By Joe Darlington
The singular contribution of Islam to the concept of religion or theology is that it killed the idea of God, if he did exist, continuing to send down prophets to Earth to guide mankind.
Islam, in its first recitation in the Quran, clearly states (like Buddhism) that there is no God but the religion holds that if a God did exist, then he would have certain attributes. The religion refers to the 1001 known attributes of God and this figure is sometimes mistakenly referred to as the various names by which God is called.