Is Islam an Arab Religion

Answer 1

A:The Abrahamic religions are Judaism and the offshoots of Judaism, all of which believe in the existence of Abraham and the God of Abraham. Islam teaches that Abraham was a prophet of Islam, and it is therefore an Abrahamic religion.

Answer 2

No, because only 16% of world Muslims are Arabs. However, I wonder of the question and its purpose. Could you ask is Christianity an American or European religion? of course not. Islam religion followers are spread allover the world.

Answer

Islam, the religion, developed in the same areas that Christianity and Judiasm began. The Ottoman Empire spread Islam throughout the Middle East and southern Europe, around 1299. By the 1700's, Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, Caucasus, North Africa and the Horn of Africa were part of the large trading area of the empire. Of course, Arab/Muslim culture spread throughout those areas and co-existed with the conquered areas' people.

Answer 3

There are several ways to understand this question and these interpretations changes the answer:

(1) Are most Muslims Arabs? -- No. Between 15-20% of Muslims are Arabs. The largest "racial" category of Muslims is actually South Asians. With over a half billion South Asian Muslims - roughly 30% of Muslims, they are more numerous than Arab Muslims. However, Muslims come in all skin colors and from all corners of the globe; it is, like Christianity, a worldwide religion.

(2) Is Islam designed to be a religion exclusively for Arabs? -- No. Islam came down and has been taught as a universal faith for people of all times and all places. There has never been a case where Muslims have resisted converting a person to Islam on account of culture or race.

(3) Are Islam's sources mostly in the Arabic language? -- Yes. The Qur'an, Hadith Collections, and the Sira (Biography of Prophet Muhammad) are all written in Arabic as are most exegetical texts (tafsirs and khutbas) on the Islamic Sources.

(4) Is Islam a religion that has a predominance of Arab cultural features? -- Yes. Much of the tribalism and Arabian culture of the 7th century has become part of Islam due to the incorporation of the Hadith Collections and Sira as source material for Islamic Legal Jurisprudence. Additionally, the requirement to read the Qur'an in Arabic, has given Arab culture a central place in interpreting the doctrines of Islam.

(5) Is Islam currently dominated by Arab discourse? -- Yes. This comes from both the fact that Islam has predominant Arab cultural features and from the fact that the relative wealth of some Arab countries (like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, and Kuwait) has allowed them to expend exorbitant funds on promoting their versions of Islam worldwide. However, if a different region of the Islamic World suddenly became wealthy, this region could become the culturally dominant center of Islam. It is only pure happenstance that oil has made the Arab countries wealthy and, therefore, the center of Islamic culture in today's world.