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The Office of the Waqf Administrator (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ ওয়াক্ফ প্রশাসকের কার্যালয়) is a Bangladesh government regulatory agency under the Ministry of Religious Affairs responsible for administration of Waqf properties. According to Islam, individuals can permanently donate ...
Islam is the largest and the state religion of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. [1] [2] According to the 2022 census, Bangladesh had a population of about 150 million Muslims, or 91.04% [3] of its total population of 165 million. [4] Muslims of Bangladesh are predominant native Bengali Muslims.
According to Islamic law, once an asset has been donated as waqf it cannot be sold, transferred or given as a gift. [9] Once a waqif has verbally or in writing declared a waqf property, it is legally conceived as the property of Allah and must be used to "fulfill public of family needs" as a charitable social service. [10]
These initiatives resulted in a positive trend in the real estate business of Bangladesh. [6] The sector has contributed 7.8% to the country's GDP in this year, amounting BDT 1.415 trillion. [11] In 2020, the real estate market value in Bangladesh was BDT 50,000 crore with 15-17% of the market share. [12]
[4] [5] According to the census, Hindus constituted 8.5 per cent of the population as of 2011, down from 9.6 per cent in the 2001 census. Bangladesh has a population of 144,043,697 as per the 2011 census report.
According to the census, Hindus were 9.2 per cent of the population, down from 10.5 per cent as of 1991. [3] The census data were collected from January 23 to 27, 2001. The 2001 census was the first in Bangladesh to use optical mark recognition (OMR) technology. [4] Bangladesh had a population of 124,355,263 as per the 2001 census report.
Daniel Dennett has shown that other factors, such as desire to retain social status, had greater influence on this choice in the early Islamic period. [237] According to Halil İnalcık, the wish to avoid paying the jizya was an important incentive for conversion to Islam in the Balkans, though Anton Minkov has argued that it was only one among ...
Islami Bishwakosh (Bengali: ইসলামী বিশ্বকোষ, romanized: Islāmī Bishshokōsh, lit. 'Islamic encyclopedia') is an encyclopedia published by the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. It is of 25 volumes and also a concise version. The project's leading founder was Abdul Haque Faridi, a Bangladeshi educator and scholar.