Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic mu?hammad
‘praiseworthy’ (derived from the verb ?hamida ‘praise’).
This is the name of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad
(570–632). He began to receive spiritual revelations at the age of
40. The Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, was revealed to him by the
Angel Jibril (Gabriel). As a personal name, this name is extremely
common throughout the Muslim world.
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