rming in Arabia. Therefore, the belief in one god was not completely unfamiliar to the Arabs when Muhammad began to preach. Rather than being completely new, Islam is a continuation of the worship of one, single god that had been started by the Jews. Muhammad told the people that God had sent him "to restore the religion of Abraham to its original form" (Glubb, 1965, p. 19). As Muhammad said, he was the Seal of the Prophets. This meant that he was the last one in a long line of prophets that began with Adam and included Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. But, according to Muhammad, the Israelites had changed God
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