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Culture of Sudan. Islam is the most common religion in Sudan and Muslims have dominated national government institutions since independence in 1956. According to UNDP Sudan, the Muslim population is 97%, [1] including numerous Arab and non-Arab groups. The remaining 3% ascribe to either Christianity or traditional animist religions.
Religion in Sudan (2020 estimate) [1] Islam (90.7%) Christianity (5.4%) Traditional African religions (2.9%) Others / None (1.0%) A Sufi ritual in Omdurman. St. Matthew's Cathedral in Khartoum. The dominant religion in Sudan is Islam practiced by around 90.7% of the nation's population. Christianity is the largest minority faith in country ...
Demographics of Sudan. The demographics of Sudan include the Sudanese people (Arabic: سودانيون) and their characteristics, Sudan, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. In Sudan's 1993 census, the population was calculated at 30 million.
Sudanese Arabs (Arabic: عرب سودانيون, romanized: ʿarab sūdāniyyūn) are the inhabitants of Sudan who identify as Arabs and speak Arabic as their mother tongue. [4] Some of them are descendants of Arabs who migrated to Sudan from the Arabian Peninsula, [5] although the rest have been described as Arabized indigenous peoples of ...
Islamism in Sudan. The Islamist movement in Sudan started in universities and high schools as early as the 1940s under the influence of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. [1] The Islamic Liberation Movement, a precursor of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, began in 1949. [1] Hassan Al-Turabi then took control of it under the name of the Sudanese ...
The Islamization of the Sudan region (Sahel) [1] encompasses a prolonged period of religious conversion, through military conquest and trade relations, spanning the 8th to 16th centuries. Following the 7th century Muslim conquest of Egypt and the 8th-century Muslim conquest of North Africa, Arab Muslims began leading trade expeditions into Sub ...
The 2019 transitional constitution of Sudan guarantees freedom of religion and omits reference to sharia as a source of law, unlike the 2005 constitution of Sudan's deposed president Omar al-Bashir whose government had criminalized apostasy and blasphemy against Islam. Bashir's government had also targeted Shia Muslims and those engaging in ...
The Masalit people are generally located in the West Darfur region. The Masalit primarily live in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, though a few thousand also live in Al Qadarif State in eastern Sudan, and in South Darfur. [1] According to Ethnologue, there were 462,000 total Masalit speakers as of 2011, of whom 350,000 resided in Sudan.