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Islam Notes: Religions called Islam. The followers are Muslims They worship in a Mosque The holy book is the Quaran Important festivals include; Eid ul Fitr and Eid ul Adha The founder is Prophet Mohammed There are around 1.3 billion Muslims in the world; also it is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Islam was founded 610ad by a man named Mohammed who was born about 570ad in Mecca. He grew up to be a respectable trader, Husband and father. He was also known as “the trusted one” but he was not very happy. In this time polytheism reigned (people worshipping many Gods) and he thought this was wrong. On a trip he took he had a vision of an angel who said “There is only one God and his name is Allah, Worship him”. After this he began to preach this message. Mohammed continued to have revelations (visions) throughout his life. These revelations were passed on by word of mouth as Mohammed could not read or write. After his death they were written down and named the Quaran which is their Holy Book. This Holy book is what they believed to be the word of Allah which was written in Arabic. Muslims try to memorize it off by heart