ABSTRACT
Islam is the state religion of Jordan and the King is the head of the state religion. In the Islamic faith the previous great prophets of the world, such as Buddha and the Christ, are regarded as deserving reverence for themselves, but Mohammed is thought of as the greatest of all the prophets, summing up in his revelations a way of life and a teaching finer than had been expounded before. At any rate in the last century of Ottoman rule, apart from the ultimate crime of rebellion, the people were allowed freely to pursue their own faith and habitations. The Islamic faith was carried by diplomacy and the sword into Europe through Spain, into what is the Soviet Union, across Africa, and across the whole of the Arabian Peninsula into what is today Pakistan. The whole of Jordan is one people in the religious sense to an even greater extent than they are in the political or economical sense.
