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Islam in Singapore

Singaporean Muslims
Total population
ca 820.000[1]
15.6% of the resident population
Religions
Majority Sunni Islam with a small Shia and Ahmadiyya minorities
Masjid Hajjah Fatimah

Islam constitutes the third largest religion in Singapore, with Muslims accounting for approximately 15.6% of the population, as indicated by the 2020 census.[1] Predominantly, Singaporean Muslims are Sunni Muslims adhering to either the Shafi‘i or Hanafi schools of thought.[2] The majority of the Muslim population, about 80%, are ethnic Malays, while 13% are of Indian descent.[3] The remaining fraction comprises local Chinese, Eurasian, and Arab communities, in addition to foreign migrants.[4] Buddhism and Christianity are the two larger religious affiliations in the country.

  1. ^ a b "Singapore Census of Population 2020, Statistical Release 1". Department of Statistics Singapore. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ James L. Peacock (January 1978). Muslim Puritans: Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam. p. 147. ISBN 9780520034037. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
  3. ^ Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Some Aspects of Sufism as Understood and Practised among the Malays (Singapore: Malaysian Sociological Research Institute, 1963).
  4. ^ International Religious Freedom Report 2006 - Singapore

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