Islam

"submission" to God.

a holy city of Islam. Kabbah. Adam/Abraham. Muhammad born here.

a holy city of Islam. Hijra (migration). The first mosque. Muhammad buried there.

"Peace be upon him" (pbuh). Angel Gabriel appeared to him and told him to "recite" what Allah was telling him. Rededicated the Kabbah to Allah.

was willing to sacrifice Ishmael. Rejected the devil.

Ishmael's mother. Thrown out into the desert. God provided water.

month of fasting and commemoration of the giving of the Qur'an.

"party" or "followers" of Ali, holding that Muhammad's true successors descended from his son-in-law Ali.

"people of the tradition," the majority of Muslims.

leader of prayer in a Sunni mosque, or the religious-political leader of a Shi'a community.