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Arab Muslims
ﺍﻟْمُسْلِمون ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ | |
|---|---|
 Percentages of Muslims in Arab states | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Arab League | |
| approx. 350+ million[1] | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam (majority) Shia Islam (minority) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arab Christians and other Arabs |
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| Arabic culture |
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Arab Muslims (Arabic: ﺍﻟْمُسْلِمون ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ, romanized: al-Muslimūn al-ʿArab) are the Arabs who adhere to Islam. They are the largest subdivision of the Arab people and the largest ethnic group among Muslims globally,[2] followed by Bengalis[3][4][5] and Punjabis.[6] Likewise, they comprise the majority of the population of the Arab world.[7][8] Currently, around 93% of Arabs are Muslims, while the rest are mainly Arab Christians, as well as Druze and Baháʼís.[9]
Although Arabs account for the largest ethnicity among the world's adherents of Islam, they are a minority in the Muslim world in terms of sheer numbers. Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was an ethnic Arab belonging to the Banu Hashim of the Quraysh, and most of the early Muslims were also Arabs.
- ^ Gross, Max L. (2007). A Muslim Archipelago: Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia. United States Department of Defense. ISBN 978-1-932946-19-2.
Dr. Gross' emphasis on Southeast Asia takes on added meaning when considering that two of the world's three largest Muslim populations reside there–196 million in Indonesia, 138 million in Pakistan, and 114 million in Bangladesh. This compares with the 350-plus million residing in Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
- ^ Margaret Kleffner Nydell Understanding Arabs: A Guide For Modern Times, Intercultural Press, 2005, ISBN 1931930252, page xxiii, 14
- ^ roughly 152 million Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh and 36.4 million Bengali Muslims in the Republic of India (CIA Factbook 2014 estimates, numbers subject to rapid population growth); about 10 million Bangladeshis in the Middle East, 1 million Bengalis in Pakistan, 5 million British Bangladeshi.
- ^ Richard Eaton (8 September 2009). "Forest Clearing and the Growth of Islam in Bengal". In Barbara D. Metcalf (ed.). Islam in South Asia in Practice. Princeton University Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-4008-3138-8.
- ^ Meghna Guhathakurta; Willem van Schendel (30 April 2013). The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822353188. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ Gandhi, Rajmohan (2013). Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. New Delhi, India, Urbana, Illinois: Aleph Book Company. p. 1. ISBN 978-93-83064-41-0..
- ^ Peter Haggett (2001). Encyclopedia of World Geography. Vol. 1. Marshall Cavendish. p. 2122. ISBN 0-7614-7289-4.
- ^ "Middle East-North Africa". Pew-Templeton: Global Religious Futures Project.
- ^ "Arabs". Encyclopedia.com. 21 April 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- Phares, Walid (2001). "Arab Christians: An Introduction". Arabic Bible Outreach Ministry.
- "Majority and Minorities in the Arab World: The Lack of a Unifying Narrative". Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs.*"Religious Diversity Around The World – Pew Research Center". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 4 April 2014.
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