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The following is a breakdown of the country of birth of Muslims in Australia from 2001: [117] There were 281,578 Muslims recorded in this survey; in the 2006 census the population had grown to 340,392. [118] 48% of Australian-born Muslims claimed Lebanese or Turkish ancestry. [117]
Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland, 1860s-1930s (Pbk ed.). Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781862547780. (Online version of 2010 ed. at Google Books includes short biographies of a large number of cameleers.) Stevens, Christine (2003) [1989]. Tin Mosques and Ghan Towns: A History of Afghan Camel Drivers in Australia. ISBN 0-9581760-0-0.
The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. [1] [2] Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world.
Lebanese Australians (Arabic: اللبنانيون الأستراليون) refers to citizens or permanent residents of Australia of Lebanese ancestry. The population is diverse, having a large Christian religious base, being mostly Maronite Catholics, while also having a large Muslim group of Sunni and Shia branches.
This timeline of Islamic history relates the Gregorian and Islamic calendars in the history of Islam. This timeline starts with the lifetime of Muhammad, which is believed by non-Muslims to be when Islam started, [1] though not by Muslims. [2] [3] [4]
The Adelaide Mosque is the oldest surviving mosque in Australia and the first to be built in an Australian city. Erected in 1888–89, it was designed to meet the spiritual needs of Muslim cameleers and traders coming in from work in South Australia’s northern regions. Park Holme: Masjid Omar Bin Al Khattab Also known as the Marion Masjid
A devout Muslim, Allum, aided by his wife and friends, sent letters to newspapers and published pamphlets on Islam, [3] the Qur’an, and healing, although illiterate himself. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] In 1932 Allum published the booklet The History of Islamism in Australia from 1863-1932 , edited by fellow ex-camel driver Hassan Musa Khan , in which he is ...