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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,

Muslims, or 91.04%[3] of its total population of 165 million.[4]
The majority of
Hanafi school of fiqh. Despite being a secular state, Bangladesh is a de facto Islamic country.[5]

In the late 7th century,

Suri Empire
.

In the 17th century, under Mughal Emperor

Fatawa-e-Alamgiri delivered a significant direct contribution to the economy of Bengal, and the proto-industrialization was signaled.[8][verification needed
]

History

A mosque in Bangladesh

Early explorers

The Buddhist

Pala Empire. The earliest mosque in South Asia is possibly in Lalmonirhat, built during or just after the Prophet Muhammad's lifetime.[11]

In addition to trade, Islam was also being introduced to the people of Bengal through the migration of missionaries prior to conquest. Arab navigation eastwards was the result of the Muslim reign in North India.[12][self-published source?] The earliest known Sufi missionaries were Syed Shah Surkhul Antia and his students, most notably Shah Sultan Rumi, who arrived in 1053 CE. Rumi settled in present-day Netrokona, Mymensingh where he influenced the local ruler and population to embrace Islam.

The first Muslim conquest of Bengal was undertaken by the forces of General

Mymensingh came under Muslim dominion. A community of 13 Muslim families headed by Burhanuddin resided in the northeastern city of Srihatta (Sylhet), claiming their descendants to have arrived from Chittagong.[13] Srihatta (Sylhet) was ruled by an oppressive king called Gour Govinda. After being informed of Raja Gour Govinda's oppressive regime in Sylhet, Firuz Shah sent numerous forces led by his nephew Sikandar Khan Ghazi and subsequently his military commander-in-chief Syed Nasiruddin to conquer Sylhet. By 1303, over three hundred Sufi preachers led by Shah Jalal aided the conquest and confirmed a victory. Following the conquest, Jalal disseminated his followers across different parts of Bengal to spread Islam. Jalal is now a household name among Muslims in Bangladesh.[14]

As independent Sultanate of Bengal

Main articles: History of Bengal, History of Bangladesh, History of West Bengal, and Bengal Sultanate

During the

Sultanate period, a syncretic belief system arose due to mass conversions.[15] As a result, the Islamic concept of tawhid (the oneness of God) was diluted into the veneration of saints or pirs. Deities such as Shitala (goddess of smallpox), Olabibi (goddess of cholera) and Manasa (goddess of snakes) became venerated as pirs.[16]

Under Mughal Empire

Main articles: Mughal Empire and Bengal Subah

In pre-Mughal times, there is less evidence for widespread adoption of Islam in what is now Bangladesh. What mention of Muslims there was usually in reference to an urban elite. Ibn Battuta met with Shah Jalal in Sylhet and noted the inhabitants of the plains were still Hindu.[citation needed] In 1591, Venetian traveller Cesare Federici mentioned Sondwip near Chittagong as having an entirely Muslim population. The seventeenth century European travellers generally understood Islam as being implanted after the Mughal conquest.[17]

During the Mughal Empire, much of the region of what is now East Bengal was still heavily forested, but highly fertile. The Mughals incentivised the bringing of this land under cultivation, and so peasants were incentivised to bring the land under cultivation. These peasants were primarily led by Muslim leaders and so Islam became the main religion in the delta. Most of the Zamindars in the modern Barisal division, for instance, were upper caste Hindus who subcontracted actual jungle clearance work to a Muslim pir. In other instances, pirs themselves would organise the locals to clear the jungle and then contact the Mughals to gain legitimacy. In other instances, such as the densely-forested interior of Chittagong, Muslims came from indigenous tribals who never followed Hindu rituals.[17]

In British India

Main articles:
British India and Bengal Presidency

The

permanent settlement dismantled centuries of joint Muslim-Hindu political, military and feudal cooperation.[citation needed
]

The

Christian missionaries increased during this period. To counter this trend, Reazuddin Ahmad Mashadi, Muhammad Reazuddin Ahmad[21] of the Sudhakar newspaper and Munshi Mohammad Meherullah played prominent roles.[22]

The colonial capital

Indian Independence Movement, including the Pakistan Movement
.

Bangladesh War of Independence

Main article: Bangladesh Liberation War
See also: History of East Pakistan
Mufti Mahmud
.

Islamic sentiments powered the definition of nationhood in the 1940s when Bengali people united with Muslims in other parts of the subcontinent to form Pakistan. Defining themselves first as Muslims they envisaged a society based on Islamic principles. However, by the beginning of the 1970s the Bengalis were more swayed by regional feelings, in which they defined themselves foremost as Bengali Muslims before being Muslims. The society they then envisioned was based on principles such as socialism, nationalism and democracy. While Islam was still a part of faith and culture, it was no longer the only factor that formed national identity.[24]

Bangladesh was established as a constitutionally secular state[25] and the Bangladeshi constitution enshrined secular, socialist and democratic principles.[26]

Denominations

Further information: Islamic schools and branches
Muslims in Bangladesh[27]
religion percent
Sunni Muslim
 
 99%
Other
Muslim
 
 1%
Kakrail Mosque, Dhaka. The Tablighi Jamaat movement in Bangladesh is mostly based here.

The majority in Bangladesh are

Sunni, although other demographics within Bangladesh include Shiites and non-denominational Muslims
.

Overview

Bangladesh has always been sunni since its conversion to Islam. Among the early sects shia have always had some presence in Bangladesh but there is no mention of significant mutazilite or kharijite presence in the records. The shias, who were viewed as followers of Abdullah Ibn Saba, were never accepted into the mainstream of Islam. Sunni Islam or Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat considers deviant sects to be "munafiq murtad" or hypocrite apostates and are considered more distant from Islam than those who openly deny Islam. Among the later sects wahhabis and deobandis are notable. Wahhabis, who were considered a deviant sect like the kharijites and mushabbiha because of extremism, denial of taqlid and anthropomorphism, have been presented as orthodox muslims by the related deobandi sect and many have accepted it because deobandis do not openly admit that they are not sunnis to new followers and their control of the Islamic Foundation has been backed by Bangladesh's governments and neighboring governments such as India. Even then Bangladesh remains a largely sunni majority country different from how they are often presented as either wahhabi deobandis or syncretic atheists/marxists who worship graves and many Bangladeshis consider it the reason behind why Bangladeshis are often persecuted.

Sunni

Shah Jalal Mazar at Sylhet

As with the rest of the Indian subcontinent,

Ahl-e-Hadith have a significant community in Bangladesh. There are others such as Jamaat-e-Islami, a political party similar to Muslim Brotherhood in promoting Islamism
.

Sufism

A majority of Bangladeshi Muslims perceive Sufis as a source of spiritual wisdom and guidance and their khanqahs and dargahs as nerve centers of Muslim society[30] and according to an estimate approximately 26% of Bangladeshi Muslims openly identify themselves with a Sufi order, almost half of whom adhere to the

Sultanate period, Sufis emerged[15] and formed khanqahs and dargahs that served as the nerve center of local communities.[30] The tradition of Islamic mysticism known as Sufism appeared very early in Sunni Islam and became essentially a popular movement emphasizing worship out of a love of Allah.[32][33] Sufism stresses a direct, unstructured, personal devotion to God in place of the ritualistic, outward observance of the faith and "a Sufi aims to attain spiritual union with God through love".[32][33] An important belief in the Sufi tradition is that the average believer may use spiritual guides in his pursuit of the truth.[33] Throughout the centuries many gifted scholars and numerous poets have been inspired by Sufi ideas and the Baul musical tradition of Bengal has also been influenced by Sufism.[34][35][33]

According to FirstPost, Sufis have suffered from religious sectarianism, with fourteen Sufis murdered by Islamist extremists from December 2014 to June 2016.[36]

Revivalism

Before the 19th century, Bangladeshi Muslims practiced a very syncretic version of Islam. This included Muharram processions that included immersion of

Syed Ahmad Shaheed such as Karamat Ali Jaunpuri, Titumir, Inayat Ali and Wilayat Ali Khan. They forbade customs such as offering of sweets to tombs of dead ancestors, worship of pirs, as well as the playing of music at weddings, viewing them all as corrupting influences of Hinduism.[37][38] Many of these movements also unified and empowered Muslim peasantry with their preaching of equality of all Muslims, to the extent that many of these movements also led the peasants against the Zamindars and the British.[37]

The influence of conservative Sunni Islam 'revivalism' has been noted by some. On 5 May 2013 a demonstration organized by the Deobandi organization known as the Hefazat-e-Islam movement paralyzed the city of Dhaka when half a million people demanded the institution of a conservative religious program, to include a ban on mixing of men and women in public places, the removal of sculptures and demands for the retention of "absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah" in the preamble of the constitution of Bangladesh.[39] In 2017 author K. Anis Ahmed complained that attacks on and killings of liberal bloggers, academics and religious minorities,[40] had been brought about by "a significant shift ... in the past few decades" up to 2017 in attitudes towards religion in Bangladesh.

During my school years in the 1980s, religion was a matter of personal choice. No one batted an eyelid if you chose not to fast during Ramadan. Today, eat in public during the holiday and you may be chided by strangers. Thanks to shows on cable TV, social media and group meetings, Islamists have succeeded to an alarming degree in painting secularism as a threat to Islam.[40]

Ahmed and others also attacked the deletion of non-Muslim writers in the new 2017 primary school textbooks,[40] alleging they were dropped "per the demand" of Hefajat-e Islam and the Awami Olema League who had demanded "the exclusion of some of the poems written by `Hindus and atheists`".[41] These changes, as well as such errors as spelling mistakes and the incorrect arrangement of paragraphs, triggered newspaper headlines and protests on social media.[41][42] According to Prof. Akhtaruzzaman, head of the textbook committee, the omissions happened "mainly because the NCTB did the job in such a hurry that the authors and the editors got little time to go through the texts." The Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman has promised the errors will be corrected.[42]

There have also been attacks on Sufi preachers and personalities by puritanical/revivalist groups.[43][44]

Small minorities

Further information: Shia Islam in Bangladesh and Ahmadiyya in Bangladesh

There are also few

Shi'a Muslims, particularly belonging to the Bihari community. The Shi'a observance commemorating the martyrdom of Ali's sons, Hasan and Husayn, are still widely observed by the nation's Sunnis,[33] even though there are small numbers of Shi'as. Among the Shias, the Dawoodi Bohra community is concentrated in Chittagong.[45]

There are no adherents of the

Mahdavia creed.[47]
There are some people who do not identify themselves with any sect and just call themselves Muslims.

Demography

Map of percentage of Bangladeshi Muslims by Upazila (2011 census)
Percentage and population of Muslims in Bangladesh by decades[48][49][50]
Year Percentage (%) Muslim Population Total population Notes
1901 66.1 19,121,160 28,927,626
1911 67.2 21,205,203 31,555,363 Before partition
1921 68.1 22,646,387 33,254,607
1931 69.5 24,744,911 35,604,189
1941 70.3 29,525,452 41,999,221
1951 76.9 32,346,033 42,062,462 During Pakistan period
1961 80.4 40,847,150 50,804,914
1974 85.4 61,042,675 71,478,543 After independence of Bangladesh
1981 86.7 75,533,462 87,120,487
1991 88.3 93,881,726 106,315,583
2001 89.6 110,406,654 123,151,871
2011 90.4 135,394,217 149,772,364
2022 91.04 150,360,404 165,158,616

The population of Bangladesh have gone up from 28.92 million in 1901 to 150.36 million in 2022, as per as statistics the same way the high fertility rate among Muslims have led to over population of the country as according to census, Muslim population have gone up from 19.12 million in 1901 to 150.36 million in 2022. The Muslim percentage have also got increased from 66.1% in 1901 to 91.04% in 2022.[4][51]

Muslim women, wearing hijab which is a version of modest Islamic clothing, can be seen shopping at a department store in Comilla, Bangladesh.
Entrance of the Shah Jalal Mazar in Sylhet
An urban congregation for Eid-ul-Adha prayers in Dhaka.
Historical Muslim Population
YearPop.±%
1901 19,121,160—    
1911 21,205,203+10.9%
1921 22,646,387+6.8%
1931 24,744,911+9.3%
1941 29,525,452+19.3%
1951 32,346,033+9.6%
1961 40,847,150+26.3%
1974 61,042,675+49.4%
1981 75,533,462+23.7%
1991 93,881,726+24.3%
2001 110,406,654+17.6%
2011 135,394,217+22.6%
2022 150,360,404+11.1%
Source: God Willing: The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh by Ali Riaz, p. 63
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)[5][52][4]

The Muslim population in Bangladesh is 150,360,404 covering up 91.04% of Bangladesh population as per 2022 census.[4]

Estimation shows that over 1 million Rohingya Muslim refugees live in Bangladesh who have came here during the period of (2016–17) crisis.[53] On 28 September 2018, at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said there are 1.1-1.3 million Rohingya refugees now in Bangladesh.[54][55]

According to Pew research center, Muslim population of Bangladesh will reach 218.5-237.5 million by the year 2050, and will constitute overwhelming 95% of the country's population, thus making the country 4th largest Muslim populated around that time.[56][57][58]

Muslim Population across divisions of Bangladesh (2011)[48]
Division Muslim Population Total population Percentage (%)
Barisal 7,546,483 8,325,666 90.64
Chittagong 25,460,202 28,423,019 89.58
Dhaka 33,804,739 36,433,505 92.78
Khulna 13,617,984 15,687,759 86.81
Mymensingh 10,462,699 10,990,913 95.19
Rajshahi 17,248,861 18,484,858 93.31
Rangpur 13,581,967 15,787,758 86.03
Sylhet 8,482,255 9,910,219 85.59

While Analyzing the division wise data for 2022 Religious Population, it was found that the highest number of Muslims resides in Mymensingh division (95.54 percent), while the lowest resides in Sylhet (86.17 percent).[59]

Muslim Population across districts of Bangladesh (2011)
District Muslim population Total population Percentage (%)
Barguna 822,652 892,781 92.14
Barisal 2,040,088 2,324,310 87.77
Bhola 1,715,497 1,776,795 96.55
Jhalokati 613,750 682,669 89.90
Patuakhali 1,428,601 1,535,854 93.02
Pirojpur 925,895 1,113,257 83.17
Bandarban 197,087 388,335 50.75
Brahmanbaria 2,627,810 2,840,498 92.51
Chandpur 2,269,246 2,416,018 93.93
Chittagong 6,618,657 7,616,352 86.9
Comilla 5,123,410 5,387,288 95.10
Cox's Bazar 2,151,958 2,289,990 93.97
Feni 1,352,866 1,437,371 94.12
Khagrachhari 274,258 613,917 44.67
Lakshmipur 1,669,495 1,729,188 96.55
Noakhali 2,965,950 3,108,083 95.43
Rangamati
 209,465 595,979 35.15
Dhaka 11,400,096 12,043,977 94.65
Faridpur 1,731,133 1,912,969 90.49
Gazipur 3,200,383 3,403,912 94.02
Gopalganj 805,115 1,172,415 68.67
Kishoreganj 2,752,007 2,911,907 94.51
Madaripur 1,023,702 1,165,952 87.8
Manikganj 1,262,215 1,392,867 90.62
Munshiganj 1,328,838 1,445,660 91.92
Narayanganj 2,802,567 2,948,217 95.06
Narsingdi 2,098,829 2,224,944 94.33
Rajbari 942,957 1,049,778 89.82
Shariatpur 1,114,301 1,155,824 96.41
Tangail 3,342,596 3,605,083 92.72
Bagerhat 1,198,593 1,476,090 81.2
Chuadanga 1,100,330 1,129,015 97.46
Jessore 2,446,162 2,764,547 88.48
Jhenaidah 1,601,086 1,771,304 90.39
Khulna 1,776,749 2,318,527 76.63
Kushtia 1,888,744 1,946,838 97.02
Magura 753,199 918,419 82.01
Meherpur 640,751 655,392 97.77
Narail 586,588 721,668 81.28
Satkhira 1,625,782 1,985,959 81.86
Jamalpur 2,252,181 2,292,674 98.23
Mymensingh 4,895,267 5,110,272 95.79
Netrokona 2,001,732 2,229,642 89.78
Sherpur 1,313,519 1,358,325 96.70
Bogra 3,192,728 3,400,874 93.88
Chapai Nawabganj 1,571,151 1,647,521 95.36
Joypurhat 819,235 913,768 89.65
Naogaon 2,250,427 2,600,157 86.55
Natore 1,590,919 1,706,673 93.22
Pabna 2,445,702 2,523,179 96.93
Rajshahi 2,430,194 2,595,197 93.64
Sirajganj 2,948,505 3,097,489 95.19
Dinajpur 2,333,253 2,990,128 78.03
Gaibandha 2,205,539 2,379,255 92.7
Kurigram 1,932,779 2,069,273 93.4
Lalmonirhat 1,080,512 1,256,099 86.02
Nilphamari 1,538,916 1,834,231 83.9
Panchagarh 820,629 987,644 83.09
Rangpur 2,604,263 2,881,086 90.39
Thakurgaon 1,066,076 1,390,042 76.69
Habiganj 1,731,168 2,089,001 82.87
Maulvibazar
 1,425,786 1,919,062 74.3
Sunamganj 2,144,535 2,467,968 86.89
Sylhet 3,180,766 3,434,188 92.62

Percentage of Muslims in Bangladesh by decades[52][4]

Year Percent Increase
1901 66.1% -
1911 67.2%

+1.1%

1921 68.1%

+0.9%

1931 69.5%

+1.4%

1941 70.3%

+0.8%

1951 76.9%

+6.6%

1961 80.4% +3.5%
1974 85.4% +5.0%
1981 86.7% +1.3%
1991 88.3% +1.6%
2001 89.6% +1.3%
2011 90.4% +0.8%
2022 91.1% +0.7%

Islamic culture in Bangladesh

Bishwa Ijtema held in Dhaka by Tablighi Jamat
prayers. Photo taken at Barashalghar union of Comilla's Debidwar upazila
.

Although Islam played a significant role in the life and culture of the people, religion did not dominate national politics because Islam was not the central component of national identity.[33] When in June 1988 an "Islamic way of life" was proclaimed for Bangladesh by constitutional amendment, very little attention was paid outside the intellectual class to the meaning and impact of such an important national commitment.[33] However, most observers believed that the declaration of Islam as the state religion might have a significant impact on national life.[33] Aside from arousing the suspicion of the non-Islamic minorities, it could accelerate the proliferation of religious parties at both the national and the local levels, thereby exacerbating tension and conflict between secular and religious politicians.[33] Unrest of this nature was reported on some college campuses soon after the amendment was promulgated.[33]

Islamic architecture in Bangladesh

Khan Mohammad Mirdha Mosque in Dhaka, built in 1706 (18th century old mosque).
Further information: Architecture of Bangladesh

Mosques

Main article: List of mosques in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a vast amount of historic mosques with its own Islamic architecture.

Modern mosques

Tombs and mausoleums

Lalbagh Fort-1664

Law and politics

Legal issues

In Bangladesh, where a modified Anglo-Indian civil and criminal legal system operates, there are no official sharia courts.[33] Most Muslim marriages, however, are presided over by the qazi, a traditional Muslim judge whose advice is also sought on matters of personal law, such as inheritance, divorce, and the administration of religious endowments.[33]

The inheritance rights of Muslim in Bangladesh are governed by The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act (1937)[62] and The Muslim Family Laws Ordinance (1961).[63] Article 2 of The Muslim Personal Law Application Act provides that questions related to succession and inheritance are governed by Muslim Personal Law (Shariat).[62][64] Article 2 proclaims: "any custom or usage to the contrary, in all questions (save questions relating to agricultural land) regarding intestate succession, special property of females, including personal property inherited or obtained under contract or gift or any other provision of Personal Law, marriage, dissolution of marriage, including talaq, ila, zihar, lian, khula and mubaraat, maintenance, dower, guardianship, gifts, trusts and trust properties, and waqfs (other than charities and charitable institutions and charitable and religious endowments) the rule of decision in cases where the parties are Muslims shall be the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat)."[62]

Political issues

Post-1971 regimes sought to increase the role of the government in the religious life of the people.[33] The Ministry of Religious Affairs provided support, financial assistance, and endowments to religious institutions, including mosques and community prayer grounds (idgahs).[33] The organization of Hajj also came under the auspices of the ministry because of limits on the number of pilgrims admitted by the government of Saudi Arabia and the restrictive foreign exchange regulations of the government of Bangladesh.[33] The ministry also directed the policy and the program of the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh, which was responsible for organizing and supporting research and publications on Islamic subjects.[33] The foundation also maintains the Baitul Mukarram (National Mosque), and organized the training of imams.[33] Some 18,000 imams were scheduled for training once the government completed establishment of a national network of Islamic cultural centers and mosque libraries.[33] Under the patronage of the Islamic Foundation, an encyclopedia of Islam in the Bengali language was being compiled in the late 1980s.[33]

Another step toward further government involvement in religious life was taken in 1984 when the semiofficial Zakat Fund Committee was established under the chairmanship of the president of Bangladesh.[33] The committee solicited annual zakat contributions on a voluntary basis.[33] The revenue so generated was to be spent on orphanages, schools, children's hospitals, and other charitable institutions and projects.[33] Commercial banks and other financial institutions were encouraged to contribute to the fund.[33] Through these measures the government sought closer ties with religious establishments within the country and with Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.[33]

Leaders and organizations

The members of the Ulama include

madrassa, a school of religious education attached to a mosque. Additional study on the graduate level leads to the title Mawlānā.[33]

Educational institutions

The madrassas are also divided in two mainstreams;

Qawmi Madrasah
.

Status of religious freedom

Further information: Freedom of religion in Bangladesh and Secularism in Bangladesh
See also:
Persecution of Ahmadiyya
Friday prayer for Muslims in Dhaka

The Constitution establishes Islam as the state religion but upholds the right to practice—subject to law, public order, and morality—the religion of one's choice.

Bangladesh Awami League strongly propagates secularism and respect towards other religions. Despite all Bangladeshis saying that religion is an important part of their daily lives, Bangladesh's Awami League won a landslide victory in 2008 on a platform of secularism, reform, and a suppression of radical Islamist groups. According to a Gallup poll conducted in 2009, simultaneous strong support of the secular Awami League and the near unanimous importance of religion in daily life suggests that while religion is vital in Bangladeshis' daily lives, they appear comfortable with its lack of influence in government.[66]

In

1971 Bangladesh genocide. The charges included forced conversion of Bengali Hindus to Islam.[67][68][69]

See also

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