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World Muslim population by percentage (Pew Research Center, 2014) The distribution of the predominant Islamic madhhab (school of law) followed in majority-Muslim countries and regions See also Islam by country , Christianity by country , Judaism by country , Protestantism by country , Commons:Category:Religion maps of the world
There are alternate versions of this map available on wikimedia commons. Some use older data and provide a historical map. Some are current, but the above map differs in setting the lower limit of the lightest band to 1%. Gray color for a nation means near zero % of the population in that nation is Muslim.
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India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million adherents. [25] The Middle East-North Africa region hosts 23% of the world's Muslims, and Islam is the dominant religion in every country in the region [26] other than Israel. [12]
Map of Fars from the Kitab al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik (Book of postal routes and kingdoms) of al-Istakhri. Islamic regional cartography is usually categorized into three groups: that produced by the "Balkhī school", the type devised by Muhammad al-Idrisi, and the type that are uniquely found in the Book of curiosities. [3]
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512 ...
History of early Islamic Tunisia; History of the Arabs; History of the Mediterranean region; History of the Middle East; Incense trade route; Indo-Mediterranean; Indo-Roman trade relations; Islam in Central Asia; Islam in Iran; Islam in Turkey; Islamic Golden Age; Jihad; List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official language ...
[55] [56] [5] The only rule of thumb for inclusion which has some support, is that countries need to have a Muslim population of more than 50%. [55] [5] In 2010, 73% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the majority, while 27% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the minority.