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The term Gujarati Muslim is usually used to signify an Indian Muslim from the state of Gujarat on the western coast of India. Most Gujarati Muslims have the Gujarati language as their mother tongue, but some communities have Urdu as their mother tongue. [4] The majority of Gujarati Muslims are Sunni, with a minority of Shia groups.
The Memon are a Muslim community in Gujarat India, and Sindh, Pakistan, the majority of whom follow the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam. [4] They are divided into different groups based on their origins: Kathiawari Memons, Kutchi Memons and Bantva Memons from the Kathiawar, Kutch and Bantva regions of Gujarat respectively, and Sindhi Memons from Sindh.
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The Gujarati cinema dates back to 9 April 1932, when the first Gujarati film Narsinh Mehta was released. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Leeludi Dharti (1968) was the first colour film of Gujarati cinema. [ 6 ] After flourishing through the 1960s to 1980s, the industry saw a decline.
Gujarati Pathans are a group of Pashtuns, who are settled in the region of Gujarat in western India. They now form a distinct community of Gujarati and Urdu/Hindi speaking Muslims . They mainly speak Urdu with many Pashto loanwords, but most of them have been Indianized so some may have Gujarati as their first language as well, few elders in ...
The leader of part of this conversion movement to Sunni Islam was said to be Jafar Patani, himself a Bohra convert to Sunni Islam. In 1538, Syed Jafar Ahmad Shirazi , a missionary from Sindh, convinced Patani Bohras to cease social relations with Ismaili Bohras making the Patani Sunni Bohras a distinct sect. [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
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