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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.
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 ...
During this time, Islam was the country's second-largest religion; 90% of Muslims in the Soviet Union were adherents of Sunni Islam, with only around 10% adhering to Shia Islam. Excluding the Azerbaijan SSR, which had a Shia-majority population, all of the Muslim-majority Union Republics had Sunni-majority populations. [1]
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism are Russia's traditional religions, deemed part of Russia's "historical heritage" in a law passed in 1997. [204] Estimates of believers widely fluctuate among sources, and some reports put the number of non-believers in Russia as high as 48-67% of the population. [ 205 ]
Sunni Islam is the predominant religion in Chechnya, practiced by 95% of those polled in Grozny in 2010. [70] [71] Most of the population is Sunni and follows either the Shafi'i or the Hanafi schools of Islamic jurisprudence. [72] The Shafi'i school of jurisprudence has a long tradition among the Chechens, and thus it remains the most practiced.
Islam [a] is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran, believing in Allah (lit. ' The God '), [9] and the teachings of Muhammad, [10] the religion's founder. . Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number 1.9 billion worldwide and are the world's second-largest religious population after Chr
The Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque (Chechen: Кадыров Ахьмадан цӀарах дина маьждиг, romanized: Kadirov Ahmadan ċarax dina mäƶdig; Russian: Мечеть Ахмата Кадырова, romanized: Mechet Akhmata Kadyrova) is located in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.
The Russian Islamic University is Russia's first official Islamic university. [1] It was founded in 1998 in Kazan, Tatarstan. [1] The university consists of three departments (theology, Islamic science and Hafiz preparation) and four sub-departments (humanitarian, Islamic law, Islamic theology and philology).