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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.
In the 2001 census, 248,807 Australian residents reported Arab ancestry. Additionally, 209,372 Australians indicated that they spoke Arabic at home. 162,283 Australian residents were born in one of the 22 Arab League nations, a proportion which represented 0.8% of Australia's population. 120,000 Australians also had a parent who was born in an Arab state.
Tawhidi is a Shia Muslim, and was born in Qom, Iran, to Iraqi parents, who emigrated to Australia with their family to escape persecution. [3]Mohammad Tawhidi is a Shia scholar of Iraqi descent and a third generation Imam.
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 ...
Both Muslim and indigenous leaders want to share this history more widely. In Australia, Muslims make up less than 3% of the country's population. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CO-FOUNDER OF ABU HANIFA ...
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