National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) census, there were only 2,500 individuals who identified Islam as their religion.[2] Most Muslims are foreign nationals and the majority are Sunni.[3][4]
Today, most Mexican Islamic organizations focus on grassroots missionary activities, which are most effective at the community level.
The Centro Cultural Islámico de México (CCIM), a
Sufi
Order in Mexico City which is often at odds with the traditionalist Muslim community and is headed by two women, Shaykha Fatima Fariha and Shaykha Amina Teslima.
There is also a small
Salafi organization (the Centro Salafi de México) led by Muhammad Abdullah Ruiz (a former deputy to Weston) and an educational centre managed mainly by Muslims from Egypt and the Middle East, el "Centro Educativo de la Comunidad Musulmana en México" (run by Said Louahabi),and centro al hikmah run by Isa Rojas a Mexican convert to Islam, who studied Islamic studies in the University of Medina, within the capital city.[5] At first, the CCIM which headed by Muhammad Ruiz were closed, until it reopened in 1998 due to support from Saudi Arabia embassy, then from 2011 book which contained the claim by Muhammad Ruiz, he claimed that the active members in Mexico city are around 200 members, which half of it are Mexican converts.[6] This number does not included the Sufis, Muslims from other organizations, and non practitioners.[6]
Muhammad Ruiz Al Meksiki, general director of the Salafi Center of Mexico (CSM), estimates that in 2015, there are about 10,000 Muslims in Mexico.[7]
Demographics
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Islam represents less than 0.01% of the population.[8]
Islam has been present in Mexico since the mid-1950s due to mass Spaniard and Arab settlement. The Spanish
Tzotzils have converted to Islam.[11] In San Cristóbal, the Murabitun established a pizzeria, a carpentry workshop[12] and a Quranic school (madrasa) where children learned Arabic and prayed five times a day in the backroom of a residential building, and women in head scarves have become a common sight.[9] Nowadays, most of the Mayan Muslims have left the Murabitun and established ties with the CCIM, now following the orthodox Sunni school of Islam. They built the Al-Kausar Mosque in San Cristobal de las Casas. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Native Mexicans today are non-Muslims.[citation needed]Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas entered into an alliance with Chiapas Muslims in the 1980s.[9]
Mudejar influence.[14] It was built by the Spanish Dominican friars during the Colonial era in the sixteenth century.[15]
The Morisco Kiosk (Moorish Kiosk) in Colonia Santa María la Ribera was made by José Ramón Ibarrola for the Universal Exhibition of New Orleans from 1884-1885, in the neo-Mudejar style that was prevailing in Spain in the 19th century.[16][17]
^"Chiapa de Corzo" (in Spanish). Chiapas, Mexico: Secretaría de Turismo de Chiapas. Archived from the original on January 19, 2011. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
^"Chiapa de Corzo". Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México Estado de Chiapas (in Spanish). Mexico: Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal and Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas. 2005. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
^Arturo Reyes Fragoso (August 13, 2006). "Santa María la Ribera, colonia centenaria" [Santa María la Ribera, the century colonia]. El Universal (in Spanish). Mexico City. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
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