Islam FactSheet
- Founder:
- Muhammad
- Born in Mecca in 570 AD
- Founded:
- Approximately 610 AD
- Founding Occasion:
- Muhammad claimed to receive revelations from the angel Gabriel.
- Headquarters:
- Mecca is the center of the Islamic world
- Membership:
- 1,780,000,000
- Splinters:
- Sunni
- Shiite
- Ahmadiyya
- Druze
- Ahmdiyan
- Ishmailites
- Zaidites
- Sufi
- Nation of Islam
- Moorish Science Temple
- Five Percenters
- Sacred Texts:
- The Quran (also spelled Koran or Qur’an)
- Sunnah
- Nahjul Balagha
- Official Website:
- None
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