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Bengali Muslims constitute the world's second-largest Muslim ethnicity (after the Arab world) and the largest Muslim community in South Asia. [112] An estimated 152 million Bengali Muslims live in Bangladesh as of 2021, where Islam is the state religion and commands the demographic majority. [ 113 ]
The Bengali state followed the Persian model of statecraft. Muslims from other parts of the world were imported for military, bureaucratic and household services. These immigrants included Turks from northern India who were originally recruited in Central Asia; as well as Abyssinians imported via East Africa into the Bengali port of Chittagong.
A Bengali Muslim wedding (Bengali: বাঙালি মুসলিম বিয়ে) is a Bengali wedding in accordance with the Muslim faith. This is the dominant tradition of weddings seen among the Bengali Muslims of Bangladesh and the West Bengal state of India.
The overwhelming majority of Bangladeshi Muslims are Bengali Muslims at 98 percent, but a small segment about 2 percent of them are Bihari Muslims and Rohingyas. Most Muslims in Bangladesh are Sunnis, but there is a small Shia community. Most of those who are Shia reside in urban areas.
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They are part of a larger social class in Bengal, known as the Khandan or Sharif, the upper class of Bengali Muslim society. [5] Amongst, this class are families with surnames with a similar origin, being taken from the founder of the family's title, such as Khandaker , Syed , Kazi , and Mirza .
The vast majority of Bangladeshi citizens are Bengali Muslims, adhering to Sunni Islam. [231] The country is the third-most populous Muslim-majority state in the world and has the fourth-largest overall Muslim population. [232] Bengali Hindus form the country's second-largest religious minority and the third-largest Hindu community in the
Bengali Muslims, Assamese Muslims, Mahimal The Miya people , alternatively identified as Na-Asamiya by themselves (ন অসমীয়া, lit. neo-Assamese), denote the progeny of Bengali Muslim migrants originating from the contemporary Mymensingh , Rangpur , and Rajshahi Divisions. [ 3 ]