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This article includes a list of successive Islamic states and Muslim dynasties beginning with the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (570–632 CE) and the early Muslim conquests that spread Islam outside of the Arabian Peninsula, and continuing through to the present day.
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Eligible to play for either Germany [21] or Turkey, [213] after long consideration, [214] [215] [216] Özil chose to play for his country of birth, Germany. [217] In September 2006, he was called up for the Germany under-17 team. He was a member of the German under-21 team from 2007.
India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million adherents. [25] The Middle East-North Africa region hosts 23% of the world's Muslims, and Islam is the dominant religion in every country in the region [26] other than Israel. [12]
The following is a list of countries in the Middle East sorted by projected population. Table. Rank Country (or dependent territory) 2020 projection [1] % of pop.
1945 – Leaders of seven states in the Middle East sign the Alexandria Protocol, thus establishing the first Organization with a Pan-Arabic ideology in the 20th century. The founding members were Egypt , Iraq , Lebanon , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Jordan (entering under the name of Transjordan ), and Yemen (which from 1967 was generally known ...
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation founded in 1969 has 57 members, 56 of which are also member states of the United Nations, with 48 countries having a Muslim majority. Some member countries, especially in West Africa and South America, such as Ivory Coast, Guyana, Gabon, Mozambique, Nigeria, Suriname, Togo and Uganda – though with large ...
In the Eastern Middle East, Iran has a high level of youth literacy at 98%, [250] but Iraq's youth literacy rate has sharply declined from 85% to 57% during the American-led war and subsequent occupation. [251] Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, has a 99% youth literacy rate. [252]