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According to the 2012 European Social Survey, the population of Kosovo was about 88% Muslim, 5.8% Catholic, 2.9% Eastern Orthodox, 2.9% irreligious, 0.1% Protestant and 0.4% another religion. [8] In 2010, according to Pew Research Center, Kosovo had 93.8% Muslims and 6.1% Christians (mainly Orthodox but also Catholics and even Protestants).
From 1389 until 1912, Kosovo was officially governed by the Muslim Ottoman Empire and a high level of Islamization occurred among Catholic and Orthodox Albanians, mainly due to Sufi orders and socio-political opportunism. Both Christian and Muslim Albanians intermarried and some lived as "Laramans", also known as Crypto-Christians. [2]
Most Albanians in Kosovo are Muslim. [50] [10] Almost all Muslims in Kosovo are Sunni. Sufism is the main form of Islam practised. [50] Dervishes are shunned by the official government-supported Islam. [50] The Serb population is largely Serbian Orthodox.
Each regional mufti was subordinate to the Sheykhul-Islam. During the period 1941 to 1956, the faith community in Kosova joined the Albanian Muslim community (Albanian: Komuniteti Mysliman i Shqipërisë, which was headed by the Grand Mufti based in Tirana. After the First World War, Kosovo was placed under the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and ...
An estimated 1.68% of the Texas population is Muslim, making it the fifth largest religious group in the state and first in the nation in number of Muslims, according to the Texas Almanac. About ...
English: Map shows the % Muslim population in each nation, worldwide. There are alternate versions of this map available on wikimedia commons. Some use older data and provide a historical map. Some are current, but the above map differs in setting the lower limit of the lightest band to 1%.
Being Muslim in America means… “I think there’s always a certain level of bias initially when people meet you. Especially for me as a Muslim woman, they’ll be surprised. I am a professional and I work in an area that is high-paced and intense. I don’t think people usually envision a Muslim woman in that space.
Despite claims that might rise about radicalism or radicals movements in Kosovo, however, the presence of many international, mainly European, organizations hold that Kosovo Muslims do not define their national identity through religion, but through language and have a relatively relaxed approach towards the observance of the forms of Islam. [14]