slam<br />Home<br />Philosophy & Religion<br />Scriptures<br />Islam<br />religion<br />Alternate titles: Al-Islām<br />Written by <br />, <br />, <br />See All<br />Fact-checked by <br />Last Updated: Apr 1, 2023 • Article History<br />Recent News<br />Apr. 1, 2023, 9:12 AM ET (AP)<br />Lanterns and crescents: more retailers court Ramadan buyers<br />For this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Target rolled out its first dedicated Ramadan and Eid, or feast, collection, including decorations<br />Mar. 29, 2023, 8:11 AM ET (AP)<br />Portugal: Muslim center stabbings not seen as terror attack<br />Authorities in Portugal say the fatal stabbings of two women at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon are not being treated as a potential act of terrorism<br />Summary<br />Read a brief summary of this topic<br />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.