Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

Muhammad did so to set examples that Islam equates slaves with free human and accepts no discrimination of any kind like race, gender, region, religion etc.

In 1305, after the issuing of a fatwa by the scholar Ibn Taymiyyah calling for jihad against all non-Sunni Muslims like the Druze, Alawites, Ismaili, and twelver Shiites, al-Malik al-Nasir inflicted a disastrous defeat on the Druze at Keserwan and forced outward compliance on their part to orthodox Sunni Islam.

Shia Islam is like a tree whose roots are its beliefs and whose branches are its practices.

Whereas certain religions focus on individuals, like Christianity focuses on Jesus, Islam focuses solely on Allah.

Even during a legitimate jihad, which is fought not by a rag-tag army of misguided youth but by the state against identified aggressors, Islam has set certain principles like you can't harm the old, sick, women and children.

Scholars and observers who do not believe that Islam is a political ideology include Fred Halliday, John Esposito and Muslim intellectuals like Javed Ahmad Ghamidi.

Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab advocated doing away with the later accretions like grave worship and getting back to the letter and the spirit of Islam as preached and practiced by Muhammad.

Sharia law was not only accessible to humans and essential to the existence of Islam, but also all-encompassing, precluding " evil and corrupt " non-Islamic ideologies like socialism, nationalism, or liberal democracy.

The Yao ruling class chose in 1870 to follow Islam like their Arab trading partners rather than the traditional animism.

The Berbers went on to shape Islam in their own image – some ( like the Banu Ifran ) retained their connection with radical puritan Islamic sects, others ( like the Berghwata ) constructed a new syncretic faith which was simply folk religion thinly disguised as Islam.

Isa ( Jesus ) is the result of a virgin birth in Islam as in Christianity, and is regarded as a prophet like the others.

Other books written by him include a biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad titled " First and the Last ", while his other books are focused more on the relation between Islam and science like Miraculous Quran, Life After Death and Doomsday, and Kitab-e-Zindagi ( in Urdu ).

Followers of Islam, or Muslims, have the freedom of choice to be vegetarian for medical reasons or if they do not personally like the taste of meat.

Islam is the religion followed by all the population of Medina, just like most of the cities in Saudi Arabia.

The cleanliness of religious dresses in Eastern Religions like Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam and Jainism is of paramount importance, since it indicates purity.

Later Christian chroniclers and pre-20th century historians praised Charles Martel as the champion of Christianity, characterizing the battle as the decisive turning point in the struggle against Islam, a struggle which preserved Christianity as the religion of Europe ; according to modern military historian Victor Davis Hanson, " most of the 18th and 19th century historians, like Gibbon, saw Poitiers ( Tours ), as a landmark battle that marked the high tide of the Muslim advance into Europe.

Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, traces the genealogy of mankind back to Seth, since Abel did not leave any heirs and Cain's heirs, according to tradition, were destroyed by the Great Flood.

Members of other branches of Islam, like the Sunnis, were just as likely to be appointed to government posts as Shiites.

Suars, like other tribes ( which later converted to Islam ) became Volga Bulgars and later the modern Chuvash ( mostly Christians ) and Tatars ( mostly Muslims ).

Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism and Sikhism, etc., place particular emphasis on altruistic morality.

A History of God: The 4, 000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In addition to his battle against moral decay, Alan wrote a work against Islam, Judaism and Christian heretics dedicated to William VIII of Montpellier.

This model of monotheism became the defining characteristic of post-Exilic Judaism, and became the basis for Christianity and Islam.

The term, however, is notably used to construct the names of religions in Chinese: the terms for Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and other religions in Chinese all end with jiào.

The Chicago Metropolitan Area also includes adherents of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and the Bahá ' í, among others.

In the Judaeo-Christian religions — Judaism, Christianity, Islam — history is taken seriously, and linear time is accepted.

"' Etymythological Othering ' and the Power of ' Lexical Engineering ' in Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Ezekiel is acknowledged as a Hebrew prophet.

For example, only kosher foods are permitted by Judaism, halal foods by Islam, and in Hinduism beef is restricted.

Christianity and Islam inherit most notions of guilt from Judaism, Persian, and Roman ideas, mostly as interpreted through Augustine, who adapted Plato's ideas to Christianity.

Some 16th-century anti-Trinitarian divines sought to reconcile Christianity, Islam and Judaism ; on the basis of very similar arguments to those presented in the Gospel of Barnabas, arguing that if salvation remains unresolved until the end times, then any one of the three religions could be a valid path to heaven for their own believers.

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

Of other religions Islam was at 0. 8 per cent, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism and Hinduism were all at around 0. 1 per cent.

It was the birthplace of monotheism, first of Judaism and later of Christianity and contains sites sacred to several Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Druze and Bahai.

The concept of heaven in Islam differs in many respects to the concept in Judaism and Christianity.

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The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions ( 1999 ) covers 33 principal religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania.

For men, Islam, Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism and other religious groups have at various times recommended or required the covering of the head and sections of the hair of men, and some have dictates relating to the cutting of men's facial and head hair.

In a collection of his works by Kenneth Hart entitled Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity, he argues that both Islam, traditional Judaism, and ancient Greece, share mechanisms that make these traditions more resistant to historicism, and therefore to tyranny.

Though by this time opposition to images was strongly entrenched in Judaism and Islam, attribution of the impetus toward an iconoclastic movement in Eastern Orthodoxy to Muslims or Jews " seems to have been highly exaggerated, both by contemporaries and by modern scholars ".

In this, Islam resembles socially conservative interpretations of other Abrahamic religions such as Judaism and Christianity.

The relationship between Islam and Judaism is special and close.

Jews have interacted with Muslims since the 7th century, when Islam originated and spread in the Arabian peninsula, and many aspects of Islam's core values, structure, jurisprudence and practice are congruent with Judaism.