RL ST 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abbasid Caliphate, Alms, The Sufis
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China, africa, india: islam is a world religion found in such places as europe, there are approx. 1. 5 billion muslims: islam is the 2nd largest religion in the world, it is one of the fastest growing religions in the us, only a minority of muslims are arabs living in the middle east, misconception! Only 20% of all muslims in the world are (20%) arabs living in the middle east: the most populated islamic country is indonesia, not a middle eastern country. Relationship of islam to judaism: islam sees itself worshiping the same god as christians and jews, god of abraham (same abraham, islam includes adam, noah, abraham, moses, king david, king. Solomon, mary, jesus: but according to islam, judaism has deviated from the true monotheistic teachings, islam rejects the idea in judaism as chosen people. Islam rejects that idea of a chosen people.
