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Islam is a monotheistic religion, like Christianity and Judaism. The people who practice the Islamic religion are referred to as Muslims. Muslims, like Christians and Jews, believe in one God. And it is the same God in all three religions. As you will learn while reading this article, Islam builds on Christianity and Judaism. Islam first appeared as a religion because of one person: Mohammed. Mohammed was born in 570 AD, so the Islamic religion started around 610 AD when Mohammed began preaching his new faith. Since that time, Islam has spread and now has over one billion followers worldwide. The majority of Muslims today can be found in the Middle East, Africa, Indonesia and some parts of Asia and Eastern Europe, but there are followers in just about every other area of the world as well. There are more than 4 million Muslims the United States alone.The Koran is the holy book of Islam, in the same way that the Torah is the holy book of Judaism and the Christian Bible is the holy book of Christianity. The Koran is the holy word of Allah as spoken to Mohammed. Like the Christian Bible, the Koran is organized by chapters and verses. The Koran contains 114 chapters and over 6,000 verses. According to Mohammed, the book came from Allah to him through dreams, revelations, or spoken by the angel Gabriel over the course of 23 years.Allah is God. Allah is simply a different word for the same being that Christians and Jews worship as God. In the same way that God is sometimes referred to as Yahweh in Judaism, God is referred to as Allah in Islam. Islam rejects the Christian concept of the Trinity (father, son and holy spirit) and believes only in Allah. Allah is the single God and is infinite, omnipresent, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good, merciful and unerring. Allah is the creator of the universe and everything in it.