communities in the United States, Islam is foreign to most Americans who are

familiar with Christianity or Judaism. Because most Americans know little or

nothing about Islam, they have many misconceptions about Muslim beliefs and

rituals. The negative image many people in the United States and Europe have

of Islam and the Muslim world has a long history. Many have judged Islam

without making an effort to consider this religious tradition on its own terms,

without bothering to become acquainted with its teaching and the ways in which

Muslims practice their faith.

Like Judaism and Christianity, Islam is a monotheistic religion, based

on the belief in one God. The Prophet Muhammad proclaimed this religion

in Arabia, in the 7th century A.D. The term Islam virtually means "surrender".

Within Islam the believer (called a Muslim) use the Arabic word for God, Allah,

to refer to the creato

was in large a black separatist and social-protest movement. Their leader,

death of Malcolm X in 1965 and the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975, many blacks

In todays society many have come to believe that we live in a secular

During the earliest decades after the death of the Prophet, certain

institution but also an Islamic law, state, and other institutions governing

basic features of the religio-social organizations of Islam were singled out.

temporal aspects of life. Islam also seeks to regulate not only the

people. The popular leader and advocate Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz)

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