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Islami Bishwakosh. Islami Bishwakosh ( Bengali: ইসলামী বিশ্বকোষ, romanized : Islāmī Bishshokōsh, lit. 'Islamic encyclopedia') is an encyclopedia published by the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. It is of 25 volumes and also a concise version. The project's leading founder was Abdul Haque Faridi, a Bangladeshi ...
The works of Ibn Khordadbeh (c. 870) and Jayhani (c. 910s) were at the basis of a new Perso-Arab tradition in Persia and Central Asia. [10] The exact relationship between the books of Khordadbeh and Jayhani is unknown, because the two books had the same title, have often been mixed up, and Jayhani's book has been lost, so that it can only be approximately reconstructed from the works of other ...
Bangladesh, [ a] officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, [ b] is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and is among the most densely populated countries with a population of 170 million in an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi). Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the north ...
The Bengal Sultanate was a Sunni Muslim monarchy [ 6][ 7][ 8] with Bengali, Turco-Persian, Indo-Afghan and Abyssinian elites. [ 9] The most prominent dynasties were the Ilyas Shahi, House of Ganesha and Hussain Shahi. The empire was known for its religious pluralism where non-Muslim communities co-existed peacefully.
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Islam is the largest and the state religion of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. [ 1][ 2] According to the 2022 census, Bangladesh had a population of about 150 million Muslims, or 91.04% [ 3] of its total population of 165 million. [ 4] Muslims of Bangladesh are predominant native Bengali Muslims. The majority of Bangladeshis are Sunni, and ...
This had been difficult because Muslim unity had been hindered by significant internal differences. Most Bengali Muslims had been more a member of a religiously diverse Bengali community than a Muslim one, until the end of the 1800s. [108] The Islam they practised had a significant foundation in the culture of the Bengali countryside. [109]
In 1947, the Bengali Muslims had identified themselves with Pakistan's Islamic project, but by the 1970s, the people of East Pakistan had given priority to their Bengali ethnicity over their religious identity, desiring a society in accordance with Western principles such as secularism, democracy and socialism. [47]