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In the United States, various states have outlawed Sharia, or passed some form of ballot measure that prohibits state courts from considering foreign, international or religious law in their decisions. As of 2014 these include Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee. [94]
Approximately 1% of North America population are Muslims, and 0.1% of Latin America and Caribbean population are Muslims. [ 1 ] Suriname has the highest percentage of Muslims in its population for the region, with 13.9% or 75,053 individuals, according to its 2012 census. [ 2 ]
The other existing groups include Zaydi Shi'a of Yemen whose population is around 0.5% of the world's Muslim population, Musta’li Ismaili (with nearly 0.1% [35] whose Taiyabi adherents reside in Sindh and Gujarat in South Asia.
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%) after Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.4%). [2] The 2020 United States Religion Census estimates that there are about 4,453,908 Muslim Americans of all ages living in the United States in 2020, making up 1.34% of the total U.S. population. [1]
This article includes a list of successive Islamic states and Muslim dynasties beginning with the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (570–632 CE) and the early Muslim conquests that spread Islam outside of the Arabian Peninsula, and continuing through to the present day. [citation needed]
Shia Islam in the United States (1 C, 5 P) Sufism in the United States (1 C, 5 P) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
A recent advocate for Pan-Islamism was late Turkish prime minister and founder of Millî Görüş movement Necmettin Erbakan, who championed the Pan-Islamic Union (İslam Birliği) idea and took steps in his government toward that goal by establishing the Developing 8 Countries (or D8, as opposed to G8) in 1996 with Turkey, Egypt, Iran ...
Jizya (Arabic: جِزْيَة, romanized: jizya), or jizyah, [1] is a type of taxation historically levied on non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law. [2] The Quran and hadiths mention jizya without specifying its rate or amount, [3] and the application of jizya varied in the course of Islamic history. However, scholars largely ...