Islam is also discussed in articles on individual countries or on regions in which the religion is a factor, such as Egypt, Iran, Arabia, and North Africa. The literature, music, dance, and visual arts of Muslim peoples are treated in the article Islamic arts. The Muslim religion and the life of the Prophet Muhammad are treated specifically in the article Islam. Despite the absence of large-scale Islamic political entities, the Islamic faith continues to expand, by some estimates faster than any other major religion. Arabs account for fewer than one-fifth of all Muslims, more than half of whom live east of Karachi, Pakistan. Islamic world, also called Islamdom, the complex of societies and cultures in which Muslims and their faith have been prevalent and socially dominant.Īdherence to Islam is a global phenomenon: Muslims predominate in some 30 to 40 countries, from the Atlantic eastward to the Pacific and along a belt that stretches across northern Africa into Central Asia and south to the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent.
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