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The Department is also known as Awqaf, and it is responsible for awqaf (in Islamic law, a religious endowment). Islamic affairs are also part of the department's responsibilities in all Emirates of the United Arab Emirates except Dubai, which has its own department; the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department. [2] [3]
The second floor is occupied by Sharjah's Department of Islamic Affairs and Awqaf, including a general library and offices, adding the library having approximately 7,000 books on Islamic thought and history, modern books on Islamic Sharia and ahadith, in addition to cultural, literary and scientific works. The ground and first floors are for ...
Islam is the official religion of the United Arab Emirates. Of the total population, 76.9% are Muslims as of a 2010 estimate by the Pew Research Center . Although no official statistics are available for the breakdown between Sunni and Shia Muslims among noncitizen residents, media estimates suggest less than 20 percent of the noncitizen Muslim ...
The Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) is an agency of the government of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was founded on October 24,1969. [1] The Department was originally known as the Department of Awqaf, and it was responsible for awqaf (in Islamic law, a religious endowment). Subsequently Islamic affairs were added ...
The overall structure of the UAE's national numbering plan is: Landline numbers begin with: [1] 01 Al Karama (Canceled); 02 Abu Dhabi; 03 Al Ain; 04 Dubai; 05 mobile number; 06 Sharjah, Ajman and Umm al-Quwain
Sharjah is the third largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates, and is the only one to have land on both the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The emirate covers 2,590 square kilometres (1,000 sq mi) which is equivalent to 3.3 per cent of the UAE's total area, excluding the islands. It has a population of over 1,800,000 (2022). [3]
Dubai 2011 Al Bidya Mosque: Al Badiyah, Al-Fujairah: 1446 Oldest functional mosque in the UAE. [10] [11] [12] Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Fujairah: Fujairah City 2015 The second largest mosque in the UAE. [13] King Faisal Mosque: Sharjah: 1987 Formerly the largest in Sharjah and the country. [1] [14] [15] Al Noor Mosque: Sharjah 2005 Sharjah Mosque ...
The 2022 population of the UAE stands at 9.4 million, [3] Only approximately 20% of residents are UAE citizens. [4] According to the CIA World Fact Book, 76% of the residents are Muslim, 9% are Christian, other (primarily Hindu and Buddhist, less than 5% of the population consists of Parsi, Baha'i, Druze, Sikh, Ahmadi, Ismaili, Dawoodi Bohra Muslim, and Jewish) 15%. [5]