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Although there are no official statistics of Muslims in Sweden, estimates count 300,000—350,000 people of Muslim background in 2000 [15] (i.e. anyone who fits the broad definition of someone who "belongs to a Muslim people by birth, has Muslim origin, has a name that belongs in the Muslim tradition, etc." [16]), roughly estimated close to ...
Babylonian and Persian periods (586–332 BCE). [4]The Babylonian period began with the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II in 587 or 586 BCE. The Persian period spans the years 539–332 BCE, from the time Cyrus II of Persia ("the Great") conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire, to the conquest of the region by Alexander the Great.
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), [1] commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician.
For the controversy surrounding Muslim prayer in Spain, see Muslim campaign at Córdoba Cathedral; For criticism of interfaith dialogue with Muslims, see Pierre Claverie#Relations with Islam; For the controversy over whether Islam is a religion or a political system, see Raymond Leo Burke#Islam and immigration
The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups, though this is not a uniform practice. This theory began in the 18th century with the goal of recognizing the relative levels of civility in different societies, [2] but this practice has since fallen into disrepute in many contemporary cultures.
In China, Muslim population growth has been estimated to be as much as 2.7% from 1964 to 1982, however the Pew Research Center projects a slowing down of Muslim population growth in China. [21] By contrast, China's Christian population growth has been estimated at 4.7% based on total population figures from the year 1949. [ 22 ]
A Pew Center study in 2010 found that 3% of the world's Muslims population live in non-Muslim-majority developed countries. [112] India's Muslim population is the world's largest Muslim-minority population in the world (11% of the world's Muslim population). [112]
Ex-Muslims (Arabic: مرتد, romanized: murtadd) are individuals who were raised as Muslims or converted to Islam and later chose to leave the religion. [1] These individuals may encounter challenges related to the conditions and history of Islam, Islamic culture and jurisprudence, as well as local Muslim culture. [2]