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  2. Islam in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Islam is the largest and the state religion of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. [1][2] According to the 2022 census, Bangladesh had a population of about 150 million Muslims, or 91.04% [3] of its total population of 165 million. [4] Muslims of Bangladesh are predominant native Bengali Muslims. The majority of Bangladeshis are Sunni, and ...

  3. History of Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The history of Bangladesh dates back over four millennia to the Chalcolithic period. The region's early history was characterized by a succession of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms and empires that fought for control over the Bengal region. Islam arrived in the 8th century and gradually became dominant from the early 13th century with the conquests ...

  4. Religion in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    On April 27, 2024, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh issued a verdict affirming that the provision declaring Islam as the state religion is not in contradiction with the country's constitution. Article 2A of the constitution establishes Islam as the state religion while ensuring equal rights for other religious communities.

  5. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - Wikipedia

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    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman[c] (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the Bangabandhu[d] was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist, who was the founding leader of Bangladesh. As the leader of Bangladesh, he had held continuous positions either as Bangladesh's president or as its prime minister from ...

  6. Freedom of religion in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of Bangladesh includes secularism as one of the four fundamental principles, [1] despite having Islam as the state religion by 2A. [2] Islam is referred to twice in the introduction and Part I of the constitution and the document begins with the Islamic phrase Basmala (بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ) which in English is translated as ...

  7. Banglapedia - Wikipedia

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    Sirajul Islam is the chairman of the Board of Editors of Banglapedia, and the editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. A professor of history at the University of Dhaka, the oldest and largest university in Bangladesh, Islam gave up his day job five years before the formal date for retirement, to make time for Banglapedia. [9]

  8. Islami Bishwakosh - Wikipedia

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    Sirat Bishwakosh. Islami Bishwakosh (Bengali: ইসলামী বিশ্বকোষ, romanized: Islāmī Bishshokōsh, lit. 'Islamic encyclopedia') is an encyclopedia published by the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. It is of 25 volumes and also a concise version. The project's leading founder was Abdul Haque Faridi, a Bangladeshi educator ...

  9. Barelvi movement - Wikipedia

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    The Barelvi movement is also known as the Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah. [2][3][4][5] According to Oxford Reference, Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jamaah or Barelvi is movement developed on the basis of writings of Mawlana Ahmed Raza Khan Barelwi. [6] The Database of Religious History refers the movement as the Ahl-e-Sunnat wa Jamaat (often, Ahl-e-Sunnat ...