary of Islam](/source/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Islam) |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100146176 |url-access=subscription |via=Oxford Islamic Studies Online |access-date=17 August 2023 |archive-date=17 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817003534/https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100146176 |url-status=live }}]
The [Ottoman Empire dissolved](/source/Fall_of_the_Ottoman_Empire) after [World War I](/source/World_War%26nbsp%3BI), the [Ottoman Caliphate](/source/Ottoman_Caliphate) [was abolished in 1924](/source/Abolition_of_the_Caliphate)[{{Cite news |date=29 June – 5 July 2000 |title=New Turkey |work=[Al-Ahram Weekly](/source/Al-Ahram_Weekly) |issue=488 |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/488/chrncls.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=16 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004145229/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/488/chrncls.htm |archive-date=4 October 2010}}] and the subsequent [Sharifian Caliphate](/source/Sharifian_Caliphate) fell quickly,[{{Cite web |last1=الوطن |first1=جريدة |last2=webmaster |date=2020-05-05 |title="مملكة الحجاز".. وقــصـــة الـغــزو المـســلّـــح |url=https://www.al-watan.com/article/230610/NEWS/%C2%AB%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2%C2%BB-%D9%88%D9%82%D9%80%D9%80%D8%B5%D9%80%D9%80%D9%80%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%80%D8%BA%D9%80%D9%80%D8%B2%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%80%D8%B3%D9%80%D9%80%D9%84%D9%91%D9%80%D9%80%D9%80%D8%AD |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=جريدة الوطن |language=ar |archive-date=16 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516230552/https://www.al-watan.com/article/230610/NEWS/%C2%AB%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2%C2%BB-%D9%88%D9%82%D9%80%D9%80%D8%B5%D9%80%D9%80%D9%80%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%80%D8%BA%D9%80%D9%80%D8%B2%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%80%D8%B3%D9%80%D9%80%D9%84%D9%91%D9%80%D9%80%D9%80%D8%AD |url-status=live }}][{{Cite journal |last=Bani Issa |first=Mohammad Saleh |date=2023-11-01 |title=Factors of stability and sustainable development in Jordan in its first centenary 1921–2021 (an analytical descriptive study) |journal=Heliyon |volume=9 |issue=11 |article-number=e20993 |doi=10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20993 |issn=2405-8440 |doi-access=free|pmid=37928029 |pmc=10623165 |bibcode=2023Heliy...920993B }}][{{Cite book |last=والخلفاء |first=قصص الخلافة الإسلامية |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_r-5EAAAQBAJ |title=قصص الخلافة الإسلامية والخلفاء |date=2023-03-31 |publisher=Austin Macauley Publishers |isbn=978-1-3984-9251-6 |language=en |access-date=26 December 2023 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024259/https://books.google.com/books?id=_r-5EAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}] thus leaving Islam without a [Caliph](/source/Caliphate).[{{Cite book |last=Doran |first=Michael |title=Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian power politics and the Palestine question |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford university press |isbn=978-0-19-512361-6 |series=Studies in Middle Eastern history |location=New York Oxford}}][{{Cite book |last=Landau |first=Yaʿaqov M. |title=The politics of Pan-Islam: ideology and organization |date=1994 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-827709-5 |edition=[Rev. and updated] paperback (with additions and corr.) |location=Oxford}}] The [Organisation of Islamic Cooperation](/source/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation) (OIC), consisting of [Muslim-majority countries](/source/Islam_by_country), was established in 1969 after the burning of the [Al-Aqsa Mosque](/source/Qibli_Mosque) in [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem).[{{Cite news |date=26 December 2010 |title=Organization of the Islamic Conference |work=[BBC News](/source/BBC_News) |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/1555062.stm |access-date=24 September 2013 |archive-date=28 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628190335/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/1555062.stm |url-status=live }}]
Contact with industrialized nations brought Muslim populations to new areas through economic migration. Many Muslims migrated as indentured servants (mostly from India and Indonesia) to the Caribbean, forming the largest Muslim populations by percentage in the Americas.{{sfnp|Haddad|Smith|2002|p=271}} Migration from Syria and Lebanon contributed to the [Muslim population in Latin America](/source/Islam_in_Latin_America).[{{Cite book|last=Zabel|first=Darcy|title=Arabs in the Americas: Interdisciplinary Essays on the Arab Diaspora|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2006|isbn=9780820481111|location=Austria|page=5}}] The resulting urbanization and increase in trade in sub-Saharan Africa brought Muslims to settle in new areas and spread their faith,[{{Cite report |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/ |title=The Future of the Global Muslim Population |date=27 January 2011 |publisher=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center) |access-date=27 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209094904/http://www.pewforum.org/The-Future-of-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx |archive-date=9 February 2011 |url-status=live}}] likely doubling its Muslim population between 1869 and 1914.[{{harvp|Bulliet|2005|p=722}}]
=== Contemporary era (20th century–present) ===
[[File:13. Session of the Islamic Summit Conference.jpg|thumb|right|Leaders of Muslim countries during session of the [Islamic Summit Conference](/source/Islamic_Summit_Conference) in Istanbul, Turkey|upright=1.35]]
Forerunners of Islamic modernism influenced Islamist political movements such as the [Muslim Brotherhood](/source/Muslim_Brotherhood) and related parties in the Arab world,[{{Cite news |date=9 August 2011 |title=Are secular forces being squeezed out of Arab Spring? |work=[BBC News](/source/BBC_News) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14447820 |access-date=10 August 2011 |archive-date=4 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104171024/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14447820 |url-status=live }}][{{Cite news |last=Slackman |first=Michael |date=23 December 2008 |title=Jordanian students rebel, embracing conservative Islam |work=[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/world/middleeast/24jordan.html |access-date=15 August 2011 |archive-date=4 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104153440/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/world/middleeast/24jordan.html |url-status=live }}] which performed well in elections following the [Arab Spring](/source/Arab_Spring),[{{Cite news |last=Kirkpatrick |first=David D. |date=3 December 2011 |title=Egypt's vote puts emphasis on split over religious rule |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/middleeast/egypts-vote-propels-islamic-law-into-spotlight.html |access-date=8 December 2011 |archive-date=4 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104153442/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/middleeast/egypts-vote-propels-islamic-law-into-spotlight.html |url-status=live }}] [Jamaat-e-Islami](/source/Jamaat-e-Islami) in South Asia and the [AK Party](/source/Justice_and_Development_Party_(Turkey)), which has democratically been in power in Turkey for decades. In [Iran](/source/Iran), [revolution](/source/Iranian_Revolution) replaced a [secular](/source/secularism) monarchy with an [Islamic state](/source/Islamic_state). Others such as [Sayyid Rashid Rida](/source/Rashid_Rida) broke away from Islamic modernists[{{Cite book|last=Lauziere|first=Henri|title=The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-231-17550-0|location=New York, Chichester, West Sussex|page=237|quote="Prior to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, leading reformers who happened to be Salafi in creed were surprisingly open-minded: although they adhered to neo-Hanbali theology. However, the aftermath of the First World War and the expansion of European colonialism paved the way for a series of shifts in thought and attitude. The experiences of Rida offer many examples... he turned against the Shi'is who dared, with reason, to express doubts about the Saudi-Wahhabi project... . Shi'is were not the only victims: Rida and his associates showed their readiness to turn against fellow Salafis who questioned some of the Wahhabis' religious interpretations."}}] and pushed against embracing what he saw as Western influence.[{{Cite book|last=G. Rabil|first=Robert|title=Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism|publisher=Georgetown University Press|year=2014|isbn=978-1-62616-116-0|location=Washington DC, US|pages=32–33|quote="Western colonialists established in these countries political orders... that, even though not professing enmity to Islam and its institutions, left no role for Islam in society. This caused a crisis among Muslim reformists, who felt betrayed not only by the West but also by those nationalists, many of whom were brought to power by the West... Nothing reflects this crisis more than the ideological transformation of Rashid Rida (1865–1935)... He also revived the works of Ibn Taymiyah by publishing his writings and promoting his ideas. Subsequently, taking note of the cataclysmic events brought about by Western policies in the Muslim world and shocked by the abolition of the caliphate, he transformed into a Muslim intellectual mostly concerned about protecting Muslim culture, identity, and politics from Western influence. He supported a theory that essentially emphasized the necessity of an Islamic state in which the scholars of Islam would have a leading role... Rida was a forerunner of Islamist thought. He apparently intended to provide a theoretical platform for a modern Islamic state. His ideas were later incorporated into the works of Islamic scholars. Significantly, his ideas influenced none other than Hassan al-Bannah, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt... The Muslim Brethren have taken up Rida's Islamic fundamentalism, a right-wing radical movement founded in 1928,.."}}] The group [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant](/source/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant) would even attempt to recreate the modern gold dinar as their monetary system. While some of those who broke away were [quietist](/source/political_quietism_in_Islam), others believed in violence against those opposing them, even against other Muslims.[{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/isis-gold-silver-copper-islamic-dinar-coins |title=Isis to mint own Islamic dinar coins in gold, silver and copper |work=The Guardian |date=21 November 2014 |access-date=31 July 2022 |archive-date=4 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104153442/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/isis-gold-silver-copper-islamic-dinar-coins |url-status=live }}]
In opposition to Islamic political movements, in 20th century Turkey, the military carried out [coups](/source/1997_Turkish_military_memorandum) to oust Islamist governments, and headscarves were legally restricted, as also happened in Tunisia.[{{Cite news |date=29 April 2011 |title=Huge rally for Turkish secularism |work=[BBC News](/source/BBC_News) |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6604643.stm |access-date=6 December 2011 |archive-date=29 May 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529003102/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6604643.stm |url-status=live }}][{{Cite news |last=Saleh |first=Heba |date=15 October 2011 |title=Tunisia moves against headscarves |work=[BBC News](/source/BBC_News) |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6053380.stm |access-date=6 December 2011 |archive-date=29 May 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529003101/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6053380.stm |url-status=live }}] In other places, religious authority was co-opted and is now often seen as puppets of the state. For example, in Saudi Arabia, the state monopolized religious scholarship[{{Cite news |date=28 June 2007 |title=Laying down the law: Islam's authority deficit |newspaper=[The Economist](/source/The_Economist) |url=https://www.economist.com/international/2007/06/28/islams-authority-deficit |access-date=15 August 2011 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306094736/http://www.economist.com/node/9409354?story_id=9409354 |url-status=live }}] and, in Egypt, the state nationalized [Al-Azhar University](/source/Al-Azhar_University), previously an independent voice checking state power.[{{cite book| title = The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought| last1 = Bowering | first1 = Gerhard | last2=Mirza |first2=Mahan |last3=Crone |first3=Patricia| year = 2013 | publisher = Princeton University Press | page=59| isbn = 9780691134840
}}] Salafism was funded in the Middle East for its quietism.[{{cite web |date=18 October 2008 |title=Ultraconservative Islam on rise in Mideast |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27256187 |access-date=24 September 2013 |publisher=[MSNBC](/source/MSNBC) |archive-date=4 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104032423/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27256187/page/2/ |url-status=live }}] Saudi Arabia campaigned against revolutionary Islamist movements in the Middle East, in opposition to Iran.[{{Cite news |last1=Almukhtar |first1=Sarah |last2=Peçanha |first2=Sergio |last3=Wallace |first3=Tim |date=5 January 2016 |title=Behind Stark Political Divisions, a More Complex Map of Sunnis and Shiites |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/04/world/middleeast/sunni-shiite-map-middle-east-iran-saudi-arabia.html |access-date=6 January 2016 |archive-date=4 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104153442/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/04/world/middleeast/sunni-shiite-map-middle-east-iran-saudi-arabia.html |url-status=live }}]
Muslim minorities of various ethnicities have been persecuted as a religious group.[{{cite web |last1=Thames |first1=Knox |title=Why the Persecution of Muslims Should Be on Biden's Agenda |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/muslims-islam-china-india-myanmar-persecution-repression-biden-human-rights/ |work=[Foreign Policy Magazine](/source/Foreign_Policy_Magazine) |date=6 January 2021 |language=English |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-date=11 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211114303/https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/muslims-islam-china-india-myanmar-persecution-repression-biden-human-rights/ |url-status=live }}] This has been undertaken by communist forces like the [Khmer Rouge](/source/Khmer_Rouge), who viewed them as their primary enemy to be exterminated since their religious practice made them stand out from the rest of the population,[{{Cite magazine |last=Perrin |first=Andrew |date=10 October 2003 |title=Weakness in numbers |magazine=[Time](/source/Time_(magazine)) |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,428133,00.html |access-date=24 September 2013 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=24 September 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130924035829/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,428133,00.html |url-status=live }}] the [Chinese Communist Party](/source/Chinese_Communist_Party) in [Xinjiang](/source/Xinjiang_internment_camps)[{{cite web |last1=Beydoun |first1=Khaled A. |title=For China, Islam is a 'mental illness' that needs to be 'cured' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/china-islam-mental-illness-cured-181127135358356.html |publisher=[Al Jazeera](/source/Al_Jazeera_English) |language=English |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210012542/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/china-islam-mental-illness-cured-181127135358356.html |archive-date=10 December 2018 |url-status=live }}] and by nationalist forces such as during the [Bosnian genocide](/source/Bosnian_genocide).[{{cite book |last=Mojzes |first=Paul |title=Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4422-0663-2|page=178}}] Myanmar military's [Tatmadaw](/source/Tatmadaw) targeting of [Rohingya Muslims](/source/Rohingya_people) has been labeled as a crime against humanity by the UN and Amnesty International,[{{cite news |author=Oliver Holmes |date=19 December 2016 |title=Myanmar's Rohingya campaign 'may be crime against humanity' |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/myanmars-rohingya-campaign-may-be-against-humanity |url-status=live |access-date=5 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106013700/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/myanmars-rohingya-campaign-may-be-against-humanity |archive-date=6 January 2017}}][{{Cite web|date=19 December 2016|title=Rohingya abuse may be crimes against humanity: Amnesty|website=Al Jazeera|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/19/rohingya-abuse-may-be-crimes-against-humanity-amnesty/|access-date=2023-02-21|archive-date=22 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922232529/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/19/rohingya-abuse-may-be-crimes-against-humanity-amnesty/|url-status=live}}] while the [OHCHR](/source/Office_of_the_United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Human_Rights) Fact-Finding Mission identified [genocide](/source/Rohingya_genocide), ethnic cleansing, and other crimes against humanity.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/MyanmarFFM/Pages/ReportoftheMyanmarFFM.aspx|title=Report of Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar |date=27 August 2018|website=ohchr.org|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019232309/https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/MyanmarFFM/Pages/ReportoftheMyanmarFFM.aspx|archive-date=19 October 2018|url-status=live}}]
The advancement of global communication has facilitated the widespread dissemination of religious knowledge. The adoption of the [hijab](/source/hijab) has grown more common[{{Cite news |last=Slackman |first=Michael |date=28 January 2007 |title=In Egypt, a new battle begins over the veil |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/weekinreview/28slackman.html |access-date=15 August 2011 |archive-date=3 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503150409/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/weekinreview/28slackman.html |url-status=live }}] and some Muslim intellectuals are increasingly striving to separate scriptural Islamic beliefs from cultural traditions.{{sfnp|Nigosian|2004|p=41}} Among other groups, this access to information has led to the rise of popular "[televangelist](/source/televangelist)" preachers, such as [Amr Khaled](/source/Amr_Khaled), who compete with the traditional [ulema](/source/ulema) in their reach and have decentralized religious authority.[{{Cite news|last=|first=|title=Islamic televangelist; holy smoke|agency=[The Economist](/source/The_Economist)|url=https://www.economist.com/international/2011/10/29/holy-smoke|access-date=5 February 2022|archive-date=4 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904164441/http://www.economist.com/node/21534763|url-status=live}}]{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=263}} More "individualized" interpretations of Islam[V. Šisler: ''The Internet and the Construction of Islamic Knowledge in Europe'' p. 212] notably involve [Liberal Muslims](/source/Liberal_Muslims) who attempt to align religious traditions with contemporary secular governance,{{sfnp|Esposito|2004|pp=118–119, 179}}{{sfnp|Rippin|2001|p=288}} an approach that has been criticized by some regarding its compatibility.[{{cite book|author1=Adams, Charles J.|editor1-last=Esposito|editor1-first=John L.|title=Voices of Resurgent Islam|url=https://archive.org/details/voicesofresurgen00hcen|url-access=registration|date=1983|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/voicesofresurgen00hcen/page/113 113–4] |chapter=Maududi and the Islamic State|quote=[Maududi believed that] when religion is relegated to the personal realm, men inevitably give way to their bestial impulses and perpetrate evil upon one another. In fact it is precisely because they wish to escape the restraints of morality and the divine guidance that men espouse secularism.}}][{{Cite web|last=Meisami|first=Sayeh|date=2013|title='Abdolkarim Soroush |url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0034.xml|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-12 |website=Oxford Bibliographies|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105164410/http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0034.xml |archive-date=2013-11-05 }}] Moreover, secularism is perceived as a foreign ideology imposed by invaders and perpetuated by post-colonial [ruling elites](/source/Ruling_class),[{{cite encyclopedia|title=Secularism, State Neutrality, and Islam|author=Abdullah Saeed|encyclopedia=The Oxford Handbook of Secularism|editor1=Phil Zuckerman|editor2=John R. Shook |url=http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/abstract/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199988457-e-12|year=2017|page=188 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.013.12|isbn=978-0-19-998845-7|access-date=7 August 2023|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903020955/https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/abstract/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199988457-e-12|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}] and is frequently understood to be equivalent to [anti-religion](/source/Antireligion).[{{cite encyclopedia|author=Nader Hashemi|title=Secularism|encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World|editor=John L. Esposito|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|year=2009|isbn=978-0-19-530513-5 |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195305135.001.0001/acref-9780195305135-e-0714|access-date=7 August 2023|archive-date=6 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206153300/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195305135.001.0001/acref-9780195305135-e-0714|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}]
== Demographics ==
{{Main|Muslim world|Ummah}}
{{See also|Islam by country|Muslim population growth}}
thumb|Global percentage of adherents by religion. Muslims comprise about 25.6% of the world's population, a slightly smaller percentage than Christians.[{{cite web |last1=Hackett |first1=Conrad |last2=Stonawski |first2=Marcin |last3=Tong |first3=Yunping |last4=Kramer |first4=Stephanie |last5=Shi |first5=Anne |last6=Fahmy |first6=Dalia |title=How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020 |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/06/09/how-the-global-religious-landscape-changed-from-2010-to-2020/ |publisher=Pew Research Center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260222070137/https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/06/09/how-the-global-religious-landscape-changed-from-2010-to-2020/ |archive-date=22 February 2026 |date=9 June 2025 |url-status=live |quote=Source: Pew Research Center estimates based on more than 2,700 censuses and surveys. "How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020"}}]
thumb|upright=1.35|World percentage of Muslims by country (2010)[{{Cite web |title=Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2050 |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/interactives/religious-composition-by-country-2010-2050/ |access-date=2024-03-09 |website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project |date=21 December 2022 |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128120036/https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/interactives/religious-composition-by-country-2010-2050/ |url-status=live}}][{{Cite web |date=21 December 2022 |title=Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project - Research and data from Pew Research Center |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/religion/religious-demographics/pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-project/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205195540/https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/religion/religious-demographics/pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-project/ |archive-date=5 February 2023 |access-date=27 November 2023}}][{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/|title=The Future of the Global Muslim Population|date=27 January 2011|access-date=26 October 2022|archive-date=30 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930233955/https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/|url-status=live}}][{{cite web | url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/09/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/ | title=Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world | date=9 August 2017 | access-date=19 December 2022 | archive-date=8 November 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108121140/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/09/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/ | url-status=live }}][{{cite web |last1=Lipka |first1=Michael |last2=Hackett |first2=Conrad |author-link2=Conrad Hackett |title=Why Muslims are the world's fastest-growing religious group |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/06/why-muslims-are-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religious-group/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514123559/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/06/why-muslims-are-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religious-group/ |archive-date=2019-05-14 |website=Fact Tank |publisher=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center) |date=2017-04-06 |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}] In 1900, this estimate was 12.3%,[{{cite book |last1=Barrett |first1=David B. |last2=Kurian |first2=George T. |last3=Johnson |first3=Todd M. |title=World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World |volume=1: The World by Countries: Religionists, Churches, Ministries |edition=2nd |location=New York |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=2001 |page=4 |isbn=978-0195079630 |language=en}}] in 1990 it was 19.9%[{{Cite web |author1=Conrad Hackett|author2=Marcin Stonawski|author3=Yunping Tong|author4=Stephanie Kramer|author5=Anne Shi|author6=Dalia Fahmy |date=2025-06-09 |title=How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020 |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/06/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_report.pdf|access-date=2025-06-10 |website=Pew Research Center |page=9|quote=Increases in the global Muslim population are largely due to Muslims having a relatively young age structure and high fertility rate, two characteristics that result in natural population growth.}}]{{rp|9}} According to the 2020 population estimate, 65% of the Muslim population is concentrated in ten countries, with the largest populations residing in [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan), [India](/source/India), [Bangladesh](/source/Bangladesh), [Nigeria](/source/Nigeria), [Egypt](/source/Egypt), [Iran](/source/Iran), [Turkey](/source/Turkey), [Sudan](/source/Sudan), and [Algeria](/source/Algeria), in descending order. Indonesia is home to over 230,000,000 Muslims, Pakistan over 220,000,000, India over 210,000,000, Bangladesh over 150,000,000, Nigeria over 110,000,000, Egypt over 100,000,000, Iran and Turkey each over 80,000,000, and Sudan and Algeria each over 40,000,000.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/06/09/muslim-population-change/|title=How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020: 3. Muslim population change|date=9 June 2025|access-date=12 February 2026|website=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center)}}]
Pew Research estimates that 87–90% of Muslims are Sunni and 10–13% are Shia.{{sfnp|Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life|2009|p=1|ps=. "Of the total Muslim population, 10–13% are Shia Muslims and 87–90% are Sunni Muslims."}}[See
* {{cite encyclopedia |title=Shiʿi |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shii |access-date=2019-09-30 |date=2019-10-04 |quote=In the early 21st century some 10–13 percent of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims were Shiʿi. }}
* {{Cite news |date=2011-12-06 |title=Sunnis and Shia: Islam's ancient schism |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-16047709 |access-date=2025-11-30 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |quote=Shia constitute about 10% of all Muslims, and globally their population is estimated at between 154 and 200 million. }}
* {{Cite news |title=Understanding the branches of Islam: Shia Islam |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2016)573914 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901052114/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2016)573914 |archive-date=1 September 2022 |access-date=2025-11-30 |work=[European Parliament](/source/European_Parliament) |language=en |quote=Shiite Muslims – estimated to make up 10-13% of the global Muslim population |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |date=7 October 2009 |title=Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/ |access-date=24 September 2013 |work=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center) |quote=The Pew Forum's estimate of the Shia population (10–13%) is in keeping with previous estimates, which generally have been in the range of 10–15%. Some previous estimates, however, have placed the number of Shias at nearly 20% of the world's Muslim population. }}
* {{cite web |title=Shia |url=http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/shi-a |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215070956/http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/shi-a |archive-date=15 December 2012 |access-date=5 December 2011 |publisher=Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs |quote=Shi'a Islam is the second largest branch of the tradition, with up to 200 million followers who comprise around 15% of all Muslims worldwide... }}][* {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780761479260 |title=Islamic Beliefs, Practices, and Cultures |publisher=Marshall Cavendish Reference |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-7614-7926-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780761479260/page/130 130] |quote=Within the Muslim community, the percentage of Sunnis is generally thought to be between 85 percent, with the Shia accounting for 15.5 percent and with the wahabis controlling 5 percent, although some sources estimate their numbers at 20 percent. A common compromise figure ranks Sunnis at 90 percent and Shias at 10 percent. |access-date=2019-11-30 |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite web |date=2009-10-07 |title=Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2009/10/07/mapping-the-global-muslim-population/ |access-date=2019-11-30 |work=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center) |quote=Of the total Muslim population, 10–13% are Shia Muslims and 87–90% are Sunni Muslims.}}
* {{cite news |date=2011-12-06 |title=Quick guide: Sunnis and Shias |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16047709 |access-date=2019-11-30 |work=BBC News |quote=The great majority of the world's more than 1.5 billion Muslims are Sunnis – estimates suggest the figure is somewhere between 85% and 90%.}}
* {{cite book |author=Frederick Denny |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D5_N97bAiJ0C&pg=PA3 |title=Sunni Islam: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-019980647-8 |page=3 |quote=Sunni Islam is the dominant division of the global Muslim community, and throughout history it has made up a substantial majority (85 to 90 percent) of that community.}}
* {{cite web |title=Sunni |url=http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/sunni |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012090751/http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/sunni |archive-date=12 October 2014 |access-date=2019-11-30 |publisher=[Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs](/source/Berkley_Center_for_Religion%2C_Peace%2C_and_World_Affairs) |quote=Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam, comprising about 85 percent of the world's over 1.5 billion Muslims.}}
* {{cite news |date=2007-09-24 |title=Tension between Sunnis, Shiites emerging in USA |url=http://usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-09-24-muslim-tension_N.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713014245/http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-09-24-muslim-tension_N.htm |archive-date=13 July 2012 |access-date=2019-11-30 |publisher=[USA Today](/source/USA_Today) |quote=Among the world's estimated 1.4 billion Muslims, about 85% are Sunni and about 15% are Shiite.}}
* {{cite book |author=Riaz Hassan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4Ts0GkJBKgC&pg=PA20 |title=Inside Muslim Minds |publisher=Melbourne University Press |year=2008 |isbn=9780522854817 |page=20 |quote=Approximately 20 per cent of the world's Muslims belong to the Shi'ah sect; around 80 per cent are Sunni Muslims.}}
*{{cite book |last=Webber |first=Robert E. |author-link=Robert E. Webber |title=Who Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals |location=Downers Grove, Illinois |publisher=InterVarsity Press |year=2009 |page=103 |isbn=978-0830834884 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3w_ngX--ji4C&pg=PA103 |quote=The Sunnis (approximately 80%) |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last=Reat |first=N. Ross |author-link=Noble Ross Reat |title=A World Theology: The Central Spiritual Reality of Humankind |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1991 |page=265 |isbn=978-0521401340 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vD2TJNc7NE4C&pg=PA265 |quote=80% being the Sunni |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last=Inam-ul-Haq |first= |title=Islam and the Kadiyani Jama'at |location=Chicago |publisher=Kazi Publications |year=1994 |page=32 |isbn=978-1567444742 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q78O1mjX2tMC&pg=PA32 |quote=The Sunni segment, accounting for at least 80% of the worlds Muslim population |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}
* {{cite book |author=David Robertson |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmode0000robe |title=A Dictionary of Modern Politics |publisher=Europa Publications |year=2002 |isbn=1-85743-093-X |edition=Third |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmode0000robe/page/252 252] |quote=It is notable that while a large majority, probably 80%, of the world's Muslims are Sunni... |url-access=registration}}] Approximately 49 countries are [Muslim-majority](/source/List_of_Muslim_majority_countries),{{sfnp|Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life|2009|p=11}}[{{Cite book |last1=Ba-Yunus |first1=Ilyas |title=Muslims in the United States |last2=Kone, Kassim |publisher=[Greenwood Publishing](/source/Greenwood_Publishing) Group |year=2006 |page=[https://archive.org/details/muslimsunitedsta00bayu/page/n186 172] |url=https://archive.org/details/muslimsunitedsta00bayu |url-access=registration |isbn=978-0-313-32825-1}}][{{cite report |author=[The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life](/source/Pew_Forum) |title=The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups as of 2010 |url=https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2014/01/global-religion-full.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323215026/http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2014/01/global-religion-full.pdf |archive-date=2018-03-23 |date=December 2012 |publisher=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center) |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}][{{cite web |date=7 March 2018 |title=Islam in Russia |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/3/7/islam-in-russia/ |access-date=15 June 2021 |website=[Al Jazeera](/source/Al_Jazeera_English) |publisher=[Anadolu News Agency](/source/Anadolu_Agency) |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024349/https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2018/3/7/islam-in-russia |url-status=live }}][{{Citation |title=Book review: Russia's Muslim Heartlands reveals diverse population |date=21 April 2018 |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/book-review-russia-s-muslim-heartlands-reveals-diverse-population-1.723230 |work=[The National](/source/The_National_(Abu_Dhabi)) |access-date=13 January 2019 |archive-date=14 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114210257/https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/book-review-russia-s-muslim-heartlands-reveals-diverse-population-1.723230 |url-status=live }}] with 62% of the world's Muslims living in Asia, and 683 million adherents in [Indonesia](/source/Islam_in_Indonesia),[{{cite web |title=10 Countries With the Largest Muslim Populations, 2010 and 2050 |url=https://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/muslims/pf_15-04-02_projectionstables74/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207115222/http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/muslims/pf_15-04-02_projectionstables74/ |archive-date=2017-02-07 |website=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center) |publisher=Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life |date=2015-04-02 |type=Projections table |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}] [Pakistan](/source/Islam_in_Pakistan), [India](/source/Islam_in_India), and [Bangladesh](/source/Islam_in_Bangladesh) alone.[{{cite web |title=Secrets of Islam |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/graphics/religion/islams_global_reach.htm |access-date=24 September 2013 |website=[U.S. News & World Report](/source/U.S._News_%26_World_Report) |archive-date=22 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122200555/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/graphics/religion/islams_global_reach.htm |url-status=live }} Information provided by the International Population Center, Department of Geography, [San Diego State University](/source/San_Diego_State_University) (2005).]{{sfnp|Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life|2009|pp=15, 17}}[{{Cite book |last1=Pechilis |first1=Karen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kaubzRxh-U0C |title=South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today |last2=Raj |first2=Selva J. |date=2013 |publisher=[Routledge](/source/Routledge) |isbn=978-0-415-44851-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=kaubzRxh-U0C&pg=PA193 193] |access-date=3 May 2019 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024331/https://books.google.com/books?id=kaubzRxh-U0C |url-status=live }}] [Arab Muslims](/source/Arab_Muslims) form the [largest ethnic group among Muslims](/source/List_of_contemporary_ethnic_groups) in the world,[{{cite book |last=Nydell |first=Margaret Kleffner |title=Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times |edition=4th |location=Yarmouth, Maine |publisher=Intercultural Press |year=2005 |pages=xxiii, 14 |isbn=978-1931930253 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNoiieefqAcC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024737/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNoiieefqAcC |archive-date=2023-12-28 |language=en}}] followed by [Bengalis](/source/Bengali_Muslims)[{{cite book|author=Richard Eaton|editor=Barbara D. Metcalf|title=Islam in South Asia in Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pR0LzVCpfw8C|date=8 September 2009|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-3138-8|page=275|chapter=Forest Clearing and the Growth of Islam in Bengal}}][{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haGORCJRlOUC&pg=PA50 |title=The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics |author1=Meghna Guhathakurta |author2=Willem van Schendel |page=50 |date=30 April 2013 |publisher=Duke University Press |access-date=7 November 2016 |isbn=978-0822353188 |archive-date=7 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707092408/https://books.google.com/books?id=haGORCJRlOUC&pg=PA50 |url-status=live }}] and [Punjabis](/source/Punjabi_Muslims).[{{cite book|last=Gandhi|first=Rajmohan|title=Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten|year=2013|page=1|publisher=Aleph Book Company|location=New Delhi, India, Urbana, [Illinois](/source/Illinois)|isbn=978-93-83064-41-0}}.] Most estimates indicate [China](/source/Islam_in_China) has approximately 20 to 30 million Muslims (1.5% to 2% of the population).[{{cite web |work=[The World Factbook](/source/The_World_Factbook) |title=Explore All Countries – China |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/china/ |access-date=15 September 2009 |publisher=[Central Intelligence Agency](/source/Central_Intelligence_Agency) |archive-date=13 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213122152/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/china/ |url-status=dead }}][{{cite web |title=China (includes Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet) |website=Archived Content |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2006/71338.htm |access-date=24 September 2013 |publisher=U.S. Department of State |archive-date=10 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710075050/https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2006/71338.htm |url-status=live }}] [Islam in Europe](/source/Islam_in_Europe) is the second-largest religion after [Christianity](/source/Christianity) in many countries, with growth rates due primarily to immigration and higher birth rates of Muslims in 2005,[{{Cite news |date=23 December 2005 |title=Muslims in Europe: Country guide |work=[BBC News](/source/BBC_News) |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4385768.stm |access-date=1 April 2010 |archive-date=29 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090929213440/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4385768.stm |url-status=live }}] accounting for 4.9% of all of Europe's population in 2016.[{{citation|url=http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/29/5-facts-about-the-muslim-population-in-europe/|title=5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe|date=November 29, 2017|work=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center)|first=Conrad|last=Hackett|access-date=17 January 2023|archive-date=5 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105202657/http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/29/5-facts-about-the-muslim-population-in-europe/|url-status=live}}]
According to the Pew Research Center, [conversion to Islam](/source/conversion_to_Islam) has no major net impact on the Muslim population growth as "the number of people who [become Muslims through conversion](/source/convert_to_Islam) seems to be roughly equal to the number of Muslims who leave the faith."[{{Cite report |title=The Future of the Global Muslim Population |section=Conversion |date=27 January 2011 |publisher=Pew Research Center |section-url=https://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/future-of-the-global-muslim-population-related-factors/#conversion |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/ |quote=there is no substantial net gain or loss in the number of Muslims through conversion globally; the number of people who become Muslims through conversion seems to be roughly equal to the number of Muslims who leave the faith |access-date=12 May 2020 |archive-date=24 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224211126/http://www.pewforum.org/2011/01/27/the-future-of-the-global-muslim-population/ |url-status=live }}] Although, Islam is expected to experience a modest gain of 3 million through religious conversion between 2010 and 2050, mostly from [Sub Saharan Africa](/source/Sub_Saharan_Africa) (2.9 million).[{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/03/PF_15.04.02_ProjectionsFullReport.pdf|title=Cumulative Change Due to Religious Switching, 2010–2050, p.43|access-date=4 May 2016|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150429153811/http://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/03/PF_15.04.02_ProjectionsFullReport.pdf|archive-date=29 April 2015|url-status=dead}}][{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-religious-landscape/|title=The Changing Global Religious Landscape|work=Pew Research Center|date=5 April 2017|access-date=17 December 2022|archive-date=18 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218030628/https://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-religious-landscape/|url-status=live}}] According to a 2020 Pew study, about 1% of adults raised Muslim leave the faith, while an equal proportion —about 1%— convert to Islam from other religions, resulting in low levels of religious switching both into and out of Islam.[{{Cite web |author1=Conrad Hackett|author2=Marcin Stonawski|author3=Yunping Tong|author4=Stephanie Kramer|author5=Anne Shi|author6=Dalia Fahmy |date=2025-06-09 |title=How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020 |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/06/PR_2025.06.09_global-religious-change_report.pdf|access-date=2025-06-10 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US|page=39|quote=Muslims and Hindus have been the least likely to gain or lose adherents from religious switching. About one in every 100 adults raised Muslim (or Hindu) has left their childhood religion, and a similar number from a different religious category have switched into Islam (or Hinduism).}}] [Ex-Muslims](/source/Ex-Muslims) are more likely to convert to another religion than to become irreligious.[{{cite news|title=Fast-growing Islam winning converts in Western world|publisher=[CNN](/source/CNN)|url=http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/14/egypt.islam/|access-date=6 May 2016|archive-date=15 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015114027/http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/14/egypt.islam/|url-status=dead}}] [In Britain](/source/Islam_in_Britain), around 6,000 people convert to Islam per year and, according to an article in the British Muslims Monthly Survey, the majority of new Muslim converts in Britain were women.[{{cite web |url=http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/bmms/2000/06June00.asp#Women%20convert |title=British Muslims Monthly Survey for June 2000, Vol. VIII, No. 6 |at=Women convert |access-date=2020-09-28 |archive-date=2008-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214160750/http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/bmms/2000/06June00.asp#Women%20convert |url-status=live }}] According to ''The Huffington Post'', "observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually", most of them being [women](/source/Women_in_Islam) and [African-Americans](/source/African-American_Muslims).[{{Cite web|date=2011-08-24|title=Conversion To Islam One Result Of Post-9/11 Curiosity|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post-911-islam-converts_n_935572|access-date=2020-11-26|website=HuffPost|language=en|archive-date=2021-01-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111201117/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post-911-islam-converts_n_935572|url-status=live}}][{{cite web|author-first=Julie|author-last=Bindel|author-link=Julie Bindel|title=Why do Western Women Convert?|url=http://standpointmag.co.uk/features-may-10-why-do-western-women-convert-julie-bindel-islam-female-conversion|access-date=8 May 2016|work=[Standpoint](/source/Standpoint_(magazine))|date=26 April 2010|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006102003/http://standpointmag.co.uk/features-may-10-why-do-western-women-convert-julie-bindel-islam-female-conversion|url-status=live}}]
By both percentage and total numbers, Islam is the world's fastest growing major religious group, and is projected to be the world's largest by the end of the 21st century, surpassing that of [Christianity](/source/Christianity).[{{Cite web |last1=Lipka |first1=Michael |last2=Hackett |first2=Conrad |date=April 6, 2017 |title=Why Muslims are the world's fastest-growing religious group |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/06/why-muslims-are-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religious-group/ |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US |archive-date=14 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514123559/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/06/why-muslims-are-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religious-group/ |url-status=live }}][{{cite report |author=[The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life](/source/Pew_Forum) |title=The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010–2050 |url=https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2015/03/PF_15.04.02_ProjectionsFullReport.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211090450/http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2015/03/PF_15.04.02_ProjectionsFullReport.pdf |archive-date=2020-12-11 |date=2015-04-02 |publisher=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center) |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2026-03-20 |language=en}}]{{rp|70}}
==Main branches or denominations==
{{Main|Islamic schools and branches#Main branches or denominations}}
{{See also|Shia–Sunni relations}}
=== Sunni ===
{{Main|Sunni Islam}}
[[File:Sahih Al-Bukhari in English.png|thumb|right|The nine volumes of [Sahih Al-Bukhari](/source/Sahih_Al-Bukhari), one of the [six Sunni hadith books](/source/Al-Kutub_Al-Sittah)]]
Sunni Islam, or Sunnism, is the name for the largest denomination in Islam.[{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sunni |title=Sunni |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=17 September 2021 |archive-date=30 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430101807/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/574006/Sunnite |url-status=live }}][{{cite encyclopedia |title=Sunni Islam |editor-first=John L. |editor-last=Esposito |encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2014 |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e2280 |access-date=10 January 2010 |archive-date=5 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005013247/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e2280 |url-status=dead }}][{{cite book |last=Denny |first=Frederick |author-link=Frederick M. Denny |title=Sunni Islam: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide |location=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=2010 |page=3 |isbn=978-0199804153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D5_N97bAiJ0C&pg=PA3 |quote=Sunni Islam is the dominant division of the global Muslim community, and throughout history it has made up a substantial majority (85 to 90%) of that community. |language=en}}][{{cite book |last1=Lawson |first1=Russell M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_krEEAAAQBAJ&dq=islam+based+on+the+teachings+of+muhammad&pg=PA419 |title=Science in the Ancient World: From Antiquity through the Middle Ages |date=23 September 2021 |publisher=[ABC-CLIO](/source/ABC-CLIO) |isbn=978-1-4408-7353-9 |page=419 |language=en}}] The term is a contraction of the phrase "ahl as-sunna wa al-jama'at", which means "people of the [sunna](/source/Sunnah) (the traditions of Muhammad) and the community".[{{cite encyclopedia |title=Ahl as-Sunnah |encyclopedia=[Islam Ansiklopedisi](/source/Islam_Ansiklopedisi) |publisher=Turkish Diyanet Foundation |location=Istanbul |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ehl-i-sunnet |last=Yavuz |first=Yusuf Şevki |date=1994 |volume=10 |pages=525–530 |lang=tr |access-date=28 December 2021 |archive-date=28 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228114411/https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ehl-i-sunnet |url-status=live }}] Sunni Islam is sometimes referred to as "orthodox Islam",[{{cite book |author1=John Richard Thackrah |title=Dictionary of Terrorism |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1135165956 |edition=2, revised |page=252}}][{{cite book |title=The Status of Women Under Islamic Law and Modern Islamic Legislation |date=2009 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-9004172739 |editor1-last=Nasir |editor1-first=Jamal J. |edition=revised |page=11}}][{{cite book |author1=George W. Braswell |title=What You Need to Know about Islam & Muslims |date=2000 |publisher=B&H Publishing Group |isbn=978-0805418293 |edition=illustrated |page=62}}] though some scholars view this as inappropriate, and many non-Sunnis may find this offensive.[An Introduction to the Hadith. John Burton. Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1996. p. 201. Cite: "Sunni: Of or pertaining ''sunna'', especially the ''Sunna'' of the Prophet. Used in conscious opposition to Shi'a, Shi'í. There being no ecclesia or centralized magisterium, the translation 'orthodox' is inappropriate. To the Muslim 'unorthodox' implies heretical, ''mubtadi'', from ''bid'a'', the contrary of ''sunna'' and so 'innovation'."] Sunnis, or sometimes Sunnites, believe that the first four caliphs were the rightful successors to Muhammad and primarily reference [six major hadith works](/source/Al-Kutub_Al-Sittah) for legal matters, while following one of the four traditional schools of jurisprudence: [Hanafi](/source/Hanafi), [Hanbali](/source/Hanbali), [Maliki](/source/Maliki) or [Shafi'i](/source/Shafi'i).[{{cite web |title=sharia |url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/sharia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122164555/https://www.lexico.com/definition/sharia |archive-date=22 January 2020 |website=Lexico |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |url-status=dead}}][{{harvp|Esposito|2003|pp=275, 306}}]
[Traditionalist theology](/source/Traditionalist_theology_(Islam)) is a Sunni school of thought, prominently advocated by [Ahmad ibn Hanbal](/source/Ahmad_ibn_Hanbal) (780–855 CE), that is characterized by its adherence to a [textualist](/source/Textualism) understanding of the Quran and the sunnah, the belief that the Quran is uncreated and eternal, and opposition to speculative theology, called [kalam](/source/kalam), in religious and ethical matters.[Hadi Enayat ''Islam and Secularism in Post-Colonial Thought: A Cartography of Asadian Genealogies'' [Springer Publishing](/source/Springer_Publishing), 30 June 2017 {{ISBN|978-3-319-52611-9}} p.48] [Maturidism](/source/Maturidism), founded by [Abu Mansur al-Maturidi](/source/Abu_Mansur_al-Maturidi) (853–944 CE), asserts that scripture is not needed for basic ethics and that ''good'' and ''evil'' can be understood by reason alone,[Rico Isaacs, Alessandro Frigerio ''Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power'' [Springer Publishing](/source/Springer_Publishing) 2018 {{ISBN|978-3-319-97355-5}} p. 108] but people rely on revelation for matters beyond human comprehension. [Ash'arism](/source/Ash'arism), founded by [Al-Ashʿarī](/source/Al-Ash%CA%BFar%C4%AB) (c. 874–936), holds that ethics can derive just from divine revelation but accepts reason regarding exegetical matters and combines Muʿtazila approaches with traditionalist ideas.{{sfnp|Esposito|1999|p=280}}
[Salafism](/source/Salafism) is a revival movement advocating the return to the practices of the earliest generations of Muslims. In the 18th century, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab led a [Salafi movement](/source/Salafi_movement), referred by outsiders as [Wahhabism](/source/Wahhabism), in modern-day Saudi Arabia.[Richard Gauvain ''Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God'' [Routledge](/source/Routledge) 2013 {{ISBN|978-0-7103-1356-0}} page 8] A similar movement called [Ahl al-Hadith](/source/Ahl_al-Hadith) also de-emphasized the centuries' old Sunni legal tradition, preferring to directly follow the Quran and Hadith. The ''[Nurcu](/source/Nur_movement)'' Sunni movement was initiated by [Said Nursi](/source/Said_Nursi) (1877–1960);[Svante E. Cornell ''Azerbaijan Since Independence'' [M.E. Sharpe](/source/M.E._Sharpe) {{ISBN| 9780765630049}} p. 283] it incorporates elements of Sufism and science.[Robert W. Hefner ''Shariʻa Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World'' [Indiana University Press](/source/Indiana_University_Press) 2011 {{ISBN|978-0-253-22310-4}} p. 170]
=== Shia ===
{{Main|Shia Islam}}
[[File:Nahj al-Balagha.jpg|thumb|[Nahj al-balagha](/source/Nahj_al-balagha), collection of sermons, letters, and sayings attributed to [Imam Ali](/source/Ali).]]
Shia Islam is the second-largest Muslim denomination.[{{cite web |title=Field Listing :: Religions |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706231326/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html |archive-date=6 July 2010 |access-date=25 October 2010 |website=[The World Factbook](/source/The_World_Factbook) |publisher=[Central Intelligence Agency](/source/Central_Intelligence_Agency) |quote=Sunni Islam accounts for over 75% of the world's Muslim population." ... "Shia Islam represents 10–15% of Muslims worldwide.}}][{{cite web |title=Sunni |url=https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/sunni |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614103622/https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/sunni |archive-date=14 June 2020 |access-date=24 May 2020 |publisher=[Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs](/source/Berkley_Center_for_Religion%2C_Peace%2C_and_World_Affairs) |quote=Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam, comprising about 85% of the world's over 1.5 billion Muslims.}}]{{sfnp|Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life|2009|p=1|ps=. "Of the total Muslim population, 10–13% are Shia Muslims and 87–90% are Sunni Muslims."}} Shias maintain that Muhammad's [successor](/source/Succession_to_Muhammad) as leader, must be from certain descendants of Muhammad's family known as the [Ahl al-Bayt](/source/Ahl_al-Bayt) and those leaders, referred to as [Imam](/source/Imamate_in_Shia_doctrine)s, have additional spiritual authority.[{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shii|title=Shiʿi|last=Newman|first=Andrew J.|publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=28 December 2021|archive-date=20 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720054917/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shii|url-status=live}}][{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2004 |title=Sunni Islam |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa |publisher=[MacMillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers) Reference |editor-last=Philip Mattar |edition=2nd |author1=Tayeb El-Hibri|author2=Maysam J. al Faruqi}}] Shias are guided by the [Ja'fari school of jurisprudence](/source/Ja'fari_school).[{{Cite book |author1=John Corrigan|author2=Frederick Denny|author3=Martin S Jaffee|author4=Carlos Eire |year=2011 |title=Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions |publisher= Cambridge University Press |id=978-0205026340 }}]
According to both Sunni and Shia Muslims, a significant event took place at [Ghadir Khumm](/source/Ghadir_Khumm) during Muhammad's return from his final pilgrimage to Mecca, where he stopped thousands of Muslims in the midday heat.[{{cite book |title=The Charismatic Community: Shi'ite Identity in Early Islam |author-first=Maria Massi |author-last=Dakake |year=2007 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=9780791470336 |author-link=Maria Massi Dakake}}] Muhammad appointed his cousin [Ali](/source/Ali) as the executor of his last will and testament, as well as his [Wali](/source/Wali) (authority).[{{Cite book|last=Veccia Vaglieri|first=L.|date=2012|title=Encyclopaedia of Islam |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/*-SIM_2439|section=G̲h̲adīr K̲h̲umm|publisher=Brill|access-date=July 14, 2023|isbn=9789004161214|archive-date=14 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714174420/https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/*-SIM_2439|url-status=live}}]{{sfnp|Campo|2009|pp=257–258}} Shias recognize that Muhammad designated Ali as his successor (khalīfa) and [Imam](/source/Imamate_in_Shia_doctrine) (spiritual and political leader) after him, but was prevented from succeeding Muhammad as the leader of the [Muslims](/source/Muslims) because of some [other companions](/source/Companions_of_the_Prophet) who selected [Abū Bakr](/source/Abu_Bakr) as [caliph](/source/Caliphate).[{{cite journal |last=Foody |first=Kathleen |date=September 2015 |title=Interiorizing Islam: Religious Experience and State Oversight in the Islamic Republic of Iran |editor-last=Jain |editor-first=Andrea R. |journal=[Journal of the American Academy of Religion](/source/Journal_of_the_American_Academy_of_Religion) |volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=599–623 |doi=10.1093/jaarel/lfv029 |doi-access=free |location=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) on behalf of the [American Academy of Religion](/source/American_Academy_of_Religion) |eissn=1477-4585 |issn=0002-7189 |jstor=24488178 |lccn=sc76000837 |oclc=1479270 |quote=For Shiʿi Muslims, Muhammad not only designated Ali as his friend, but appointed him as his successor—as the "lord" or "master" of the new Muslim community. Ali and his descendants would become known as the Imams, divinely guided leaders of the Shiʿi communities, sinless, and granted special insight into the Qurʾanic text. The theology of the Imams that developed over the next several centuries made little distinction between the authority of the Imams to politically lead the Muslim community and their spiritual prowess; quite to the contrary, their right to political leadership was grounded in their special spiritual insight. While in theory, the only just ruler of the Muslim community was the Imam, the Imams were politically marginal after the first generation. In practice, Shiʿi Muslims negotiated varied approaches to both interpretative authority over Islamic texts and governance of the community, both during the lifetimes of the Imams themselves and even more so following the disappearance of the twelfth and final Imam in the ninth century.}}] Sunnis, instead believe that Muhammad did not appoint a successor before [his death](/source/Death_of_Muhammad) and consider Abū Bakr to be the first [rightful](/source/Rashidun) caliph after Muhammad.[{{cite journal |last=Foody |first=Kathleen |date=September 2015 |editor-last=Jain |editor-first=Andrea R. |title=Interiorizing Islam: Religious Experience and State Oversight in the Islamic Republic of Iran |journal=[Journal of the American Academy of Religion](/source/Journal_of_the_American_Academy_of_Religion) |location=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) on behalf of the [American Academy of Religion](/source/American_Academy_of_Religion) |volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=599–623 |doi=10.1093/jaarel/lfv029 |issn=0002-7189 |eissn=1477-4585 |jstor=24488178 |lccn=sc76000837 |oclc=1479270 |quote=For Shiʿi Muslims, Muhammad not only designated Ali as his friend, but appointed him as his successor—as the "lord" or "master" of the new Muslim community. Ali and his descendants would become known as the Imams, divinely guided leaders of the Shiʿi communities, sinless, and granted special insight into the Qurʾanic text. The theology of the Imams that developed over the next several centuries made little distinction between the authority of the Imams to politically lead the Muslim community and their spiritual prowess; quite to the contrary, their right to political leadership was grounded in their special spiritual insight. While in theory, the only just ruler of the Muslim community was the Imam, the Imams were politically marginal after the first generation. In practice, Shiʿi Muslims negotiated varied approaches to both interpretative authority over Islamic texts and governance of the community, both during the lifetimes of the Imams themselves and even more so following the disappearance of the twelfth and final Imam in the ninth century. |doi-access=free}}] Shias state the community deliberately ignored Ali's nomination,[{{cite web |last1=Daftary |first1=Farhad |title=A History Of Shi'i Islam |url=https://archive.org/details/shii-heritage-series-farhad-daftary-a-history-of-shii-islam-i.-b.-tauris-2013_202104/mode/2up |website=Internet Archive |access-date=July 22, 2024 |date=2013}}] citing [Umar](/source/Umar)'s appointment by Abu Bakr,[{{cite book |last1=Lalani |first1=Arzina R. |title=Early Shi'i Thought: The Teachings of Imam Muhammad al-Baqir |date=2000 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=1850435928}}] other historical evidence,[{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Amir-Moezzi |author-first=Mohammad Ali |title=Ghadīr Khumm |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam |edition=Third |editor1-first=Kate |editor1-last=Fleet |editor2-first=Gudrun |editor2-last=Krämer |editor3-first=Denis |editor3-last=Matringe |editor4-first=John |editor4-last=Nawas |editor5-first=Devin J. |editor5-last=Stewart |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_27419 |year=2014 |doi=10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_27419 |isbn=9789004269613 |author-link=Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi |url-access=subscription}}] and the [Qur'an](/source/Qur'an)'s stance that majority does not imply legitimacy.[{{Cite book|last=Mavani|first=Hamid|url=https://archive.org/details/religiousauthori0000mava/mode/|title=Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi'ism: From Ali to Post-Khomeini|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=9780415624404|url-access=registration}}]
Some of the first Shia Imams are revered by all Shia and Sunnis Muslims, such as Ali and [Husayn](/source/Husayn_ibn_Ali).[{{Cite book |last=Armajani |first=Jon |title=Shia Islam and Politics: Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon |date=2020 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-1-7936-2136-8 |location=Lanham (Md.) |pages=11}}] [Twelvers](/source/Twelvers), the largest Shia branch and most influential, believe in [Twelve Imams](/source/Twelve_Imams), the last of whom went into [occultation](/source/Occultation_(Islam)) to return one day. They recognize that the prophecy of the Twelve Imams has been foretold in the [Hadith of the Twelve Successors](/source/Hadith_of_the_Twelve_Successors) which is recorded by both Sunni and Shia sources.[{{Cite journal|last=Kohlberg|first=Etan|title=From Imāmiyya to Ithnā-'ashariyya|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/abs/from-imamiyya-to-ithnaashariyya/32F60507F79BEE8C3732011F4D092CAF|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|year=1976|volume=39|issue=3|pages=521–534|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00050989|s2cid=155070530|access-date=July 14, 2023|archive-date=14 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714174420/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/abs/from-imamiyya-to-ithnaashariyya/32F60507F79BEE8C3732011F4D092CAF|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}] [Zaydism](/source/Zaydism) rejects infallibility of Imams and were sometimes regarded a 'fifth school' of Sunni Islam rather than a Shia denomination.[{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social and Military History |editor-first1=Spencer C. |editor-last1=Tucker |editor2=Priscilla Mary Roberts |year=2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-842-2 |page=917 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA917 |access-date=20 June 2015 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024726/https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA917 |url-status=live }}][{{cite book |title=The Iraq Effect: The Middle East After the Iraq War |first=Frederic M. |last=Wehrey |year=2010 |publisher=Rand Corporation |isbn=978-0-8330-4788-5 |page=91 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-3LAlfW7DIC&pg=PA91 |access-date=20 June 2015 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024742/https://books.google.com/books?id=i-3LAlfW7DIC&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}] They differed with other Shias over the status of the fifth imam and are sometimes known as "Fivers".[{{Cite journal |last=Peterson |first=Daniel |title=Zaydiyya |url=|journal=Islamic Studies |year=2011 |language=en |volume= |issue= |pages= |doi=10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0153 |issn=}}] The [Isma'ilis](/source/Ismailism) split with the Twelvers over who was the seventh Imam and have further fragmented into more groups over the status of successive Imams, with the largest group being the [Nizari](/source/Nizari_Isma'ilism)s.[{{cite book|last=Newman|first=Andrew J.|author-link=Andrew J. Newman|title=Twelver Shiism: Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_M8BQAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-7833-4|chapter=Introduction|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_M8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PP18|page=2|access-date=13 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501201413/https://books.google.com/books?id=-_M8BQAAQBAJ|archive-date=1 May 2016|url-status=live}}]
For Shias, the [Imam Ali Shrine](/source/Imam_Ali_Shrine) in Najaf, the [Imam Husayn Shrine](/source/Imam_Husayn_Shrine) in Karbala, and the [Fatima Masumeh Shrine](/source/Fatima_Masumeh_Shrine) in [Qom](/source/Qom) are also among the [Islamic Holy sites](/source/Holiest_sites_in_Islam).[{{cite web |last=Escobar |first=Pepe |date=May 24, 2002 |title=Knocking on heaven's door |url=http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/DE24Ag04.html |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020603155002/http://atimes.com/c-asia/DE24Ag04.html |archive-date=June 3, 2002 |access-date=2006-11-12 |work=[Asia Times Online](/source/Asia_Times_Online) |quote=our sixth imam, Imam Sadeg, says that we have five definitive holy places... first is Mecca... second is Medina... third belongs to our first imam of Shia, Ali, which is in Najaf. The fourth belongs to our third imam, Hussein, in Kerbala. The last one belongs to the daughter of our seventh imam and sister of our eighth imam, who is called Fatemah, and will be buried in Qom. |department=Central Asia/Russia}}]
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=== Muhakkima ===
{{Main|Muhakkima|Ibadi Islam|Kharijites}}
[Ibadism](/source/Ibadism) is the third-largest branch of Islam whose roots go back to the [Kharijite](/source/Kharijites) secession from the fourth Caliph, Ali.[{{cite encyclopedia |year=2014 |entry=Ibadis |encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |entry-url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e913 |editor=John L. Esposito |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820035842/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e913 |archive-date=2017-08-20 |quote=Ibadis [:] subsect of Khariji Islam founded in the eighth century. Has its strongest presence in [Oman](/source/Oman), but is also found in North Africa and various communities on the [Swahili Coast](/source/Swahili_Coast).}}] It is practised by 1.45 million Muslims around the world (~0.08% of all Muslims), most of them in [Oman](/source/Oman).[{{Cite book |last=Robert Brenton Betts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFq_KUqqWJMC&pg=PA15 |title=The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences |date=31 July 2013 |isbn=978-1-61234-522-2 |pages=14–15 |publisher=Potomac Books |access-date=7 January 2015 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228024743/https://books.google.com/books?id=vFq_KUqqWJMC&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}] Ibadism is often associated with and viewed as a moderate variation of the Kharijites, though Ibadis themselves object to this classification. The kharijites were groups that rebelled against Caliph Ali for his acceptance of arbitration with someone they viewed as a sinner. Unlike most kharijite groups, Ibadism does not regard sinful Muslims as unbelievers. Ibadi hadiths, such as the [Jami Sahih](/source/Jami_Sahih) collection, use chains of narrators from early Islamic history they consider trustworthy, but most Ibadi hadiths are also found in standard Sunni collections and contemporary Ibadis often approve of the standard Sunni collections.[{{Cite book|first= Valerie Jon|last= Hoffman|title= The Essentials of Ibadi Islam|location= [Syracuse](/source/Syracuse%2C_New_York)|pages=3–4|publisher= [Syracuse University Press](/source/Syracuse_University_Press)|year= 2012|isbn= 9780815650843|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JNxvMRJM3EAC}}]
centre|An overview of the major sects and ''madhahib'' of Islam
=== Other denominations ===
* The [Ahmadiyya Movement](/source/Ahmadiyya_Movement) was founded in British India in 1889 by [Mirza Ghulam Ahmad](/source/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad) of [Qadian](/source/Qadian), who claimed to be the promised [Messiah](/source/Messiah) ("[Second Coming](/source/Second_Coming) of [Christ](/source/Jesus_in_Islam)"), the [Mahdi](/source/Mahdi) awaited by the Muslims as well as a ["subordinate" prophet](/source/Prophethood_(Ahmadiyya)) to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[{{cite book |author-last=Upal |author-first=M. Afzal |author-link=Afzal Upal |title=Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements |publisher=[Brill Publishers](/source/Brill_Publishers) |year=2021 |isbn=978-90-04-43554-4 |editor1-last=Cusack |editor1-first=Carole M. |editor1-link=Carole M. Cusack |series=Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion |volume=21 |location=[Leiden](/source/Leiden) and [Boston](/source/Boston) |pages=637–657 |chapter=The Cultural Genetics of the Aḥmadiyya Muslim Jamāʿat |doi=10.1163/9789004435544_034 |issn=1874-6691 |editor2-last=Upal |editor2-first=M. Afzal |doi-access=free}}][{{cite book |last=Turner |first=Richard Brent |title=Islam in the African-American Experience |publisher=[Indiana University Press](/source/Indiana_University_Press) |year=2003 |isbn=9780253216304 |edition=2nd |location=[Bloomington, Indiana](/source/Bloomington%2C_Indiana) and [Indianapolis](/source/Indianapolis) |pages=109–146 |chapter=The Ahmadiyya Mission to America: A Multi-Racial Model for American Islam |lccn=2003009791 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4XMuLWlTgjMC&pg=PA109 }}] There are a wide variety of distinct beliefs and teachings of Ahmadis compared to those of ''most other'' Muslims,[{{cite book |author-last=Drover |author-first=Lauren |title=New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Socio-Cultural Alternatives |publisher=[Rowman & Littlefield](/source/Rowman_%26_Littlefield) |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-7936-3403-0 |editor-last=Kim |editor-first=David W. |series=Ethnographies of Religion |location=[Lanham, Maryland](/source/Lanham%2C_Maryland) |pages=21–36 |chapter=The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat: A New Religious Movement Derived from Islam? |oclc=1220880253 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WQGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA21}}][{{cite book |last1=Korbel |first1=Jonathan |title=Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism |last2=Preckel |first2=Claudia |publisher=[Brill Publishers](/source/Brill_Publishers) |year=2016 |isbn=978-90-04-32511-1 |editor1-last=Bentlage |editor1-first=Björn |series=Numen Book Series |volume=154 |location=[Leiden](/source/Leiden) |pages=426–442 |chapter=Ghulām Aḥmad al-Qādiyānī: The Messiah of the Christians—Peace upon Him—in India (India, 1908) |doi=10.1163/9789004329003_034 |editor2-last=Eggert |editor2-first=Marion |editor3-last=Krämer |editor3-first=Hans-Martin |editor4-last=Reichmuth |editor4-first=Stefan |editor4-link=Stefan Reichmuth (academic) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtY6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA426}}][{{Cite book |last=Balzani |first=Marzia |title=Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora: Living at the End of Days |isbn=978-1-315-19728-9 |location=Abingdon, Oxon |pages=6–8 |oclc=1137739779}}] and interpretation of the [Messiah's Second Coming](/source/Jesus_in_Ahmadiyya_Islam).[{{Cite web |date=2016-03-23 |title=What are the Signs of the Second Coming of the Messiah? |url=https://www.reviewofreligions.org/12457/what-are-the-signs-of-the-second-coming-of-the-messiah/ |access-date=2020-06-23 |website=Review of Religions |language=en-GB}}] These perceived deviations from normative Islamic thought have resulted in rejection by most Muslims as heretics[{{Cite web |last=Paracha |first=Nadeem F. |date=2013-11-21 |title=The 1974 ouster of the 'heretics': What really happened? |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1057427 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613025520/http://www.dawn.com/news/1057427 |archive-date=13 June 2015 |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=DAWN.COM |url-status=live |language=en}}] and [persecution of Ahmadis](/source/persecution_of_Ahmadis) in various countries,[{{cite book |last=Uddin |first=Asma T. |title=State Responses to Minority Religions |publisher=[Ashgate Publishing](/source/Ashgate_Publishing)/[Routledge](/source/Routledge) |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4724-1647-6 |editor-last=Kirkham |editor-first=David M. |series=Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements |location=[Farnham, U.K.](/source/Farnham) and [Burlington, Vermont](/source/Burlington%2C_Vermont) |pages=81–98 |chapter=A Legal Analysis of Ahmadi Persecution in Pakistan |lccn=2013019344 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9TVCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 |via=[Google Books](/source/Google_Books)}}] where they have been officially declared as non-Muslims by the [Government of Pakistan](/source/Government_of_Pakistan).[{{Cite web |title=Constitution (Second Amendment) Act, 1974 |url=https://pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/amendments/2amendment.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717144752/http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/amendments/2amendment.html |archive-date=17 July 2017 |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=pakistani.org}}] The followers of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam are divided into two groups: the first being the [Ahmadiyya Muslim Community](/source/Ahmadiyya_Muslim_Community), currently the dominant group, and the [Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam](/source/Lahore_Ahmadiyya_Movement_for_the_Propagation_of_Islam).[{{cite web |title=Bektāšīya |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bektasiya |website=Encyclopaedia Iranica |first1=Hamid |last1=Algar |date=December 15, 1989 |access-date=13 February 2019 |archive-date=10 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910201955/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bektasiya |url-status=live }}] Alevism is a blend of traditional 14th century Turkish beliefs,[Jorgen S Nielsen Muslim ''Political Participation in Europe'' [Edinburgh University Press](/source/Edinburgh_University_Press) 2013 {{ISBN|978-0-748-67753-5}} page 255] with possible syncretist origins in [Shamanism](/source/Tengrism) and [Animism](/source/Animism) alongside Shia and Sufi beliefs. It has been estimated that there are 10 million to over 20 million (~0.5–1% of all Muslims) Alevis worldwide.[{{cite web |last=Shindeldecker |first=John |title=Turkish Alevis Today: II Alevi Population Size and Distribution |url=http://www.alevi.dk/ENGELSK/Turkish_Alevis_Today.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130111738/http://www.alevi.dk/ENGELSK/Turkish_Alevis_Today.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-30 |format=PDF |access-date=2017-05-30 |language=en}}. See also: {{cite encyclopedia |title=Alevi |url=http://i-cias.com/e.o/alevi.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613045624/https://i-cias.com/e.o/alevi.htm |archive-date=2021-06-13 |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of the Orient |access-date=2017-05-30 |language=en}}]
*[Quranism](/source/Quranism) is a religious movement of Islam based on the belief that Islamic law and guidance should only be based on the [Quran](/source/Quran) and not the [sunnah](/source/sunnah) or [Hadith](/source/Hadith),[{{Cite journal |last=Musa |first=Aisha Y. |date=2010 |title=The Qur'anists |journal=Religion Compass |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=12–21 |doi=10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00189.x}}] with Quranists notably differing in their approach to the [five pillars of Islam](/source/five_pillars_of_Islam).[{{Cite journal |last=Musa |first=Aisha Y. |title=The Qur'anists |url=https://www.academia.edu/1035742 |journal=Religion Compass |year=2010 |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=12–21 |doi=10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00189.x |issn=1749-8171 |access-date=8 June 2021 |archive-date=28 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128062123/https://www.academia.edu/1035742 |url-status=live }}] The movement developed from the 19th century onwards, with thinkers like [Syed Ahmad Khan](/source/Syed_Ahmad_Khan), Abdullah Chakralawi and [Ghulam Ahmed Perwez](/source/Ghulam_Ahmed_Perwez) in India questioning the hadith tradition.[{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Daniel W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6RPcYgx5u_MC |title=Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought |date=1999-03-04 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-65394-7 |pages=7–45, 68 |language=en}}] In Egypt, [Muhammad Tawfiq Sidqi](/source/Muhammad_Tawfiq_Sidqi) penned the article ''Islam is the Quran alone'' in the magazine ''[Al-Manār](/source/Al-Man%C4%81r_(magazine))'', arguing for the sole authority of the Quran.[{{Cite book |last=Juynboll |first=G. H. A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAUVAAAAIAAJ |title=The Authenticity of the Tradition Literature: Discussions in Modern Egypt,... G.H.A. Juynboll,... |date=1969 |publisher=Brill Archive |pages=23–25 |language=en}}] A prominent late 20th century Quranist was [Rashad Khalifa](/source/Rashad_Khalifa), an Egyptian-American biochemist who claimed to have discovered a [numerological](/source/numerology) [code in the Quran](/source/Quran_code), and founded the Quranist organization [United Submitters International](/source/United_Submitters_International).[{{Cite journal |date=September 1989 |title=Why the name change? |url=http://www.quranalone.com/SP/57_1989_09.pdf |journal=Submission Perspective |volume=57 |page=1 |access-date=29 August 2022 |archive-date=31 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731115713/https://www.quranalone.com/SP/57_1989_09.pdf |url-status=live }}]
*[Mu'tazilism](/source/Mu'tazilism) was an early Islamic theological school known for their use of [rationalism](/source/rationalism), particularly towards the two primary sources of Islam, the [Qur'an](/source/Qur'an) and the [hadith](/source/hadith).[{{Cite book |last=Abd al-Jabbār |first=Al-Qāḍī |title=Kitab al-Mughni fi abwab al-tawhid wal-adl}}][{{Cite book |last=al-Asadābādī |first=ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_PilAQAACAAJ |title=Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsah |date=1965 |publisher=Maktabat wahbah |language=ar}}] The school was founded on five main principles: the monotheism ([tawhid](/source/tawhid)), [divine justice](/source/divine_justice), the certainty of divine promises and threats, an intermediate position regarding the status of great sinners, and the obligation to enjoin good and forbid evil.[{{Cite journal |last=Campanini |first=Massimo |date=2012 |title=The Mu'tazila in Islamic History and Thought |url=https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00273.x |journal=Religion Compass |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=41–50 |doi=10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00273.x |issn=1749-8171|url-access=subscription }}] Emphasizing the use of reason, they argued that human [free will](/source/free_will) allowed individuals to choose between good and evil, making them responsible for their actions.[{{Cite book |last=Fakhry |first=Majid |title=A history of Islamic philosophy |date= |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-13220-6 |edition= |location=New York |pages=47}}] Although the Mu'tazila's influence waned due to social and political pressure from orthodox Sunnis, their rationalist legacy remains important in [Islamic intellectualism](/source/Islamic_modernity).[{{Cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Richard C. |title=Defenders of reason in Islam: Muʻtazilism from medieval school to modern symbol |last2=Woodward |first2=Mark R. |last3=Atmaja |first3=Dwi S. |date=1997 |publisher=Oneworld Publications |isbn=978-1-85168-147-1 |location=Oxford, England; Rockport, MA, USA}}][{{Cite book |last=Vasalou |first=Sophia |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/VASMAA-2 |title=Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics |date=2008 |publisher=Princeton University Press}}]
=== Non-denominational Muslims ===
{{Main|Non-denominational Muslim}}
Non-denominational Muslims is an [umbrella term](/source/umbrella_term) that has been used for and by Muslims who do not belong to or do not self-identify with a specific [Islamic denomination](/source/Islamic_denomination).[{{Cite news |last=Benakis |first=Theodoros |date=13 January 2014 |title=Islamophoobia in Europe! |work=New Europe |location=Brussels |url=http://neurope.eu/article/islamophobia-europe/ |url-status=dead |access-date=20 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131145036/http://neurope.eu/article/islamophobia-europe/ |archive-date=31 January 2016 |quote=Anyone who has travelled to Central Asia knows of the non-denominational Muslims—those who are neither Shiites nor Sounites, but who accept Islam as a religion generally.}}][{{Cite book |last=Pollack |first=Kenneth |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=jQGZBAAAQBAJ|page=29}} |title=Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy |date=2014 |isbn=978-1-4767-3393-7 |page=29 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |quote=Although many Iranian hardliners are Shi'a chauvinists, Khomeini's ideology saw the revolution as pan-Islamist, and therefore embracing Sunni, Shi'a, Sufi, and other, more nondenominational Muslims}}] Recent surveys report that large proportions of Muslims in some parts of the world self-identify as solely Muslim, although there is little published analysis available regarding the motivations underlying this response.[{{Cite book |last=Burns |first=Robert |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=akWUGyN7fwEC|page=55}} |title=Christianity, Islam, and the West |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-7618-5560-6 |page=55 |publisher=University Press of America |quote=40 per cent called themselves "just a Muslim" according to the Council of American-Islamic relations}}][{{Cite book |last=Tatari |first=Eren |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=x_4QBQAAQBAJ|page=111}} |title=Muslims in British Local Government: Representing Minority Interests in Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets |date=2014 |isbn=978-90-04-27226-2 |page=111 |publisher=BRILL |quote=Nineteen said that they are Sunni Muslims, six said they are just Muslim without specifying a sect, two said they are Ahmadi, and two said their families are Alevi}}] Pew Research reports that respondents self-identifying as solely muslim make up a majority of Muslims in seven countries (and a plurality in three others), with the highest proportion in [Kazakhstan](/source/Kazakhstan) at 74%. At least one in five Muslims in at least 22 countries self-identifies in this way.[{{harvp|Esposito|2003|p=302}}][{{harvp|Malik|Hinnells|2006|p=3}}][{{harvp|Turner|1998|p=145}}][{{harvp|Trimingham|1998|p=1}}] [Ahmad ibn Ajiba](/source/Ahmad_ibn_Ajiba) defined tasawwuf as "a return to the tradition, and its beginning is knowledge, its middle is action [upon that knowledge], and its end is a gift [from Allah]."[{{cite book |last1=Ibn-ʿAǧība |first1=Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad |last2=Aresmouk |first2=Mohamed Fouad |last3=Fitzgerald |first3=Michael Abdurrahman |last4=Ibn-ʿAǧība |first4=Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad |title=The Book of ascension to the essential truths of Sufism: a lexicon of Sufic terminology = Miʿrāj al-tashawwuf ilā ḥaqāʾiq al-taṣawwuf |date=2011 |publisher=Fons Vitae |location=Louisville, KY |isbn=978-1891785849}}] It is not a sect of Islam, and its adherents belong to the various Muslim denominations. [Isma'ilism](/source/Isma'ilism), whose teachings are rooted in [Gnosticism](/source/Gnosticism) and [Neoplatonism](/source/Neoplatonism)[{{cite journal |last=Andani |first=Khalil |author-link=Khalil Andani |date=2016 |title=A Survey of Ismaili Studies Part 1: Early Ismailism and Fatimid Ismailism |journal=[Religion Compass](/source/Religion_Compass) |volume=10 |issue=8 |pages=191–206 |doi=10.1111/rec3.12205 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rec3.12205 |language=en|url-access=subscription }}] as well as by the [Illuminationist](/source/Illuminationism) and [Isfahan](/source/School_of_Isfahan) schools of Islamic philosophy, has developed mystical interpretations of Islam.[{{cite encyclopedia |last=Aminrazavi |first=Mehdi |author-link=Mehdi Aminrazavi |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |editor-link=Edward N. Zalta |title=Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy |encyclopedia=[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy](/source/Stanford_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy) |edition=Summer 2016 |publisher=Stanford University |date=2016 |orig-year=2009 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/arabic-islamic-mysticism/ |access-date=2020-05-25 |language=en}}] [Hasan al-Basri](/source/Hasan_al-Basri), the early Sufi ascetic often portrayed as one of the earliest Sufis,[{{cite book |last=Knysh |first=Alexander |author-link=Alexander Knysh |title=Islam in Historical Perspective |location=London |publisher=Routledge |year=2015 |page=214 |isbn=978-1-317-34712-5 |language=en}}] emphasized fear of failing God's expectations of obedience. In contrast, later prominent Sufis, such as [Mansur Al-Hallaj](/source/Mansur_Al-Hallaj) and [Jalaluddin Rumi](/source/Rumi), emphasized religiosity based on love towards God. Such devotion would also have an impact on the arts, with Rumi still one of the bestselling poets in America.[{{Cite news |last=Haviland |first=Charles |date=30 September 2007 |title=The roar of Rumi – 800 years on |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7016090.stm |access-date=10 August 2011}}][{{cite web |date=1 September 2009 |title=Islam: Jalaluddin Rumi |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/art/rumi_1.shtml |access-date=10 August 2011 |publisher=BBC}}]
Sufis see ''tasawwuf'' as an inseparable part of Islam.{{sfnp|Chittick|2008|pp=3–4, 11}} Traditional Sufis, such as [Bayazid Bastami](/source/Bayazid_Bastami), Jalaluddin Rumi, [Haji Bektash Veli](/source/Haji_Bektash_Veli), [Junaid Baghdadi](/source/Junaid_Baghdadi), and Al-Ghazali, argued for Sufism as being based upon the tenets of Islam and the teachings of the prophet.[{{Cite book |last=Nasr |first=Seyyed Hossein |url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontois00nasr |access-date=17 January 2015 |title=An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines |date=1993 |isbn=978-0-7914-1515-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/introductiontois00nasr/page/192 192]|publisher=SUNY Press }}]{{sfnp|Chittick|2008|pp=3–4, 11}} Historian [Nile Green](/source/Nile_Green) argued that Islam in the medieval period was more or less Sufism.{{sfnp|Peacock|2019|p=24,77}} Followers of the Sunni [revivalist](/source/Islamic_revival) movement known as [Salafism](/source/Salafism) have viewed popular devotional practices, such as the veneration of Sufi saints, as innovations from the original religion. Salafists have sometimes physically attacked Sufis, leading to a deterioration in [Sufi–Salafi relations](/source/Sufi%E2%80%93Salafi_relations).[{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Cook |author-first=David |author-link=David Cook (historian) |date=May 2015 |title=Mysticism in Sufi Islam |url=https://oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-51 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion |location=[Oxford](/source/Oxford) |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.51 |isbn=9780199340378 |doi-access=free |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128012740/http://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-51 |archive-date=28 November 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=15 January 2023}}]
Sufi congregations form orders (''[tariqa](/source/tariqa)'') centred around a teacher (''[wali](/source/wali)'') who traces a spiritual chain back to Muhammad.[{{cite encyclopedia|url= https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/583591/tariqa |title= tariqa | Islam |encyclopedia= Britannica.com |date= 4 February 2014 |access-date= 29 May 2015}}] Sufis played an important role in the formation of Muslim societies through their missionary and educational activities.[{{cite encyclopedia |last=Schimmel |first=Annemarie |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sufism |title=Sufism |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=17 September 2021 |url-access=subscription}}] The Sufism-influenced Ahle Sunnat movement or [Barelvi](/source/Barelvi) movement claims over 200 million followers in South Asia.[{{Cite book |last=Bowker |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780192800947 |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-19-280094-7 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780192800947.001.0001}}][{{cite journal |last=Sanyal |first=Usha |date=1998 |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=69415&jid=ASS&volumeId=32&issueId=03&aid=69414 |title=Generational Changes in the Leadership of the Ahl-e Sunnat Movement in North India during the Twentieth Century |journal=[Modern Asian Studies](/source/Modern_Asian_Studies) |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=635–656 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X98003059 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=17 March 2020 |access-date=1 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317013822/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/generational-changes-in-the-leadership-of-the-ahle-sunnat-movement-in-north-india-during-the-twentieth-century/8AAAC4CFEFC4F4084731C3964A5CAE84 |url-status=dead }}][{{harvp|Esposito|2003|loc=[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095357101 "Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jamaah"]}} – via Oxford Reference.] Sufism is prominent in Central Asia,[{{cite web |last=Alvi |first=Farhat |title=The Significant Role of Sufism in Central Asia |url=http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/uoc/PDF-FILES/(2)%20The%20Significant%20Role%20of%20Sufism%20in%20Central%20Asia%20(Dr.%20Farh.pdf}}][{{Cite journal |last=Johns |first=Anthony H |year=1995 |title=Sufism in Southeast Asia: Reflections and Reconsiderations |journal=[Journal of Southeast Asian Studies](/source/Journal_of_Southeast_Asian_Studies) |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=169–183 |doi=10.1017/S0022463400010560 |jstor=20071709|s2cid=154870820 }}] as well as in African countries like [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia), [Algeria](/source/Algeria), [Morocco](/source/Morocco), [Senegal](/source/Senegal), [Chad](/source/Chad) and [Niger](/source/Niger).[{{cite web|date=9 August 2012|title=Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2012/08/09/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-1-religious-affiliation/#identity|access-date=4 September 2013|website=The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity|publisher=[Pew Research Center](/source/Pew_Research_Center)'s Religion & Public Life Project}}][{{cite journal |last=Babou |first=Cheikh Anta |date=2007 |title=Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal |journal=[International Journal of African Historical Studies](/source/International_Journal_of_African_Historical_Studies) |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=184–186}}]
== Law and jurisprudence ==
{{Main|Sharia|Fiqh}}
{{See also|Logic in Islamic philosophy#Islamic law and theology}}
[[File:Madhhab Map3.png|thumb|Islamic [schools of law](/source/madh'hab) in the [Muslim world](/source/Muslim_world){{Citation needed|date=May 2025|reason=Our Fiqh map does need an update, for example Bahrain is mostly orange (representing Ja'fari) while its Monarchy is Maliki and a majority of its citizens Sunni. Would be very helpful to get an update to date SVG version of the map as there are some tiny island Indian Ocean countries who are not shown on the map}}]]
[Shariah](/source/Shariah) is the body of Islamic [religious law](/source/religious_law).[{{harvp|Esposito|2010|p=96}}][{{cite encyclopedia |last=Vikør |first=Knut S. |author-link=Knut S. Vikør |editor-last=Shahin |editor-first=Emad |editor-link=Emad El-Din Shahin |title=Sharīʿah |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics |location=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=2014 |isbn=978-0199739356 |url=http://bridgingcultures.neh.gov/muslimjourneys/items/show/226 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140604214623/http://bridgingcultures.neh.gov/muslimjourneys/items/show/226 |archive-date=2014-06-04 |access-date=2020-05-25 |language=en}}] Conversely, [bid'ah](/source/bid'ah) is used to refer to unlawful innovations in matters of religion.[{{cite book|last1 = A.C. Brown|first1 = Jonathan|author-link=Jonathan A.C. Brown|title = Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World ''(Foundations of Islam)''|date = 2009|publisher = [Oneworld Publications](/source/Oneworld_Publications)|isbn = 978-1851686636|page = 277}}] Differing methodologies, called principles of fiqh or ''[Usul al-fiqh](/source/Usul_al-fiqh)'', have developed and a school of jurisprudence arising around a methodology is known as a ''madhhab'' ({{langx|ar|مذهب}}). The conformity in following of decisions by a religious expert or school is called ''[taqlid](/source/taqlid)''. The term ''[ghayr muqallid](/source/Salafi_movement)'' refers to those who do not use taqlid and, by extension, do not have a madhab.[{{cite book| last = Bharathi| first = K. S.| title = Encyclopedia of Eminent Thinkers| location = New Delhi| publisher = Concept Publishing Company| year = 1998| language = en| isbn = 978-81-7022-684-0| ref = {{harvid|Bharathi|1998}}}}] The practice of an individual interpreting law with independent reasoning is called ''[ijtihad](/source/ijtihad)''.{{sfnp|Weiss|2002|pp=3, 161}}[{{cite web |editor-link=John Esposito|editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John L. |title=Islamic Law |work=[The Oxford Dictionary of Islam](/source/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Islam) |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t125/e1107 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203033813/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t125/e1107 |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 February 2017 |via=Oxford Islamic Studies Online}}] Those who interpret shariah are known as [mufti](/source/mufti)s and their legal opinions are called [fatwa](/source/fatwa)s.[{{Cite book |last1=Esposito |first1=John L. |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=MOmaDq8HKCgC|page=2}} |title=Women in Muslim Family Law |last2=DeLong-Bas |first2=Natana J. |publisher=[Syracuse University Press](/source/Syracuse_University_Press) |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-8156-2908-5 |pages=2– |author-link=John Esposito |author-link2=Natana J. DeLong-Bas|quote= "[...], by the ninth century, the classical theory of law fixed the sources of Islamic law at four: the ''Quran'', the ''Sunnah'' of the Prophet, ''qiyas'' (analogical reasoning), and ''ijma'' (consensus)."}}] A common third source is [qiyas](/source/qiyas) (analogical reasoning) which is used for legal questions not dealt with literally in the Qur’ān or Sunnah. Parallels would be searched for to find the ''illah'', or effective cause, which is the reason behind the existing ruling.[{{cite web |url= https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095957640|publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=1 October 2024 |location=Oxford |title=illah}}] For example, from the specific prohibition of wine is deduced a broad prohibition on alcohol as they share the operative cause identified as the mind-altering nature of all alcoholic drinks.[{{cite book |last1= Fairak |first1= A. |title= Analogy (Islamic)|edition=2014|page=56|year=2014|publisher=Springer |location=Boston|isbn= 978-1-4614-6085-5|language=English}}][{{Cite journal |last= Fairak |first= A. |year=2014 |title= Analogy (Islamic)|journal= Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion|volume=74 |issue=4 |pages=531–55 |doi=10.1086/353360 |s2cid=144315162 | issn=0021-1753}}] The [Zahiri school](/source/Zahiri_school) adheres to strict literalism and thus rejects qiyas. Consensus of opinion is [ijma](/source/ijma), while [ikhtilaf](/source/ikhtilaf) refers to scholarly disagreement. Rulings assign actions to one of five categories called [ahkam](/source/ahkam): mandatory (''[fard](/source/fard)''), recommended (''[mustahabb](/source/mustahabb)''), permitted (''[mubah](/source/mubah)''), abhorred (''[makruh](/source/makruh)''), and prohibited (''[haram](/source/haram)'').[ While the constitutions of most Muslim-majority states contain references to sharia, its classical rules were largely retained only in [personal status](/source/Status_(law)) (family) laws.][{{cite encyclopedia |last=Mayer |first=Ann Elizabeth |author-link=Ann Elizabeth Mayer |editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John L. |editor-link=John Esposito |title=Law: Modern Legal Reform |encyclopedia=[The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World](/source/The_Oxford_Encyclopedia_of_the_Islamic_World) |location=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=2009 |isbn=978-0195305135 |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121033722/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473 |archive-date=2008-11-21 |language=en}}] The [Islamic revival](/source/Islamic_revival) of the late 20th century brought along calls by [Islamist](/source/Islamist) movements for complete implementation of sharia.[{{Cite book |last=An-Na'im |first=Abdullahi A. |title=Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives |year=1996 |isbn=978-90-411-0179-2 |editor-last=Witte |editor-first=John |pages=337–359 |chapter=Islamic Foundations of Religious Human Rights |publisher=BRILL |editor-last2=van der Vyver |editor-first2=Johan D. |chapter-url={{Google books|aqyWwF5YA1gC|page=337|plainurl=yes}}}}][{{Cite journal |last=Hajjar |first=Lisa |year=2004 |title=Religion, State Power, and Domestic Violence in Muslim Societies: A Framework for Comparative Analysis |journal=[Law & Social Inquiry](/source/Law_%26_Social_Inquiry) |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=1–38 |doi=10.1111/j.1747-4469.2004.tb00329.x |jstor=4092696 |s2cid=145681085}}]
== Society ==
=== Religious personages ===
{{Main|Ulama}}
[[File:Карло Боссоли. Татарская школа для детей (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|[Crimean Tatar](/source/Crimean_Tatars) Muslim students (1856)]]
Islam has no clergy in the [sacerdotal](/source/sacerdotalism) sense, such as priests who mediate between God and people. ''[Imam](/source/Imam)'' ({{langx|ar|إمام|label=none}}) is the religious title used to refer to an Islamic leadership position, often in the context of conducting an Islamic worship service.[{{cite web |title=Imam|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/imam|access-date=15 January 2023|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}] Religious interpretation is presided over by the '''ulama'' (Arabic: علماء), a term used describe the body of Muslim scholars who have received training in [Islamic studies](/source/Islamic_studies). A scholar of the hadith is called a ''[muhaddith](/source/muhaddith)'', a scholar of jurisprudence is called a ''[faqih](/source/faqih)'' ({{langx|ar|فقيه|label=none}}), a jurist who is qualified to issue legal opinions or ''[fatwas](/source/fatwas)'' is called a [mufti](/source/mufti), and a ''[qadi](/source/qadi)'' is an Islamic judge. [Honorific](/source/Honorific) titles given to scholars include [sheikh](/source/sheikh), [mullah](/source/mullah) and ''[mawlawi](/source/Mawlawi_(Islamic_title))''. Some Muslims also venerate [saints](/source/Saints_in_Islam) associated with [miracles](/source/Islamic_view_of_miracles) ({{langx|ar|كرامات|translit=karāmāt|label=none}}).[{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Radtke |first1=B. |last2=Lory |first2=P. |last3=Zarcone |first3=Th. |last4=DeWeese |first4=D. |last5=Gaborieau |first5=M. |last6=Denny |first6=F. M. |last7=Aubin |first7=F. |last8=Hunwick |first8=J. O. |last9=Mchugh |first9=N. |title=Walī |orig-year=1993 |year=2012 |editor1-last=Bearman |editor1-first=P. J. |editor1-link=Peri Bearman |editor2-last=Bianquis |editor2-first=Th. |editor2-link=Thierry Bianquis |editor3-last=Bosworth |editor3-first=C. E. |editor3-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth |editor4-last=van Donzel |editor4-first=E. J. |editor4-link=Emeri Johannes van Donzel |editor5-last=Heinrichs |editor5-first=W. P. |editor5-link=Wolfhart Heinrichs |encyclopedia=[Encyclopaedia of Islam](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_Islam) |edition=2nd |location=[Leiden](/source/Leiden) |publisher=[Brill Publishers](/source/Brill_Publishers) |doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_1335 |isbn=978-90-04-16121-4}}]
=== Governance ===
{{See also|Political aspects of Islam|Islamic economics|Islamic military jurisprudence|tasamuh|Jihad}}
In [Islamic economic jurisprudence](/source/Islamic_economic_jurisprudence), hoarding of wealth is reviled and thus [monopolistic](/source/monopoly) behavior is frowned upon.[{{cite book | last1 = Iqbal | first1 = Zamir | last2 = Mirakhor | first2 = Abbas | last3 = Krichenne | first3 = Noureddine | last4 = Askari | first4 = Hossein | title = The Stability of Islamic Finance: Creating a Resilient Financial Environment | location = Singapore | publisher = John Wiley & Sons | year = 2010 | language = en | isbn = 978-0-470-82518-1 | p = 75}}] Attempts to comply with sharia has led to the development of [Islamic banking](/source/Islamic_banking). Islam prohibits ''[riba](/source/riba)'', usually translated as [usury](/source/usury), which refers to any unfair gain in trade and is most commonly used to mean [interest](/source/interest).[{{harvc |c=Riba |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam Online |year=n.d. |last1= Schacht|first1=Joseph}}] Instead, Islamic banks go into partnership with the borrower, and both share from the profits and any losses from the venture. Another feature is the avoidance of uncertainty, which is seen as gambling[{{Cite news |last=Foster|first=John |date=1 December 2009|title=How Islamic finance missed heavenly chance|work=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8388644.stm|access-date=13 February 2022}}] and Islamic banks traditionally avoid derivative instruments such as futures or options which has historically protected them from market downturns.[{{Cite news |last=Domat|first=Chloe|date=20 October 2020|title=What Is Islamic Finance And How Does It Work?|work=Global Finance magazine|url=https://www.gfmag.com/topics/blogs/islamic-finance-faq-what-islamic-finance-and-how-does-it-work|access-date=13 February 2022}}] The Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphate used to be involved in distribution of charity from the treasury, known as [Bayt al-mal](/source/Bayt_al-mal), before it became a largely individual pursuit around the year 720. The first [Caliph](/source/Caliph), [Abu Bakr](/source/Abu_Bakr), distributed zakat as one of the first examples of a [guaranteed minimum income](/source/guaranteed_minimum_income), with each citizen getting 10 to 20 [dirhams](/source/dirhams) annually.[{{cite web |last=Merchant, Brian |date=14 November 2013 |title=Guaranteeing a Minimum Income Has Been a Utopian Dream for Centuries |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/guaranteeing-a-minimum-income-has-been-a-utopian-dream-for-centuries/ |access-date=3 June 2019 |website=[VICE](/source/Vice_Media)}}] During the reign of the second Caliph Umar, [child support](/source/child_support) was introduced and the old and disabled were entitled to stipends,[{{Cite book |last=Al-Buraey |first=Muhammad |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=lT8OAAAAQAAJ|page=}} |title=Administrative Development: An Islamic Perspective |publisher=KPI |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-7103-0059-1 |pages=252–}}][{{Cite book |last1=Akgündüz |first1=Ahmed |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=EnT_zhqEe5cC|page=539}} |title=Ottoman History: Misperceptions and Truths |last2=Öztürk |first2=Said |publisher=IUR Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-90-90-26108-9 |pages=539– |access-date=7 October 2014}}] while the Umayyad Caliph [Umar II](/source/Umar_II) assigned a servant for each blind person and for every two chronically ill persons.[{{Cite book |last1=Al-Jawzi|first1=Ibn |url=|title=The Biography and Virtues of Omar Bin Abd al-Aziz – The Ascetic Caliph |publisher=IUR Press |year=2001 |isbn= |page=130 }}]
[Jihad](/source/Jihad) means "to strive or struggle [in the way of God]" and, in its broadest sense, is "exerting one's utmost power, efforts, endeavors, or ability in contending with an object of disapprobation".{{sfnp|Firestone|1999|pp=17–18}} Shias in particular emphasize the "greater jihad" of striving to attain spiritual [self-perfection](/source/self-improvement)[{{cite encyclopedia |last=Afsaruddin |first=Asma |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/jihad |title=Jihad |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |access-date=17 September 2021 |url-access=subscription}}][{{harvp|Brockopp|2003|pp=99–100}}][{{harvp|Esposito|2003|p=93}}] while the "lesser jihad" is defined as warfare.{{sfnp|Firestone|1999|p=17}}[{{harvc|last=Tyan, E. |year=2012 |c=D̲j̲ihād |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)}}. {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0189}}] When used without a qualifier, jihad is often understood in its military form.{{sfnp|Firestone|1999|pp=17–18}}[{{cite book | last = Habeck | first = Mary R. | title = Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror | location = New Haven | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 2006 | language = en | isbn = 978-0-300-11306-8 | pp = 108–109, 118 }}] Jihad only becomes an individual duty for those vested with authority. For the rest of the populace, this happens only in the case of a [general mobilization](/source/general_mobilization).[{{cite book|author=Fahd Salem Bahammam|title=Food and Dress in Islam: An explanation of matters relating to food and drink and dress in Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRojJ7lnb18C&pg=PP1|publisher=Modern Guide|isbn=978-1-909322-99-8|page=1}}] All meat must come from a [herbivorous](/source/herbivorous) animal slaughtered in the name of God by a Muslim, Jew, or Christian, except for game that one has hunted or fished for oneself.[{{harvp|Curtis|2005|p=164}}][{{harvp|Esposito|2002b|p=111}}][{{harvc |c=Slaughter |first=Ersilia |last=Francesca |year=n.d. |in=McAuliffe}}] Beards are often encouraged among men as something natural[{{Cite news |last=De Sondy |first=Amanullah |date=28 January 2016|title=The relationship between Muslim men and their beards is a tangled one|work=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/28/muslim-men-beards-facial-hair-islam |access-date=7 March 2022}}] and body modifications, such as [permanent tattoos](/source/Religious_perspectives_on_tattooing), are usually forbidden as violating the creation.{{efn|Some Muslims in dynastic era China resisted [footbinding](/source/footbinding) of girls for the same reason.[{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/religionsofchina00legg|quote=mohammedan.|title=The religions of China: Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity|first=James|last=Legge|year=1880|publisher=Hodder and Stoughton|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/religionsofchina00legg/page/111 111]|access-date=28 June 2010}}(Original from Harvard University)] }}[{{cite web |url=https://www.learnreligions.com/tattoos-in-islam-2004393|title=Are Muslims Allowed to Get Tattoos? |website=|access-date=7 March 2022 }}] Silk and gold are prohibited for men in Islam to maintain a state of sobriety.[{{cite book |last1=Glassé |first1=Cyril |title=The New Encyclopedia of Islam |publisher=AltaMira Press |page=158 |language=en|year=2001}}] ''[Haya](/source/Haya_(Islam))'', often translated as "shame" or "modesty", is sometimes described as the innate character of Islam[{{cite book |last1=Zine |first1=Jasmin |last2=Babana-Hampton |first2=Safoi |last3=Mazid |first3=Nergis |last4=Bullock |first4=Katherine |last5=Chishti |first5=Maliha |title=American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 19:4 |publisher=International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0JM4DwAAQBAJ&q=haya+islam&pg=PA59 |access-date=4 June 2020 |language=en}}] and informs much of Muslim daily life. For example, [clothing in Islam](/source/Islamic_clothing) emphasizes a standard of modesty, which has included the ''[hijab](/source/hijab)'' for women. Similarly, [personal hygiene](/source/Islamic_hygienical_jurisprudence) is encouraged with certain requirements.[{{cite web |last=Esposito |first=John |title=Oxford Islamic Studies Online |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t243/e4 |access-date=3 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114153249/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t243/e4 |archive-date=14 November 2016}}]
thumb|A Muslim couple
In [Islamic marriage](/source/Marriage_in_Islam), the groom is required to pay a bridal gift (''[mahr](/source/mahr)'').[{{harvp|Waines|2003|pp=93–96}}][{{harvp|Esposito|2003|p=339}}][{{harvp|Esposito|1998|p=79}}] Most families in the Islamic world are monogamous.[{{Cite book |last=Newby |first=Gordon D. |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseencyclope00newb |title=A concise encyclopedia of Islam |publisher=[Oneworld](/source/Oneworld_Publications) |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-85168-295-9 |location=Oxford |page=[https://archive.org/details/conciseencyclope00newb/page/141 141]}}][{{Cite book |last=Nasr |first=Seyyed Hossein |url=https://archive.org/details/islamreligionhis00nasr_0/page/68 |title=Islam : religion, history, and civilization |publisher=[HarperOne](/source/HarperOne) |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-06-050714-5 |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/islamreligionhis00nasr_0/page/68 68]}}] Muslim men are allowed to practice [polygyny](/source/polygyny) and can have up to four wives simultaneously. Islamic teachings strongly advise that if a man cannot ensure equal financial and emotional support for each of his wives, it is recommended that he marry just one woman. One reason cited for polygyny is that it allows a man to give financial protection to multiple women, who might otherwise not have any support (e.g. widows). However, the first wife can set a condition in the marriage contract that the husband cannot marry another woman during their marriage.[{{cite book|author=Ratno Lukito|title=Legal Pluralism in Indonesia: Bridging the Unbridgeable|page=81|publisher=[Routledge](/source/Routledge)}}][{{cite web |url=http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/fatwa/ShowFatwa.php?lang=A&Id=18444&Option=FatwaId |title=IslamWeb |publisher=IslamWeb |date=7 February 2002 |access-date=13 September 2011}}] There are also cultural variations in weddings.[{{Cite book |last=Eaton |first=Gai |url=https://archive.org/details/rememberinggodre0000eato |title=Remembering God: Reflections on Islam |publisher=The [Islamic Texts Society](/source/Islamic_Texts_Society) |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-946621-84-2 |location=Cambridge |pages=[https://archive.org/details/rememberinggodre0000eato/page/92 92–93]}}] [Polyandry](/source/Polyandry), a practice wherein a woman takes on two or more husbands, is prohibited in Islam.[{{cite web |title=Why Can't a Woman have 2 Husbands? |url=http://www.14publications.com/question-and-answer/why-cant-a-woman-have-2-husbands/ |access-date=27 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223012707/http://www.14publications.com/question-and-answer/why-cant-a-woman-have-2-husbands/ |archive-date=23 December 2015 |website=14 Publications}}]
[[File:عکس های مراسم ترتیل خوانی یا جزء خوانی یا قرائت قرآن در ایام ماه رمضان در حرم فاطمه معصومه در شهر قم 20.jpg|thumb|[Muslim](/source/Muslim) girls studying the [Quran](/source/Quran) placed atop folding [lectern](/source/lectern)s ([''rehal''](/source/Rehal_(book_rest))) during [Ramadan](/source/Ramadan) in [Qom](/source/Qom), [Iran](/source/Iran)]]
After the birth of a child, the ''[adhan](/source/adhan)'' is pronounced in the right ear.{{sfnp|Campo|2009|p=106}} On the seventh day, the ''[aqiqah](/source/aqiqah)'' ceremony is performed, in which an animal is sacrificed and its meat is distributed among the poor.{{sfnp|Nigosian|2004|p=[{{google books|plainurl=y|id=my7hnALd_NkC|page=120}} 120]}} The child's head is shaved, and an amount of money equaling the weight of its hair is donated to the poor.{{sfnp|Nigosian|2004|p=[{{google books|plainurl=y|id=my7hnALd_NkC|page=120}} 120]}} Male [circumcision](/source/circumcision), called ''[khitan](/source/Khitan_(circumcision))'',[{{cite encyclopedia |year=2014 |title=Khitān |encyclopedia=[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) |publisher=[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica%2C_Inc.) |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/khitan-Islam |access-date=27 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127165754/https://www.britannica.com/topic/khitan-Islam |archive-date=27 January 2020 |url-status=live}}] is often practised in the Muslim world.[{{cite journal |date=January 2017 |title=Reported Male Circumcision Practices in a Muslim-Majority Setting |journal=[BioMed Research International](/source/BioMed_Research_International) |publisher=[Hindawi Publishing Corporation](/source/Hindawi_Publishing_Corporation) |volume=2017 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1155/2017/4957348 |pmc=5282422 |pmid=28194416 |doi-access=free |author1-last=Anwer |author1-first=Abdul Wahid |author2-last=Samad |author2-first=Lubna |author3-last=Baig-Ansari |author3-first=Naila |author4-last=Iftikhar |author4-first=Sundus}}][{{cite web |date=13 August 2009 |title=Islam: Circumcision of boys |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/malecircumcision.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112170938/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/malecircumcision.shtml |archive-date=12 November 2012 |access-date=27 May 2020 |work=Religion & ethics—Islam |publisher=[Bbc.co.uk](/source/Bbc.co.uk)}}] Respecting and obeying one's parents, and taking care of them especially in their old age is a religious obligation.{{sfnp|Campo|2009|p=136}}
A [dying Muslim](/source/Islamic_view_of_death) is encouraged to pronounce the ''Shahada'' as their last words.[{{Cite book| isbn = 9783643900678| title =Changing European Death Ways| location = Austria| year = 2013| last1=Mathijssen| first1=Brenda|last2=Venhorst|first2=Claudia|last3=Venbrux|first3=Eric|last4=Quartier|first4=Thomas| url =| page = 265 |publisher=Lit }}] Paying respects to the dead and attending funerals in the community are considered among the virtuous acts. In [Islamic burial rituals](/source/Islamic_funeral), burial is encouraged as soon as possible, usually within 24 hours. The body is washed, except for martyrs, by members of the same gender and enshrouded in a garment that must not be elaborate called ''kafan''.{{sfnp|Stefon|2010|p=[https://archive.org/details/islamicbeliefspr0000stef/page/83 83]}} A "funeral prayer" called ''[Salat al-Janazah](/source/Salat_al-Janazah)'' is performed. Wailing or loud, mournful outcrying, is discouraged. Coffins are often not preferred and graves are often unmarked, even for kings.[{{Cite news |last=Rahman|first=Rema |date=25 October 2011|title=Who, What, Why: What are the burial customs in Islam?|work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15444275|access-date=28 January 2022}}]
=== Arts and culture ===
{{Main|Islamic culture}}
{{See also|Islamic art|Islamic architecture|Islamic literature|Islam in association football|Cultural Muslims}}
The term "[Islamic culture](/source/Islamic_culture)" can be used to mean aspects of culture that pertain to the religion, such as [festivals](/source/festivals) and [dress code](/source/Islamic_clothing). It is also controversially used to denote the cultural aspects of traditionally Muslim people.[{{Cite news |last=Melikian |first=Souren |author-link=Souren Melikian |date=4 November 2011 |title='Islamic' Culture: A Groundless Myth |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/arts/05iht-rartmelikian05.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=25 November 2013}}] Finally, "Islamic civilization" may also refer to the aspects of the synthesized culture of the early Caliphates, including that of non-Muslims,{{sfnp|Esposito|2010|p=56}} sometimes referred to as "Islamicate".[{{Cite book| publisher = Wiley| isbn = 9781405155144| title =Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit | location = United Kingdom| year = 2021| last=Lawrence| first=Bruce| url =| page = xii| quote = }}]
[Islamic art](/source/Islamic_art) encompasses the [visual arts](/source/visual_arts) including fields as varied as [architecture](/source/Islamic_architecture), [calligraphy](/source/Islamic_calligraphy), painting, and [ceramics](/source/Islamic_ceramics), among others.[{{Cite book |last1=Ettinghausen |first1=Richard |first2=Oleg |last2=Grabar |first3=Marilyn |last3=Jenkins-Madina |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300088670/page/3 |title=Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250 |publisher=[Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press) |year=2003 |isbn=0-300-08869-8 |edition=2nd |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300088670/page/3 3]}}][{{Cite book|last=Suarez|first=Michael F.|title=The Oxford companion to the book|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=9780198606536|location=Oxford and New York|pages=331ff|chapter=38 The History of the Book in the Muslim World|oclc=50238944}}] While the making of images of animate beings has often been frowned upon in connection with [laws against idolatry](/source/Aniconism_in_Islam), this rule has been interpreted in different ways by different scholars and in different historical periods. This stricture has been used to explain the prevalence of calligraphy, [tessellation](/source/tessellation), and pattern as key aspects of Islamic artistic culture.[{{Cite book |last1=Salim Ayduz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=or-6BwAAQBAJ&q=islamic+art+idolatry+geometry&pg=PA263 |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam |last2=Ibrahim Kalin |last3=Caner Dagli |date=2014 |page=263|publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |isbn=978-0-19-981257-8 |quote=Figural representation is virtually unused in Islamic art because of Islam's strong antagonism of idolatry. It was important for Muslim scholars and artists to find a style of art that represented the Islamic ideals of unity (''tawhid'') and order without figural representation. Geometric patterns perfectly suited this goal.}}] Additionally, the [depiction of Muhammad](/source/Depictions_of_Muhammad) is a contentious issue among Muslims.[{{cite journal|jstor=860736| title = An Indian Picture of Muhammad and His Companions
| author = T. W. Arnold| journal = The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
| author-link = T. W. Arnold| date = June 1919| volume = 34| issue = 195
| publisher = The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 34, No. 195.
| pages = 249–252}}] In Islamic architecture, varying cultures show influence such as North African and Spanish Islamic architecture such as the [Great Mosque of Kairouan](/source/Great_Mosque_of_Kairouan) containing [marble](/source/marble) and [porphyry](/source/Porphyry_(geology)) columns from Roman and Byzantine buildings,[{{Cite book |last=Isichei |first=Elizabeth Allo |url={{Google books|LgnhYDozENgC|page=PA175|keywords=mosque%20kairouan%20roman columns|text=mosque+kairouan+roman+columns|plainurl=yes}} |title=A history of African societies to 1870 |publisher=[Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-521-45599-2 |location=Cambridge |pages=175 |access-date=6 August 2010}}] while [mosques in Indonesia](/source/mosques_in_Indonesia) often have multi-tiered roofs from local [Java](/source/Java)nese styles.[{{cite book |first=Gunawan |last=Tjahjono |title=Indonesian Heritage-Architecture |url=https://archive.org/details/architecture00indo/page/88 |year=1998 |publisher=Archipelago Press |location=Singapore |isbn=981-3018-30-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/architecture00indo/page/88 88–89] }}]
The [Islamic calendar](/source/Islamic_calendar) is a [lunar calendar](/source/lunar_calendar) that begins with the [Hijra](/source/Hegira) of 622 CE, a date that was reportedly chosen by Caliph Umar as it was an important turning point in Muhammad's fortunes.[{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Muslim-calendar|title=Islamic calendar|website=www.britannica.com|date=|access-date=8 August 2022}}] Islamic [holy days](/source/Muslim_holidays) fall on fixed dates of the lunar calendar, meaning they occur in [different seasons](/source/seasons) in different years in the [Gregorian calendar](/source/Gregorian_calendar). The most important Islamic festivals are ''[Eid al-Fitr](/source/Eid_al-Fitr)'' ({{langx|ar|عيد الفطر}}) on the 1st of ''[Shawwal](/source/Shawwal)'', marking the end of the fasting month ''Ramadan'', and ''[Eid al-Adha](/source/Eid_al-Adha)'' ({{lang|ar|عيد الأضحى}}) on the 10th of ''Dhu al-Hijjah'', coinciding with the end of the [Hajj](/source/Hajj) (pilgrimage).[{{Cite book| publisher =Oxford University Press| isbn =9780195165203| title =The Islamic World: Past and Present| year = 2004| last=Esposito| first=John| pages = 75–76 |ref=none}}][{{cite book|first1= Cara|last1= Aitchison|author1-link= Cara Aitchison|first2= Peter E.|last2= Hopkins|author3-link= Mei-Po Kwan|author3= Mei-Po Kwan|title= Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=DRnthQxB8lYC&pg=PA147|access-date= 30 June 2013|year= 2007|publisher= Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn= 978-1-4094-8747-0|pages=147}}][{{cite book|title=Islamic Counselling: An Introduction to theory and practice|first=G. Hussein|last= Rassool|year= 2015| isbn=9781317441250| page =10|publisher=Routledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_QsCgAAQBAJ&dq=Muslims+who+are+religiously+unobservant,+secular+or+irreligious+individuals+who+still+identify+with+the+Muslim&pg=PA10|quote=The label 'Cultural Muslim' is used in the literature to describe those Muslims who are religiously unobservant, secular or irreligious individuals who still identify with the Muslim culture due to family background, personal experiences, or the social and cultural environment in which they grew up... For Cultural Muslim the declaration of faith is superficial and has no effect of their religious practices.}}]
File:Sixty Dome Mosque,Bagerhat.jpg|14th century [Sixty Dome Mosque](/source/Sixty_Dome_Mosque), in [Khalifatabad](/source/Khalifatabad), [Bangladesh](/source/Bangladesh)
File:Djenne great mud mosque.jpg|[Great Mosque of Djenné](/source/Great_Mosque_of_Djenn%C3%A9), in the [west Africa](/source/west_Africa)n country of [Mali](/source/Mali)
File:Closeup of Mir-i-Arab Madrasa.jpg|Dome in [Po-i-Kalyan](/source/Po-i-Kalyan), [Bukhara](/source/Bukhara), [Uzbekistan](/source/Uzbekistan)
File:1 great mosque xian 2011.JPG|14th century [Great Mosque of Xi'an](/source/Great_Mosque_of_Xi'an) in China
File:Masjid Menara Kudus.jpg|16th century [Menara Kudus Mosque](/source/Menara_Kudus_Mosque) in Indonesia showing Indian influence
File:Basmalah-1wm.svg|The phrase ''[Bismillah](/source/Basmala)'' in an 18th-century Islamic calligraphy from the [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_empire) region
File:Roof hafez tomb.jpg|Geometric arabesque tiling on the underside of the dome of Hafiz Shirazi's tomb in [Shiraz](/source/Shiraz), [Iran](/source/Iran)
== Islamist movements ==
{{Main|Islamism}}
{{See also|Islamism by country}}
[Islamism](/source/Islamism) is a range of [religious](/source/Religion) and [political](/source/Politics) [ideological](/source/Ideology) movements that believe that Islam should influence political systems; among the most prominent are the [Khilafat Movement](/source/Khilafat_Movement), [Islamic revival](/source/Islamic_revival), [Islamic democracy](/source/Islamic_democracy), the [Deobandi movement](/source/Deobandi_movement), the [Salafi movement](/source/Salafi_movement), among others.[{{Cite web |title=Islamism |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/islamism |website=Cambridge dictionary}}] Its proponents believe Islam is innately political, and that Islam as a political system is superior to [communism](/source/communism), [liberal democracy](/source/liberal_democracy), [capitalism](/source/capitalism), and other alternatives in achieving a just, successful society.[{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Caroline |date=June 2003 |title=The 'West', Islam and Islamism |url=https://civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs29.pdf |access-date=28 November 2024 |website=Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society}}] The advocates of Islamism, also known as "al-Islamiyyun", are usually affiliated with Islamic institutions or social mobilization movements,[{{Cite web |title=Islamism |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100012444 |access-date=25 August 2023 |website=Oxford Reference|archive-date=25 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230825061146/https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100012444 |url-status=live }}] emphasizing the implementation of ''[sharia](/source/sharia)'',[{{cite journal |last1=Eikmeier |first1=Dale |title=Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic-Fascism |journal=The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters |date=2007 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=85–97 |doi=10.55540/0031-1723.2340|doi-access=free }}] [pan-Islamic](/source/pan-Islamic) political unity,[Soage, Ana Belén. "Introduction to Political Islam." Religion Compass 3.5 (2009): 887–96.]
== Influences on other religions ==
Whether movements such as the [Druze](/source/Druze),[{{Cite book |last=De McLaurin |first=Ronald |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalroleofm0000unse |title=The Political Role of Minority Groups in the Middle East |publisher=Michigan University Press |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-03-052596-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/politicalroleofm0000unse/page/114 114] |quote=Theologically, one would have to conclude that the Druze are not Muslims. They do not accept the five pillars of Islam. In place of these principles, the Druze have instituted the seven precepts noted above...}}][{{Cite book |last=Hunter |first=Shireen |url=https://archive.org/details/politicsofislami0000unse |title=The Politics of Islamic Revivalism: Diversity and Unity: Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown University. Center for Strategic and International Studies |publisher=[University of Michigan Press](/source/University_of_Michigan_Press) |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-253-34549-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/politicsofislami0000unse/page/33 33] |quote=Druze – An offshoot of Shi'ism; its members are not considered Muslims by orthodox Muslims.}}][{{Cite book |last=R. Williams |first=Victoria |title=Indigenous Peoples: An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival [4 volumes] |publisher=[ABC-CLIO](/source/ABC-CLIO) |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-4408-6118-5 |page=318 |quote=As Druze is a nonritualistic religion without requirements to pray, fast, make pilgrimages, or observe days of rest, the Druze are not considered an Islamic people by Sunni Muslims.}}] [Berghouata](/source/Berghouata) and [Ha-Mim](/source/Ha-Mim), either emerged from Islam or came to share certain beliefs with Islam, and whether each is a separate religion or a sect of Islam are controversial viewpoints.[{{Cite book |last=D. Grafton |first=David |title=Piety, Politics, and Power: Lutherans Encountering Islam in the Middle East |publisher=[Wipf and Stock Publishers](/source/Wipf_and_Stock_Publishers) |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-63087-718-7 |page=14 |quote=In addition, there are several quasi-Muslim sects, in that, although they follow many of the beliefs and practices of orthodox Islam, the majority of Sunnis consider them heretical. These would be the Ahmadiyya, Druze, Ibadi, and the Yazidis.}}] The Druze faith further split from [Isma'ilism](/source/Isma'ilism) as it developed its own unique doctrines, and finally separated from both Ismāʿīlīsm and Islam altogether; these include the belief that the Imam [Al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh](/source/Al-Hakim_bi-Amr_Allah) was [God incarnate](/source/Incarnation).[{{cite journal |last=Poonawala |first=Ismail K. |date=July–September 1999 |title=Review: ''The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning'' by Heinz Halm |journal=[Journal of the American Oriental Society](/source/Journal_of_the_American_Oriental_Society) |publisher=[American Oriental Society](/source/American_Oriental_Society) |volume=119 |issue=3 |page=542 |doi=10.2307/605981 |issn=0003-0279 |jstor=605981 |lccn=12032032 |oclc=47785421}}][{{cite journal | last = Bryer | first = David R. W. | title = The Origins of the Druze Religion (Fortsetzung) | journal = [Der Islam](/source/Der_Islam) | year = 1975 | volume = 52 | issue = 2 | pages = 239–262 | doi = 10.1515/islm.1975.52.2.239 | s2cid = 162363556 | url = https://doi.org/10.1515/islm.1975.52.2.239 | issn = 1613-0928 | ref = {{harvid|Bryer|1975b}} | url-access = subscription }}] [Yazdânism](/source/Yazd%C3%A2nism) is seen as a blend of local Kurdish beliefs and Islamic Sufi doctrine introduced to [Kurdistan](/source/Kurdistan) by [Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir](/source/Sheikh_Adi_ibn_Musafir) in the 12th century.[{{cite book |last=Foltz |first=Richard |title=Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present |date=7 November 2013 |isbn=978-1-78074-307-3 |page=219 |chapter=Two Kurdish Sects: The Yezidis and the Yaresan |publisher=Oneworld Publications |chapter-url= |chapter-url-access=}}] [Bábism](/source/B%C3%A1bism) stems from Twelver Shia passed through [Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad i-Shirazi al-Bab](/source/Siyyid_'Ali_Muhammad_i-Shirazi_al-Bab) while one of his followers Mirza Husayn 'Ali Nuri [Baha'u'llah](/source/Baha'u'llah) founded the [Baháʼí Faith](/source/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith).[{{cite web |last=House of Justice |first=Universal |title=One Common Faith |url=http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/bic/OCF/ocf-8.html |access-date=1 April 2017 |website=reference.bahai.org}}] [Yarsanism](/source/Yarsanism),[{{cite journal |last=Mir-Hosseini |first=Z. |date=1994 |title=Inner Truth and Outer History: The Two Worlds of the Ahl-e Haqq of Kurdistan |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |volume=26 |pages=267–268}}] [Din-i Ilahi](/source/Din-i_Ilahi),{{sfnp|Roychoudhury|1941|page=306}} and [Ali-Illahism](/source/Ali-Illahism)[{{Cite book |last=Layard |first=Austen Henry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SQe_sNtIaMC&q=ali%2520illahism&pg=PA216 |title=Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition Undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum |date=2010-08-31 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108016773 |page=216 |language=en}}] are considered separations from Islam. [Sikhism](/source/Sikhism), founded by [Guru Nanak](/source/Guru_Nanak) in late 15th century [Punjab](/source/Punjab), primarily incorporates aspects of Islam and [Hinduism](/source/Hinduism).[{{cite book |last=Elsberg |first=Constance |date=2003 |title=Graceful Women |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=978-1-57233-214-0 |pages=27–28}}]
== Criticism ==
{{Main|Criticism of Islam}}
{{see also|Criticism of Muhammad|Criticism of the Quran}}
[[File:John Damascus (arabic icon).gif|right|thumb|[John of Damascus](/source/John_of_Damascus), under the [Umayyad Caliphate](/source/Umayyad_Caliphate), viewed Islamic doctrines as a hodgepodge from the [Bible](/source/Bible).[{{Cite book |url=http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/general/stjohn_islam.aspx |title=Writings by St John of Damascus |publisher=Catholic University of America Press |year=1958 |series=The Fathers of the Church |volume=37 |location=Washington, DC |pages=153–160 |chapter=St. John of Damascus's Critique of Islam |access-date=8 July 2019}}]]]
Criticism of Islam has existed since its formative stages. Early criticism came from Jewish authors, such as [Ibn Kammuna](/source/Ibn_Kammuna), and Christian authors, many of whom viewed Islam as a [Christian heresy](/source/Medieval_Christian_views_on_Muhammad) or a form of [idolatry](/source/idolatry), often explaining it in [apocalyptic](/source/Apocalypticism) terms.{{sfnp|Fahlbusch et al|2001|p=[{{google books|plainurl=y|id=yaecVMhMWaEC|page=759}} 759]}}
Christian writers criticized Islam's sensual descriptions of paradise. 9th century Muslim scholar [Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari](/source/Ali_ibn_Sahl_Rabban_al-Tabari) defended the Quranic description of paradise by asserting that the Bible also implies such ideas, such as drinking wine in heaven in the [Gospel of Matthew](/source/Gospel_of_Matthew). Christian 4th century theologian [Augustine of Hippo](/source/Augustine_of_Hippo)'s doctrines led to the broad repudiation of bodily pleasure in both life and the afterlife.[{{Cite book |author=Christian Lange |title=Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions |publisher=[Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-521-50637-3 |pages=18–20}}]
A study{{what|date=April 2026}} found higher Islamic religiosity correlated with higher [Islamic extremism](/source/Islamic_extremism).[{{Cite journal |last1=Kamenowski |first1=Maria |last2=Manzoni |first2=Patrik |last3=Haymoz |first3=Sandrine |last4=Isenhardt |first4=Anna |last5=Jacot |first5=Cédric |last6=Baier |first6=Dirk |date=2021-06-17 |title=Religion as an influencing factor of right-wing, left-wing and Islamist extremism. Findings of a Swiss youth study |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=16 |issue=6 |article-number=e0252851 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0252851 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=8211158 |pmid=34138885 |bibcode=2021PLoSO..1652851K }}]
Defamatory images of [Muhammad](/source/medieval_Christian_views_on_Muhammad), derived from early 7th-century depictions of the [Byzantine Church](/source/Eastern_Orthodox_Church_in_the_Byzantine_Empire),[[Reeves, Minou](/source/Minou_Reeves), and P. J. Stewart. 2003. ''Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth-Making''. [NYU Press](/source/New_York_University_Press). {{ISBN|978-0-8147-7564-6}}. p. 93–96.] appear in the 14th-century epic poem ''[Divine Comedy](/source/Divine_Comedy)'' by [Dante Alighieri](/source/Dante_Alighieri).[Stone, G. 2006. ''Dante's Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion''. [Springer Publishing](/source/Springer_Publishing). {{ISBN|978-1-4039-8309-1}}. p. 53–54.] Here, Muhammad is depicted in the eighth circle of hell, along with Ali. Dante does not blame Islam as a whole but accuses Muhammad of [schism](/source/schism), by establishing another religion after Christianity.[{{cite book|first1=Yohanan|last1=Friedmann|year=2003|title=Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition|url=https://archive.org/details/tolerancecoercio00frie|url-access=limited|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/tolerancecoercio00frie/page/n31 18], 35|isbn=978-0-521-02699-4}}] Furthermore, in the wake of recent [multiculturalism](/source/multiculturalism) trends, the supposed ability of [Muslim immigrants](/source/Muslim_diaspora) in the West to assimilate has been [criticized](/source/criticism_of_multiculturalism) and blamed upon Islamic backgrounds by some.[{{Cite book |last=Modood |first=Tariq |url=https://archive.org/details/multiculturalism00modo |title=Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach |date=6 April 2006 |publisher=[Routledge](/source/Routledge) |isbn=978-0-415-35515-5 |edition=1st |page=[https://archive.org/details/multiculturalism00modo/page/n43 29] |url-access=registration}}]
== See also ==
{{Portal|Islam|Religion
}}
* [Glossary of Islam](/source/Glossary_of_Islam)
* [Index of Islam-related articles](/source/Index_of_Islam-related_articles)
* [Islamic mythology](/source/Islamic_mythology)
* [Islamic studies](/source/Islamic_studies)
* [List of scientists in medieval Islamic world](/source/List_of_scientists_in_medieval_Islamic_world)
* [Major religious groups](/source/Major_religious_groups)
* [Outline of Islam](/source/Outline_of_Islam)
* [Quranism](/source/Quranism)
* [Ban on Hadith](/source/Ban_on_Hadith)
==References==
===Footnotes===
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===Quran and hadith===
{{Reflist|group=lower-roman}}
===Citations===
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=== Encyclopedias and dictionaries ===
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* {{harvc |last1=Gardet|first1=L.|last2=Jomier|first2=J.|year=2012|c=Islām |in=Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)}} {{doi|10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0387}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica%2C_Inc.)}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |ref={{harvid|Fahlbusch et al|2001}} |editor-last=Fahlbusch |editor-first=Erwin |display-editors=etal |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=yaecVMhMWaEC}} |title=The Encyclopedia of Christianity |publisher=[Brill Publishers](/source/Brill_Publishers) |year=2001 |isbn=978-90-04-11695-5 |volume=2}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |year=1913–1936 |title=[Encyclopaedia of Islam](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_Islam) |editor1-last=Houtsma |editor1-first=M.T. |editor1-link=Martijn Theodoor Houtsma |editor2-first=T.W. |editor2-last=Arnold |editor2-link=Thomas Walker Arnold |editor3-first=R. |editor3-last=Basset |editor4-first=R. |editor4-last=Hartmann |edition=1st |place=Leiden |publisher=[Brill](/source/Brill_Publishers) |isbn=978-90-04-08265-6 |ref={{harvid|Encyclopaedia of Islam (1st ed.)|1913–1936}}}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |year=2012 |title=[Encyclopaedia of Islam](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_Islam) |editor-last=Bearman |editor-first=P.J. |issn=1573-3912 |editor1-link=Peri Bearman |editor2-first=Th. |editor2-last=Bianquis |editor3-first=C.E. |editor3-last=Bosworth |editor3-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth |editor4-first=E. |editor4-last=van Donzel |editor5-first=W.P. |editor5-last=Heinrichs |editor5-link=Wolfhart Heinrichs |edition=2nd |place=Leiden |publisher=[Brill](/source/Brill_Publishers) |isbn=978-90-04-16121-4 |ref={{harvid|Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.)|2012}}}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Encyclopaedia of Islam Online |publisher=[Brill Academic Publishers](/source/Brill_Academic_Publishers) |editor-last=Bearman |editor-first=P.J. |issn=1573-3912 |editor1-link=Peri Bearman |editor2-first=Th. |editor2-last=Bianquis |editor3-first=C.E. |editor3-last=Bosworth |editor3-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth |editor4-first=E. |editor4-last=van Donzel |editor5-first=W.P. |editor5-last=Heinrichs |editor5-link=Wolfhart Heinrichs |ref={{harvid|Encyclopaedia of Islam Online|n.d.}} |date=n.d. |url=https://brill.com/view/package/eio?language=en |url-access=subscription}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2004 |title=Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World |series=[Macmillan Reference Books](/source/Macmillan_Reference_Books) |publisher=[Thomson-Gale](/source/Thomson-Gale) |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofis0001unse |editor-last=Martin |editor-first=Richard C. |isbn=978-0-02-865603-8}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |title=[Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an Online](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_the_Qur'an) |publisher=[Brill Academic Publishers](/source/Brill_Academic_Publishers) |date=n.d. |editor-first=Jane Dammen |editor-last=McAuliffe |editor-link=Jane Dammen McAuliffe}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |title=[Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_the_Qur%CA%BE%C4%81n) |volume=2 |editor-first=Jane Dammen |editor-last=McAuliffe |publisher=[Brill Academic Publishers](/source/Brill_Academic_Publishers) |year=2002}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |title=[Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_the_Qur%CA%BE%C4%81n) |volume=3 |editor-first=Jane Dammen |editor-last=McAuliffe |publisher=[Brill Academic Publishers](/source/Brill_Academic_Publishers) |year=2003}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals |publisher=[Routledge](/source/Routledge) |editor-last=Salamone |editor-first=Frank |edition=1st |isbn=978-0-415-94180-8 |series=Routledge Encyclopedias of Religion and Society |volume=6 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofre00sala |jstor=j.ctt1jd94wq |year=2004 }}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2003 |title=The New Encyclopedia of Islam |publisher=[AltaMira Press](/source/AltaMira_Press) |url=https://archive.org/details/newencyclopediao0000glas |editor-last=Glassé |editor-first=Cyril |series=Revised Edition of the Concise Encyclopedia of Islam |isbn=978-0-7591-0190-6 |url-access=registration}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-19-512558-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00bada |url-access=registration}} {{doi|10.1093/acref/9780195125580.001.0001}} – via Oxford Reference.
* {{Cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John |year=2004 |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |place=Oxford |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |isbn=978-0-19-975726-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E324pQEEQQcC}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2006 |title=The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia |publisher=[Routledge](/source/Routledge) |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=isDgI0-0Ip4C|page=}} |editor-last=Leaman |editor-first=Oliver |isbn=978-0-415-32639-1}}
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== Further reading ==
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* Abdul-Haqq, Abdiyah Akbar (1980). ''Sharing Your Faith with a Muslim''. Minneapolis: [Bethany House Publishers](/source/Bethany_House_Publishers). ''N.B''. Presents the genuine doctrines and concepts of Islam and of the Holy Qur'an, and this religion's affinities with Christianity and its Sacred Scriptures, in order to "dialogue" on the basis of what both faiths really teach. {{ISBN|0-87123-553-6}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2008 |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |publisher=[SAGE](/source/SAGE_Publishing); [Cato Institute](/source/Cato_Institute) |location=Thousand Oaks, CA |last=Ahmad |first=Imad-ad-Dean |title=Islam |author-link=Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-first=Ronald |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |pages=256–258 |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n155 |isbn=978-1-4129-6580-4 |lccn=2008009151 |oclc=750831024 |url={{Google books|yxNgXs3TkJYC|plainurl=yes}}}}
* {{Cite book |last=Akyol |first=Mustafa |url=https://archive.org/details/islamwithoutextr0000akyo |title=Islam Without Extremes |publisher=[W.W. Norton & Company](/source/W.W._Norton_%26_Company) |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-393-07086-6 |edition=1st |author-link=Mustafa Akyol}}
* {{Cite book |last=Arberry |first=A.J. |url=https://archive.org/details/koraninterpreted00ajar |title=The Koran Interpreted: A Translation |publisher=Touchstone |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-684-82507-6 |edition=1st |author-link=A. J. Arberry}}
* Cragg, Kenneth (1975). ''The House of Islam'', in ''The Religious Life of Man Series''. Second ed. Belmont, CA: [Wadsworth Publishing Company](/source/Wadsworth_Publishing_Company) 1975. xiii, 145 p. {{ISBN|0-8221-0139-4}}.
* {{Cite book |last=Hafez |first=Sherine |title=An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women's Islamic Movements |year=2011 |publisher=[New York University Press](/source/New_York_University_Press) |isbn=9780814773055 |url=https://opensquare.nyupress.org/books/9780814790724/}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Khan |first1=Muhammad Muhsin |title=Noble Quran |last2=Al-Hilali Khan |last3=Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din |publisher=[Dar-us-Salam Publications](/source/Dar-us-Salam_Publications) |year=1999 |isbn=978-9960-740-79-9 |edition=1st |author-link=Muhammad Muhsin Khan}}
* Khanbaghi, A, (2006). ''The Fire, the Star and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran''. [I. B. Tauris](/source/I._B._Tauris).
* Khavari, Farid A. (1990). ''Oil and Islam: the Ticking Bomb''. First ed. Malibu, Calif.: Roundtable Publications. viii, 277 p., ill. with maps and charts. {{ISBN|0-915677-55-5}}.
* {{Cite book |title=The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis |publisher=[Syracuse University Press](/source/Syracuse_University_Press) |year=1999 |isbn=978-965-224-040-8 |editor-last=Kramer |editor-first=Martin |editor-link=Martin Kramer}}
* {{Cite book |last=Kuban |first=Dogan |title=Muslim Religious Architecture |publisher=[Brill Academic Publishers](/source/Brill_Academic_Publishers) |year=1974 |isbn=978-90-04-03813-4}}
* {{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=Bernard |url=https://archive.org/details/islamwest00lewi_0 |title=Islam and the West |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-19-509061-1}}
* {{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=Bernard |url=https://archive.org/details/culturesinconfli0000lewi |title=Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-19-510283-3 |url-access=registration}}
* {{Cite book |last=Mubarkpuri |first=Saifur-Rahman |title=The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Prophet |publisher=[Dar-us-Salam Publications](/source/Dar-us-Salam_Publications) |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-59144-071-0}}
* {{Cite book |last=Najeebabadi |first=Akbar Shah |title=History of Islam |publisher=[Dar-us-Salam Publications](/source/Dar-us-Salam_Publications) |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-59144-034-5}}
* {{Cite book |last=Sayilgan |first=Salih |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/god-evil-and-suffering-in-islam/C4C89591ADAAF25F104D517C4F4634B3 |title=God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam |publisher=[Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) |year=2023 |isbn=9781009377294}}
* {{Cite book |last=Schimmel |first=Annemarie |url=https://www.giffordlectures.org/books/deciphering-signs-god-phenomenological-approach-islam |title=Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam |publisher=[State University of New York Press](/source/State_University_of_New_York_Press) |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-7914-1982-3 |author-link=Annemarie Schimmel |access-date=31 January 2019 |archive-date=22 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422154518/https://www.giffordlectures.org/books/deciphering-signs-god-phenomenological-approach-islam |url-status=dead}}
* {{Cite book |last=Schuon |first=Frithjof |title=Understanding Islam |publisher=[Allen & Unwin](/source/Allen_%26_Unwin) |year=1963 |isbn=978-0941532242 |edition=3rd |author-link=Frithjof Schuon}}
* {{Cite book |last=Stoddard |first=Lothrop |title=The New World of Islam |publisher=[Chapman & Hall](/source/Chapman_%26_Hall) |year=1922 |url=https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24107}}
* {{Cite book |last=Walker |first=Benjamin |title=Foundations of Islam: The Making of a World Faith |publisher=[Peter Owen Publishers](/source/Peter_Owen_Publishers) |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-7206-1038-3 |author-link=Benjamin Walker (author)}}
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== External links ==
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* [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Islam "Islam"]. ''Encyclopædia Britannica''
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/index.shtml Religion & Ethics – Islam] A number of introductory articles on Christianity from the BBC
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