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Around 62% of the world's Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region (from Turkey to Indonesia), with over one billion adherents. [19] Asia hosts the world's top 4 largest domestic populations, starting with Indonesia at 12.7% of the world, followed by Pakistan—11.1%, then India—10.9%, and Bangladesh—9.2%. [11] [20] Africa has the 5th and ...
The religio-political ideology of Islamism (also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism) [1] which has "arguably altered the Middle East more than any trend since the modern states gained independence", redefining "politics and even borders" (according to at least one observer (author Robin Wright), [2] is active in many countries around the world.
Islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation. However, in the modern contexts of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries as well as secularised Muslim states like Turkey, and Bangladesh, the religious leadership may take ...
The majority of the nation's population is Sunni Muslim, but among them are Alawites, Christians, Shiite Muslims, Druze, and other ethnicities and religious movements. UK: Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Leader Founded Ideology Lower House Algeria: Movement of Society for Peace حركة مجتمع السلم: Hamas: Abderrazak Makri: 6 December 1990 Sunni Islamism Islamic democracy Social conservatism Economic liberalism [11] People's National Assembly:
Sunni Islam [a] (/ ˈ s uː n i /; Arabic: أهل السنة, romanized: Ahl as-Sunnah, lit. 'The People of the Sunnah') is the largest denomination of Islam, followed by 87–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Sunni Islam in the United Kingdom (1 C, 8 P) Sunni Islam in the United States (2 C) This page was last edited on 1 August 2020, at 07:42 (UTC). Text is available ...
Following the embargo by Arab oil exporters during the Israeli-Arab October 1973 War and the vast increase in petroleum export revenue that followed, [1] [2] [3] the international propagation of Salafism and Wahhabism within Sunni Islam [4] favored by the conservative oil-exporting Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [1] [5] [6] and other Gulf monarchies achieved a "preeminent position of strength in the ...