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Ramadan is the most holy time of year for Islam. They show their love to Allah through personal sacrifice and self discipline. In the ninth month of the Islamic year, all Muslims fast for the entire month.

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  • History of Ramadan
    History of Ramadan

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    Ramadan is the most holy time of year for Islam. They show their love to Allah through personal sacrifice and self discipline. In the ninth month of the Islamic year, all Muslims fast for the entire month.

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  • Principles of Islam
    Principles of Islam

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    In this video clip, learn about the Islamic traditions. We learn about the beginnings of the Islamic religion. Muhammad, the prophet, spoke to Allah and was told to tell the people to worship only him.

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  • Traditional Islamic Prayers
    Traditional Islamic Prayers

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    In this video clip, learn about the Islamic tradition of praying. Every day, Muslims have to pray five times towards their holy city of Mecca. They repeat the words that their prophet Muhammad gave to them a long time ago.

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  • Muhammed's Revelation
    Muhammed's Revelation

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    In this video clip, learn about the Islamic traditions. Ramadan is a celebration that remembers what their prophet Muhammad did. Muhammad went to a cave and fasted for forty days. Then his life was changed.

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  • Who Was Muhammad?
    Who Was Muhammad?

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    The life of Muhammad is explored in this video clip from The History Channel series Ramadan. An orphan till the age of eight when he was taken in by an uncle, he was part of the Quraysh tribe, which was the primary tribe in Mecca.

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  • Allah's Messenger and the Koran
    Allah's Messenger and the Koran

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    Muhammad ibn Abdullah was an Arab business man who was visited by an angel in the year 610 and told he would be a messenger of the gods. He waited, but received no messages to pass on.

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  • 1955 Ramadan Ceremony
    1955 Ramadan Ceremony

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    Rewind Breaking News The History Channel: Newsreel scenes from the most important Islamic ceremony marking the end of Ramadan at Woking Mosque in Surrey, England. This video clip is courtesy of The History Channel.

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