Islam, major world religion promulgated by the ProphetMuhammad in Arabia in the 7th centuryce. The Arabic termislām, literally “surrender,” illuminates the fundamental religious idea of Islam—that the believer (called a Muslim, from the active particle ofislām) accepts surrender to the will ofAllah (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 thesacred scriptures, theQurʾān (often spelled Koran in English), which Allah revealed to his messenger,Muhammad. In Islam Muhammad is... (100 of 29,257 words)