Noah in Islam
According to the Quran, Noah (or Nuh) preached faith in Allah for 950 years. Noah is described as a “devotee most grateful.” Muslims consider Noah to be an early prophet of Allah. Allah told Noah to preach to his people to make them abandon idolatry, live good lives and to worship the One God.
The Qur'an states that Noah repeatedly told his people:
“O my people! Worship Allah! You have no other God but Him. I fear for you the punishment of a dreadful day!”
Some people thought Noah was a mere fortune-teller; others thought he was an angel. But the people refused to recognize their sinfulness, so Noah built the Ark and Allah sent the Flood in which all the evil people of his time perished. According to Islamic tradition, one of Noah’s own sons also drowned. The final resting place of the ship was referred to as Mount Judi.
Islam and Noahide Law
The Jewish scholar Maimonides stipulated that Muslims were not idolaters. However, because they do not accept the Torah as part of their sacred scriptures, it is forbidden for Jews to teach Torah to Muslims. Maimonides was also of the opinion that a Muslim cannot be classed as a Noahide because it is forbidden for non-Jews to create a religion. However, many rabbinical authorities accept that because of its strict monotheism and its strong ethical code, Islam is not idolatrous and that Muslims enjoy, at least in part, the status of a Ger Toshav (resident alien).
Approximations of the Seven Laws of Noah can be found in the Quran:
Prohibition of idolatry (and blasphemy)
Do not set up any other god with Allah lest you are rendered humiliated and helpless. Your Lord has decreed do not worship any but Him. (17:22-23)
Prohibition of sexual immorality
And do not approach unlawful sexual intercourse. Indeed, it is ever an immorality and is evil as a way. (17:32)
Prohibition of murder
Do not kill any person whom Allah has forbidden to kill, except with right. (17:33)
Prohibition of theft and commandment to establish courts of justice
And do not even go near the property of the orphan […] Give full measure when ye measure, and weigh with a balance that is straight: that is the most fitting and the most advantageous in the final determination. (17:34-35)
Prohibition of eating flesh taken from an animal while it is still alive
Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, the animal slaughtered in any name other than Allah's, the animal which has either been strangled, killed by blows, has died of a fall, or by goring or devoured by a beast of prey - unless it be that which you yourselves might have slaughtered while it was still alive - and forbidden to you also that which was slaughtered at the altars. (5:3)
Hanifs
In Islam, a person who maintains the pure monotheistic beliefs of the patriarch Abraham (Ibrahim) is known as a Hanif or “upright person.” The ḥanifiyyah is the law of Ibrahim. More specifically, in Islamic thought, a Hanif is a person who in the pre-Islamic period were seen to have rejected idolatry and retained some or all of the tenets of the religion of Abraham (the “ideal original of Arab religion” according to Richard Bell).
According to the Quran, ethical monotheists “avoid the uncleanliness of idols and avoid false statement, inclining [only] to Allah.” (22:30-31)
The views of Sheich Palazzi
Sheich Abdul Hadi Palazzi, leader of the Italian Muslim Assembly, said this at the Conference on Noahide Council in 2006:
“Islamic law holds within it the seven laws of Noah and can be taught correctly to the Muslims of the world... I remember reading that a new Sanhedrin was created in Jerusalem [and] my impression was very positive - I thought maybe something new had been created to allow the Jewish people to project moral and legal clarity to counterbalance the lack of it in our world.”