the reigon islam

: ا is a 1 Abrahamic religions based on the absolute dogma of monotheism (worship of one God without assigning him any partner) and taking its source in the Koran, considered the collection of speech of God (Arabic: الله, Allah) revealed to Muhammad, identified by adherents of Islam as the last prophet of God.2, in the seventh century Arabia. A follower of Islam is called a Muslim. Main difference with the other monotheistic religions, Islam has the foundation and main teaching Tawheed (monotheism, unity and indivisibility), that is to say, it boasts the most pure monotheism where the cult is devoted exclusively to God (without assigning him no son).
Islam wants to be a revelation of the original religion of Adam, Noah, and all the prophets from which it invests as Jésus3. Thus, it is presented as a return on the steps of Abraham (called in Arabic Ibrahim by the Muslims) in terms of belief, the Koran defines as the miles of Abraham (Ibrahim Milla ta) 4 5.6, that is to say an exclusive submission to the will of Allah7,8,9.
The Qur'an recognizes the divine origin of all sacred books of Judaism and christianisme10 while considering they are in their current interpretations, the result of a forgery partielle11: The Suhuf-i-Ibrahim (the sheets Abraham), the Torah (the Pentateuch or Torah), the Zabur of David and Solomon (identified in the Book of Psalms) and the Injil (Gospel).
Besides the Koran, the majority of Muslims refer to the words of transmissions, actions and approvals of Muhammad, stories called hadiths, for the establishment of legal rules (fiqh) for understanding and fulfillment of the Muslim worship everyday. The different branches of Islam do not agree on compilations of hadith to remember as authentic. The Quran and Hadith called "admissible" are two of the four sources of Islamic law, sharia, the other two being unanimously (ijma ') and analogy (qiyas).
In 2010, the number of Muslims in the world is estimated at 1.6 billion, or 23.4% of the population mondiale12, making Islam the second largest religion in the world after Christianity and Hinduism before. That is, chronologically speaking, the third major monotheistic current family of Abrahamic religions, after Judaism and Christianity with whom he has a number of common elements.
Islam is divided into several courants13 including Sunnis, representing between 80 and 85% of musulmans14, Shiism met mainly in Iraq and Iran, and Wahhabism met mainly in Saudi Arabia and Qatar