Muslims performing salah (prayer)
TajMahal-Agra-India-built during Moghul period
Islam ( اإسلام; al-'islām, Arabic), is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th-century Arab religious and political figure. The word Islam means "submission", or the total surrender of oneself to God. (Arabic: An adherent of Islam is known as a Muslim, meaning "one who submits (to God)".
World population[]
There are between 1.1 billion and 1.8 billion Muslims, making Islam the second-largest religion in the world after Christianity.
Partition of British India[]
One of the determinants of the creation of the separate republics of India and Pakistan was the fact that most people in Pakistan were followers of Islam.
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