Muhammad

Muhammad was born in Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula in 571. He founded a new religion, called `Islam´. He come from a family of rich merchants. He was a prophet and messenger of God, in the same vein as other Islamic prophets. Muhammad is almost universally considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God to mankind. Muslims consider him to have restored the unaltered original monotheistic faith. Non-Muslims regard Muhammad as the founder of Islam. Muhammad was orphaned at an early age. He occasionally he would retreat to a cave in the mountains for several nights of seclusion and prayer. In 622 Muhammad escaped from Mecca. He went to the city of Medina. This is Known as Hijra (flight in Arabic). It marks the beginning of Muslims  and the Islamic calendor. Muhammad converted the people of Medina to Islam.

The book of Islam is the Koram: