Islam. The creed and religious practices. 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented. Zhuravsky A.V.

This book about the youngest world's theistic religion, the number of followers of which in the modern world is 1.6 billion people, or 23% of the world's population. The purpose of the author is to give the reader the initial ideas about the Holy Scriptures of Muslims - the Qur'an, the Holy Tradition - Sunnah, about Islamic law - Sharia, about cult practices, creed provisions about God, man, angels, prophets, ideas about the latest court and predestination. In the applications, the reader will find brief information about the main directions in Islam: Sunnism, Shiism, Haridzhism and Muslim mysticism - Sufism. The book is equipped with a dictionary of Arab terms and a list of recommended literature.

The book is intended for the widest audience interested in religious studies and the Muslim world.