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Bengali Muslims constitute the world's second-largest Muslim ethnicity (after the Arab world) and the largest Muslim community in South Asia. [110] An estimated 152 million Bengali Muslims live in Bangladesh as of 2021, where Islam is the state religion and commands the demographic majority. [ 111 ]
A Bengali woman in Dhaka clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century. Bengal became the basis of the Anglo-Mughal War . [ 117 ] [ 118 ] After the weakening of the Mughal Empire with the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, Bengal was ruled independently by three dynasties of Nawabs until 1757, when the region was annexed by the East India Company ...
Muslim women, wearing hijab which is a version of modest Islamic clothing, can be seen shopping at a department store in Comilla, Bangladesh. Entrance of the Shah Jalal Mazar in Sylhet An urban congregation for Eid-ul-Adha prayers in Dhaka .
Today, Bengalis enjoy strong cultural homogeneity with a common standardized language and a variety of dialects. Over 91.04% of the population are Bengali Muslims (150.36 million) as of 2022. This makes Bangladesh the world's third largest Muslim majority country after Indonesia and Pakistan.
Homes to prominent communities of other Muslim Americans, in search of better work opportunities and an affordable cost of living, [13] but most have since returned from Detroit to New York and to New Jersey, in hope of starting a new community and a peaceful life.
Biggest festival of Bengalis, Pohela Boishakh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.
Baroness "Pola" Manzila Uddin, Labour Party life peer, community activist, and the first Muslim and second Asian woman to sit in the House of Lords [13] Apsana Begum MP , Labour Party Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse , first Hijabi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament
Bengal was also central in the rising political awareness of the Muslim population—the All-India Muslim League was established in Dhaka in 1906. The Muslim homeland movement pushed for a sovereign state in eastern India with the Lahore Resolution in 1943. Hindu nationalism was also strong in Bengal, which was home to groups like the Hindu ...