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Islam in Lebanon has a long and continuous history. According to a 2020 estimate by the CIA, it is followed by 69.3% of the country's total population. [3] While a 2022 study by Pew Research puts the number of Muslims in Lebanon at 57.6%. [4] According to the CIA study, Sunnis make up 31.9% while Twelver Shia make up 31.2%.
Lebanon is an eastern Mediterranean country that has the most religiously diverse society within the Middle East, recognizing 18 religious sects. [2] [3] The recognized religions are Islam (Sunni, Shia, Alawites, and Isma'ili), Druze, Christianity (the Maronite Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, evangelical Protestantism, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the ...
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. US State Dept 2022 report; Rolland, John C. (1 January 2003). Lebanon: Current Issues and Background. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers. pp. 213– 216. ISBN 978-1-59033-871-1. Grafton, David (2003). The Christians of Lebanon: Political Rights in Islamic Law.
Lebanese Sunni Muslims are concentrated in cities of west Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon and in north Lebanon in the Akkar and Minnieh Dinnieh districts, middle and West Bekaa, Chouf district and Laqlouq in Mount Lebanon, Hasbaya district, and Northeastern Beqaa Valley mainly in and around the city of Arsal. [20]
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The Islamic Group is a Sunni Islamist group founded in 1964 as the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It supports the idea of establishing a legal order in Lebanon that is based on Islamic shari'a. As a local branch it closely follows the doctrines of the Muslim Brotherhood. [43]
The Lebanon Democrat is a daily newspaper based in Lebanon, a town of more than 32,000 in the central part of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is published by Lebanon Publishing Co., which is owned by Paxton Media Group.
The Wilson Post was founded in June 2003 with the launch of its website. [1] The newspapers has received multiple awards from the Tennessee Press Association, including for general overall excellence in 2015 and 2017, [2] [3] and multiple special awards for different sections in 2018.