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Islam is a major religious minority in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe. [2] According to the US Department of State in 2017, [3] Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population.
Pages in category "Russian Shia Muslims" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Geydar Dzhemal; E.
Shaykh al-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. January 10, 2001. According to the charter, the head of the Caucasian Muslims Office must be a Shia and his deputy a Sunni. This is the only such hierarchy among the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the former Soviet Union.
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Among the non-Christians, 9,400,000 or 6.5% of the population were Muslims (including Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, and a majority of unaffiliated Muslims), 1,700,000 or 1.2% were pagans (including Rodnovery, Assianism, and other religions) or Tengrists (Turco-Mongol Shamanic religions and new religions), 700,000 or 0.5% were Buddhists (mostly of ...
Sunni Islam is the predominant religion in Chechnya, practiced by 95% of those polled in Grozny ... more than 150,000 people still remain displaced in Russia today. ...
During this time, Islam was the country's second-largest religion; 90% of Muslims in the Soviet Union were adherents of Sunni Islam, with only around 10% adhering to Shia Islam. Excluding the Azerbaijan SSR, which had a Shia-majority population, all of the Muslim-majority Union Republics had Sunni-majority populations. [1]
Russia 50 < 0.1 < 0.1 ... Shia Muslims in the Arab world; Other religions: BaháΚΌí Faith by country; Buddhism by country; Christianity by country;