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World Religions: Islam

Comparative Religions

Key Terms in Islam

Hajj

Mosque

Allah

Quran

Hadith

Ramadan

Adhan

Alhamdulillah

Muhammad

Salam

Imam

Jihad

Adl

Amanah

Assalamu alaikum

Fatwa

Halal

Definition

Islam - the religious system established through the prophet Muhammad; the Muslim religion; the body of Muslims, the Muslim world.

 

Source: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

Websites

Islam: Empire of Faith

Islam and Islamic Studies Resources
Resources compiled by Prof Godlas at U. of Georgia

Primary Source Documents

Harvard’s Islamic Heritage Project (IHP) is a digital collection religious texts and commentaries; Sufism; history, geography, law, and the sciences (astronomy, astrology, mathematics, medicine); poetry and literature; rhetoric, logic, and philosophy; calligraphy, dictionaries and grammar, as well as biographies and autobiographical works from the 13th to the 20th centuries CE, primarily in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish.