Islam, major world religion promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century CE. The Arabic term islām, literally “surrender,” illuminates the fundamental religious idea of Islam—that the believer (called a Muslim, from the active particle of islām) accepts surrender to the will of Allah (in Arabic, Allāh: God). Allah is viewed as the sole God—creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world. The will of Allah, to which human beings must submit, is made known through the sacred scriptures, the Qurʾān (often spelled Koran in English), which Allah revealed to his messenger, Muhammad. In Islam Muhammad is considered the last of a series of prophets (including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Solomon, and Jesus), and his message simultaneously consummates and completes the “revelations” attributed to earlier prophets.
Retaining its emphasis on an uncompromising monotheism and a strict adherence to certain essential religious practices, the religion taught by Muhammad to a small group of followers spread rapidly through the Middle East to Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, and China. By the early 21st century there were more than 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide. Although many sectarian movements have arisen within Islam, all Muslims are bound by a common faith and a sense of belonging to a single community.
Mahdi, Muhsin S. , Rahman, Fazlur and Schimmel, Annemarie. "Islam". Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Islam.
The Muslim Students Association at WPI is a student run organization which aims to provide religious assistance to all the Muslim students on campus. It is open to all campus students and is present to promote the Islamic culture, knowledge, and to provide a sense of community. It assists Muslim students at WPI to organize themselves for Islamic activities, carry out Islamic programs and projects and to promote educational programs that will help establish a relationship between the Muslim students and the WPI community that is based on mutual respect and understanding.
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Science, Religion and Art in Islam by American Muslim Project
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