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Like the vast majority (90%) of Muslims in the world, most Muslims in Africa are also Sunni Muslims; [2] the complexity of Islam in Africa is revealed in the various schools of thought, traditions, and voices in many African countries. Many African ethnicities, mostly in the northern half of the continent, consider Islam as their traditional ...
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 ( MENA ) region hosts 23% of the world's Muslims, and Islam is the dominant religion in every country in the region [ 26 ] other than Israel .
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation founded in 1969 has 57 members, 56 of which are also member states of the United Nations, with 48 countries having a Muslim majority. Some member countries, especially in West Africa and South America, such as Ivory Coast, Guyana, Gabon, Mozambique, Nigeria, Suriname, Togo and Uganda – though with large ...
Islam is the other major religion in Africa alongside Christianity, [30] with over 40% of the population being Muslim, accounting for about one fourth of the world's Muslim population. The faith's historic roots on the continent stem from the time of Muhammad , whose early disciples migrated to Abyssinia (hijira) in fear of persecution from the ...
Category: Islam in Africa by country. 9 languages. ... Islam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 C, 1 P) D. Islam in Djibouti (3 C, 3 P) E. Islam in Egypt (13 ...
Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries Friday to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden, a day after protesters ...
From 2010 to 2050, the Muslim population in the MENA countries is expected to grow 74%, from 317 million to 552 million. [19] Muslims will remain the majority group in the region, while Christians and Jews will remain as the second and third largest groups respectively. Buddhists and Hindus are expected to double their size by 2050.
Five Muslim-majority countries are subject to new rules on airplane cargo by U.S. transport officials worried about terrorism, according to a report.