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India's Muslim population is the world's largest Muslim-minority population in the world (11% of the world's Muslim population). [184] Jones (2005) defines a "large minority" as being between 30% and 50%, which described nine countries in 2000, namely Eritrea , Ethiopia , Guinea-Bissau , Ivory Coast , Nigeria , North Macedonia , and Tanzania ...
In 2010, 74.1% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the majority, while 25.9% of the world's Muslim population lived in countries where Muslims are in the minority. [112] A Pew Center study in 2010 found that 3% of the world's Muslims population live in non-Muslim-majority developed countries. [112]
From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times have been taught, which traces itself to the Prophet David in Psalm 119:164. [6] In Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day, "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with ...
“Nobel laureates of the Islamic world” - S Iftikhar Murshed, The News International, April 3, 2011 “Professor Abdus Salam” “No Nobels for the Muslim World” by Aziz Akhmad, The Express Tribune, October 6, 2011 “Abdus Salam, 'First Muslim Nobel Laureate'”, ‘The Culture Trip’. (Abdus Salam was a theoretical physicist who became ...
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL (/ s ʌ l ˈ m ɑː n ˈ r ʊ ʃ d i /; [2] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. [3] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent.
Hejaz is the region in the Arabian Peninsula where Mecca and Medina are located. It is where the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born and raised. [10]The two holy cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina, are traditionally known as the Ḥaramayn, which is the dual form of ḥaram, thus meaning "The Two Sanctuaries". [11]
Ibn Sirin (654–728), author of work on dreams and dream interpretation [6]; Al-Kindi (801–873) (Alkindus), pioneer of psychotherapy and music therapy [7]; Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (9th century), pioneer of psychiatry, clinical psychiatry and clinical psychology [8]
The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.It centered on the novel's references to the Satanic Verses (apocryphal verses of the Quran), and came to include a larger debate about censorship and religious violence.