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Regional Islamic rule would remain under Princely states, such as Hyderabad State, Junagadh State, and other minor princely states until the mid of the 20th century. Today, Bangladesh , Maldives and Pakistan are the Muslim majority nations in the Indian subcontinent while India has the largest Muslim minority population in the world numbering ...
Built by Asaf-ud-Daula, 4th Nawab of Awadh. Atala Masjid. Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. 1408 CE. Sunni. In 1377 CE, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, the 19th Sultan of Delhi and 3rd ruler of Tughlaq dynasty laid the foundation. In 1408 CE, Ibrahim Shah, the 3rd ruler of Jaunpur Sultanate completed the construction. Central Mahallu Juma Masjid.
Islam is India's second-largest religion, [7] with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census. [8] India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. [9] [10] The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of the Muslim ...
Islam. Islam is the second-largest religion in South Asia, with more than 650 million Muslims living there, forming about one-third of the region's population. Islam first spread along the coastal regions of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, almost as soon as it started in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Arab traders brought it to South Asia.
The Islamic State (IS) had its core in Iraq and Syria from 2013 to 2017 and 2019 respectively, where the proto-state controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory, mainly in the Mesopotamian region. [ 14] Today the group controls scattered pockets of land in the area, as well as territory or insurgent cells [ 14][ 16] in ...
The Taj-ul-Masajid ( Arabic: تَاجُ ٱلْمَسَاجِد, romanized : Tāj-ul-Masājid, lit. 'Crown of Mosques') or Tāj-ul-Masjid ( تَاجُ ٱلْمَسْجِد ), is a mosque situated in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. [ 2] It is the largest mosque in India and one of the largest mosques in the world. [ 1][ 3]
Mappila Muslim, generally in recent times, is a member of the Muslim community of same name found predominantly in Kerala and Lakshadweep Islands in Southern India, and historically used to identify Muslims from Northern Kerala [ a]. [ 2][ 9] Muslims of Kerala make up 26.56% of the population of the state (2011), and as a religious group they ...
Pages in category "Islam in India by state or union territory" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .