Islam

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Contents

[edit] Etymology and meaning

[edit] Ten Things Worth Knowing about Islam

  • A brief survey which can serve as a reminder of both the complexity and opportunities inherent in communicating the gospel to Muslims. Read the article in EMQ

[edit] History

[edit] Early years and the establishment of the Rashidun caliphate

[edit] Founding

Islam was founded by Mohammed (570-632) who believed himself to be the mouth-piece of God. His followers consider him a Prophet and his revelations to be compiled in the Koran. Mohammed referred to the supreme God as Allah. He knew much about Judaism and a little about Christianity and was influenced by both, honoring Jesus as a Prophet but refusing to consider him the Son of God as this would, in his opinion, denigrate the greatness and uniqueness of God. Thus some Christian missiologists consider Islam to be a Christian heresy but the vast majority of Muslims would consider Islam to be a fresh and unique revelation, and not a reinterpretation of Christianity.

[edit] Emergence of hereditary caliphates

[edit] Fragmentation

[edit] Zikri Baluch

[edit] The Crusades and the Mongol invasions

[edit] Rise of the Ottomans

[edit] Formation of modern nation-states

[edit] Beliefs

[edit] God

[edit] Qur'an

[edit] The Prophet

[edit] Sunnah

[edit] Angels

[edit] Resurrection and judgement

[edit] Divine decree

[edit] Five Pillars of Islam

[edit] Shahadah

[edit] Salah

Prayer

[edit] Zakat

Alms Tax

[edit] Sawm

Fasting

[edit] Ramadan

[edit] Hajj

Pilgrimage to Mecca

[edit] Islamic law

The Shariah In General

[edit] Community

[edit] Mosques

[edit] Ethics

[edit] Customs and behavioral laws

[edit] Islamic calendar

[edit] Festivals

[edit] Jihad

Holy War

[edit] Denominations

[edit] Sunni

[edit] Shi'a

  • The Shi'a, number between 130 to 195 million, or 10-15 percent of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims, according to "The Shi'a Revival". Shiites live throughout the Middle East, to the Persian Gulf, and in Central and South Asia.

[edit] Sufism

[edit] Wahhabi

[edit] Others

[edit] Islamic civilization

[edit] Art and architecture

[edit] Philosophy and literature

[edit] Science and technology

[edit] Islamic universities

  • The evolving world of Islamic universities has become a major challenge for Christians. The mission of Islamic education is to establish Quranic values and promote Islamic rule and influence worldwide through university community life and studies.

[edit] Modern Islam

[edit] Demographics

[edit] Modern interpretations

[edit] Current Status

Remarkably, while Islam started the century in 1900 numerically far behind Christianity, its impressive gains caused it to end up in 2000 as the second largest global religion. While Christianity remained essentially static, with gains in some regions offset by losses in others, Islam managed to preserve its position in nearly all the regions it began with, while adding small increments in new regions. Islam, it should be noted, is the only religion that is gaining in its proportion of the global population: the nonreligious also made gains but have for the most part lost their momentum, and all other global faiths are static.

Islam’s gains have been due in many regions to demography: Africa and Western Asia, where Islam is strongest, simply have had a very high birth rate. It has advanced in other regions through the twin forces of immigration and Islamic missions. Many new mosques and copies of the Koran have been funded in part by billions of dollars of oil wealth.

Between 1900 and 1975, Muslims maintained their proportion in North and South of Africa while doubling in the Middle and West and nearly doing the same in the East. Although Muslims posted gains in Asia, they did not do so at nearly the same rate except in the Western “Stans.” Although Muslims form a very small part of Europe, they increased this portion and had similarly small increases in Latin America and North America. Only in the Pacific did Muslims for the most part fail to make any significant advance.

This situation is not likely to change by 2025. Islam will probably remain the overwhelming majority in North Africa and West Asia, where it is completely integrated into the culture. it is and will likely continue to be even with Christianity in West Africa, and will make up slightly more than 5% in Europe. The primary reason for this projection is the high birth rate in the Muslim world, the degree to which Muslim nations insulate their populations from other religious or non-religious influences, and the relative lack of any Christian outreach to Muslims.

[edit] Islam and Christianity

[edit] Compare

[edit] The God and Allah

[edit] The Qu'ran and the Bible

[edit] Jesus and The Prophet

[edit] The Cross of Christ

[edit] Miracles

[edit] Law and Grace

[edit] Jugdment

[edit] Sin

[edit] Salvation

[edit] Love your enemy

[edit] Ethics

[edit] The second coming of Christ

[edit] The Gospel of Barnabas and other books against the Gospel

[edit] How to win Muslims for Christ?

[edit] Moslem background believers

[edit] Resources

You find resources for the ministry under "Resources for outreach to Moslems".

Karl Gottlieb Pfander has written three books about Islam and comparing Islam with the Bible. See under Karl Gottlieb Pfander.

[edit] External Links

A lot of books and radio programs you will find by Call of Hope: *[1]

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