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The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a majority Muslim country with 96% of the population following Sunni Islam while a small minority follow Shiite branches. There are also about 20,000 to 32,000 Druze living mostly in the north of Jordan, even though most Druze no longer consider themselves Muslim. [1] [2] Many Jordanian Muslims practice Sufism.
Sunni Islam is the dominant religion in Jordan.Muslims make up about 97.2% of the country's population. [1] [2] A few of them are Shiites.Many Shia in Jordan are refugees from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Muslims who convert to other religions often face social ostracism, threats, and abuse from their families and Muslim religious leaders. According to the survey in 2010 by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 86% of Jordanians polled supported the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion .
About 31,163 Yemenis and 22,700 Libyan refugees live in Jordan as of January 2015. [4] There are thousands of Lebanese refugees who came to Jordan when civil strife and war and the 2006 war broke out in their native country. Up to 1 million Iraqis came to Jordan following the Iraq War in 2003. [13] In 2015, their number was 130,911.
Private matters of Muslims are governed by Muslim Law, including marriage, divorce custody and maintenance. Muslim law principles have been codified in the Act No. 13 of 1951 Marriage and Divorce (Muslim) Act; Act No. 10 of 1931 Muslim Intestate Succession Ordinance and Act No. 51 of 1956 Muslim Mosques and Charitable Trusts or Wakfs Act. [194]
Druze in Jordan refers to adherents of the Druze faith, an ethnoreligious [2] esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as monotheists (Muwaḥḥidūn). [3] Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion , and Druze do not identify as Muslims .
This is the result of high immigration rate of Muslims into Jordan, high emigration rates of Christians, and high birth rates for Muslims. Jordan's Arab Christians are well integrated in the Jordanian society and enjoy a high level of freedom. [3] All Christian religious ceremonies are allowed to be publicly celebrated in Jordan. [4]
The Amman Message (Arabic: رسالة عمان, romanized: Risālat ʿAmmān) is a statement calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world that was issued on 9 November 2004 (27 Ramadan 1425 AH) by King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, and his advisor Sheikh Izz-Eddine Al-Tamimi. The message aims to "clarify to the modern world the ...