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| Foundation |
| Date Founded |
622 CE |
Place Founded |
Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| Founder |
Muhammad |
Adherents |
1,300 million |
| Major Sects |
Sunni, Shiite and Sufi |
| Main Locations |
Middle East and North Africa
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| Sacred Objects, Rituals and Locations |
| Sacred texts |
Qur'an (Koran) |
| Original language |
Arabic |
| Spiritual leaders |
sheikh (Sunni), imam (Shi'ite) |
| Place of worship |
mosque |
| Day of worship |
Every day, but Friday evening prayers now has greater emphasis |
| Major holidays |
• Ramadan - month long
• Eid al-Fitr - Festival of Breaking the Fast
• Hajj - week long; begins 1 Muharram
• Eid al-Adha - Festival of Sacrifice |
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| Fundamental philosophy |
| Theism ("god") |
Monotheism |
| Ultimate reality |
God (Allah in Arabic); the same God revealed in the Jewish and Christian Bibles |
| Purpose of life |
Submit to the will of Allah and attain paradise after death |
| How to live |
Follow the Qur'an, Hadith and Five Pillars of Islam |
| Afterlife |
Resurrection of body and soul followed by eternal paradise or hell |
| Cosmology |
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| Laws and commandments |
| Five Pillars |
1. Confession of faith (shahada)
2. Daily prayer (salat)
3. Alms tax (zakat)
4. Pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj)
5. Fasting during Ramadan (sawm) |
| Seveners |
Shi'ite denomination holding that the legitimate line of imams ended with the seventh.
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| Twelvers |
Majority Shi'ite denomination that reveres the Twelve Imams.
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| Twelve Imams |
1. Ali
2. Al-Hasan
3. al-Husain
4. Ali Zayn al-Abidin
5. Muhammad al-Baqir
6. Ja'far al-Sadiq
7. Musa al-Kazim
8. Ali al-Rida
9. Muhammad al-Taqi
10. Ali al-Naqi
11. al-Hasan al-Askari
12. Muhammad al-Mahdi |
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