REL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Formal System, Louis Farrakhan, Sunnah
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Associated w/the middle east largest muslim populations in south asia: indonesia (has the largest # of muslims of any country in the world; ~200 million), malaysia, bangladesh, pakistan, and india. Seems to be centered on muhammad and his teaching. A deeply spiritual religion centered on the 1 god functions as both a religion and a state. Islamist recent term for muslim radicals, particularly those who espouse violence in the name of islam hanifs pious ones, a small group of arab monotheists who was devoted to the worship of. Allah the common, generic arabic word for god. Islam has a strict, absolute form of monotheism, because god is seen as 1 and 1 only. So muslims reject all forms of polytheism as false religions, and other gods as false. idolatry shirk; acknowledging other gods besides the 1 and only god the worst sin.
