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The population of what is nowadays Iran and what is nowadays Azerbaijan were converted to Shia Islam at the same moment [clarification needed] in history. [9] [page needed] As elsewhere in the Muslim world, the two branches of Islam came into conflict in Azerbaijan. [8]
The Bibi-Heybat Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan. Islam is the majority religion in Azerbaijan, but the country is considered to be the most secular in the Muslim world. [5] Estimates include 97.3% (The World Factbook, 2020) [6] and 99.2% (Pew Research Center, 2006) [7] of the population identifying as Muslim.
Population of Azerbaijan according to ethnic group 1926–2019 [22] [23] [24] Ethnic group Census 1926 1 Census 1939 2 Census 1959 3 Census 1970 4 Census 1979 5 ...
South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. [22] [23] [24] Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million ...
Azerbaijan has an estimated population of approximately 10.4 million. Nearly 96 percent of the population is Muslim, out of which 65% is Shia and 35% is Sunni.
The same research center reported in 2010 that 96.9% of the population is Muslim, and less than 1% of people do not consider themselves as affiliated to any of the religions. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] According to Crabtree, Pelham (2009), Azerbaijan is in the list of 11 least religious countries in the world with only 21% people saying that religion ...
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said that from September Baku will begin to resettle the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, whose majority ethnically Armenian population fled after Azeri forces took ...
Freedom of religion in Azerbaijan is substantially curtailed. [1] [2] The Azerbaijan government, which follows a strictly secular and anti-religious ideology, represses all religions. [1] The majority of the population in Azerbaijan is Muslim, mainly Shia. According to Michigan State University political scientist Ani Sarkissian, "the ...