Islam was a new religion, that Muhammad created even though not all the teachings were new. " The messages Muhammad received form the basics of the religion called Islam. The word ' Islam' means, ' to submit to God." ( From " Medieval to Early Times" world history book by Stanley M. Burstein and Richard Shek )
If you believed in the Islamic religion, you were called a Muslim. The messages Muhammad received were put into a book called, ' Qur'an '. It was their holy book. In A.D. 632 Muhammad sadly died but Islam continued to spread though out the world.
