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Islam is a major religious minority in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe. [2] According to the US Department of State in 2017, [3] Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population.
Muslims are expected to grow to 8% (52.8 million) of the total population of Europe, and this growth is expected to be the largest in the western European countries. [317] Russia will have the largest total population of Muslims in Europe, however. [317] Most of these changes are expected to come from immigration. [317]
The growth of Islam from 2010 to 2020 has been estimated at 1.70% [3] due to high birthrates in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The report also shows that the fall in the birth rate of Muslims slowed down the growth rate from 1990 to 2010. It is due to the fall of the fertility rate in many Muslim majority countries.
According to the Russian Analytical Centre for Sociology of Interethnic and Regional Relations (ISPI), the proportion of believers of the two largest religions in Russia remained stable between 1993 and 2000; Orthodox Christianity fluctuated between 46% in 1993, over 50% in the mid-1990s, and 49% in 2000, while Islam fluctuated between 7% in ...
Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, earlier called into question U.S. assertions that Islamic State, which once sought control over swathes of Iraq and Syria, was behind the ...
Islamic Authority and the Russian Language: Studies on Texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia. Amsterdam: Pegasus. Shestopalets, Denys (2021). "Between faith and ethnicity: motifs of conversion and attitudes to ethnic Muslims in the discourses of Russian converts to Islam". Contemporary Islam 15.3. Springer: 357–380.
Russia cannot be a target for Islamic fundamentalists, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, nearly two weeks after at least 144 people were killed near Moscow in a mass shooting that was ...
Islam and the Muslims in the Land of the Soviets. Moscow: Progress. Crews, Robert D. (2006). For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-02164-9. Jones, P. (May 16, 2017). Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia. University of Pittsburgh Press.