... in South and South East Asia, even though the religion began in Arabia. Several million Muslims live here in the United States of America (Vincent J Cornell, 2001). The Holy Book of Islam is called the Qur"an. The Qur"an is said to be the very word of Allah (Ismail K. Poonawala, 2001). The word Allah is Arabic for God and the word Qur"an means recitation. Islam recognizes earlier ... prophets, e.g. Jesus, Moses, Abraham and David. This means that Muslims accept the teachings of both the Jewish Torah and the Christian Gospels. Muslims believe ... Oxford Dictionary of English (2001) defi...

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