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Punjabi Muslims are Punjabis who are adherents of Islam. [4] [5] With a population of more than 112 million, they are the third-largest predominantly Islam-adhering Muslim ethnicity in the world, [6] after Arabs [7] and Bengalis. [8] The majority of Punjabi Muslims are adherents of Sunni Islam, while a minority adhere to Shia Islam.
Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally or genealogically Punjabis.Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.
Muslim Gujjars were actively involved in the 1857 uprising against the Company rule, particularly in the Punjab region, and were said to have given "a great deal of trouble" during the Mutiny. [ 10 ] Later, during the British Raj era, they were classified as a martial race and enlisted in class company regiments.
Forming the majority of the Punjabi ethnicity in the greater Punjab region, [90] Punjabi Muslims write the Punjabi language under the Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi. With a population of more than 80 million, [ 90 ] [ 91 ] they are the largest ethnic group in Pakistan and the world's third-largest Islam-adhering ethnicity [ 92 ] after ...
The founder of Solo Beverage Company, one of the largest beverage companies in Trinidad and Tobago, Serjad Makmadeen (a.k.a. Joseph Charles), was born in 1910 in Princes Town to Makmadeen, a Punjabi Muslim who emigrated from Punjab in then British India to Trinidad, and his wife Rosalin Jamaria, a Dougla (mixed Indian and African heritage) who ...
Following is a list of Punjabi Muslim tribes, castes and surnames, mainly those with origins in Punjab, Pakistan. Note that some of these may have a significant non-Muslim population. Note that some of these may have a significant non-Muslim population.
Jat Muslim or Musalman Jat (Punjabi: جٹ مسلمان; Sindhi: مسلمان جاٽ), also spelled Jatt or Jutt (Punjabi pronunciation: [d͡ʒəʈːᵊ]), are an elastic and diverse [1] ethno-social subgroup of the Jat people, who are composed of followers of Islam and are native to the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. [2]
The Punjabi Malaysian community today numbers over 100,000 – the majority of whom are Sikhs, although there are also sizeable Muslim, Hindu and Christian minorities. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] They form the largest Punjabi diaspora group in Southeast Asia , while within Malaysia, Punjabis are the fourth largest ethnicity of Indian or South Asian ...