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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 Islamin a 2011 census.[8] Indiaalso has the third-largestnumber of Muslimsin the world.
Map of Indian subcontinent in 1525. Sultanates of Gujarat, Malwa, Bengal, Kashmir and Delhi as well as Deccan sultanates can be seen in the south. Malwa Sultanate. The Malwa Sultanate was another Muslim kingdom in the Malwa region, covering the present day Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and south-eastern Rajasthan from 1392 to 1562.
The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Earlier Muslim conquests in the subcontinent include the invasions which started in the northwestern subcontinent (modern-day Pakistan ), especially the Umayyad campaigns during the 8th century. Mahmud of Ghazni, Sultan of the Ghaznavid ...
India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million adherents. The Middle East-North Africa region hosts 23% of the world's Muslims, and Islam is the dominant religion in every country in the region other than Israel.
In the last census of British India in 1941, the total population of Kashmir and Jammu (which as a result of the Second World War, was estimated from the 1931 census) was 3,945,000. Of these, the total Muslim population was 2,997,000 (75.97%), the Hindu population was 808,000 (20.48%), and the Sikh 55,000 (1.39%).
The Isma'ili ( / ˌɪsmeɪˈɪli /) [10] get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor ( imām) to Ja'far al-Sadiq, wherein they differ from the Twelver Shia, who accept Musa al-Kadhim, the younger brother of Isma'il, as the true Imām.
In 2020, the total number of Muslims in Asia was about 1.3 billion, it is the largest religion in Asia. Asia constitutes in absolute terms the world's largest Muslim population. [1]and about 62% of the world's Muslims live in Asia, with Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and Bangladeshhaving the largest Muslimpopulations in the world.
The five parts of the emblem represent the Five Pillars of Islam, the shape of the emblem is a stylized form of the Arabic word "Allah" (ٱللَّٰهُ); text along the red and green bands reads "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Great") [8] Iraq. 2008–present. Takbir [9] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. 2004–present. Shahada [10]