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{{infobox religious group
| group = Muslims
| population = {{Circa|'''2 billion'''|lk=yes}} worldwide (2020)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/muslim-population-by-country |title=Muslim Population By Country 2021 |website=World Population Review |access-date=22 July 2021 }}</ref><ref name="auto2">Lipka, Michael, and Conrad Hackett. [2015] 6 April 2017. "[https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/06/why-muslims-are-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religious-group/ Why Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing religious group]" (data analysis). ''Fact Tank''. US: [[Pew Research Center]].</ref>
| founder = [[Muhammad]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|vauthors=Welch, Alford T, Moussalli, Ahmad S, Newby, Gordon D|title=Muḥammad|encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World|editor=John L. Esposito|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|year=2009|url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0550|quote=The Prophet of Islam was a religious, political, and social reformer who gave rise to one of the great civilizations of the world. From a modern, historical perspective, Muḥammad was the founder of Islam. From the perspective of the Islamic faith, he was God's Messenger (rasūl Allāh), called to be a “warner,” first to the Arabs and then to all humankind.}}</ref>
 | image     = [[File:Jean-Léon Gérôme - Prayers in the Mosque (1892) (Sotheby's).jpg|300px]]
 | caption   = ''Prayers in the Mosque'' (1892) by [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]]
 | region1 = {{flag|Indonesia}}
 | pop1 = 231,070,000 
 | ref1 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/indonesia/|title=The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency|website=www.cia.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-05-24|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
 
 | region2 = {{flag|Pakistan}}
 | pop2 = 213,161,100
 | ref2 = <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files//population_census/sailent_feature_%20census_2017.pdf |title=SALIENT FEATURES OF FINAL RESULTS |access-date=2021-09-10 |archive-date=2021-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829194924/https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files//population_census/sailent_feature_%20census_2017.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pakistan Population (2020) - Worldometer|url=https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/pakistan-population/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=www.worldometers.info|language=en}}</ref>

 | region3 = {{flag|India}}
 | pop3 = 207,000,000
 | ref3 =<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaonlinepages.com/population/muslim-population-in-india.html|title=Muslim Population in India - Muslims in Indian States|website=www.indiaonlinepages.com|access-date=2017-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908034112/http://www.indiaonlinepages.com/population/muslim-population-in-india.html|archive-date=8 September 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=bynumbers>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/religious-communities-census-2011-what-the-numbers-say/article7582284.ece|title=India's religions by numbers|newspaper=The Hindu|date=26 August 2015|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref>

 | region4 = {{flagicon|Bangladesh}} [[Bangladesh]]
 | pop4 = 153,700,000
 | ref4 =<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bangladesh/ |title=South Asia :: Bangladesh — The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency |website=cia.gov |access-date=14 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/256513.pdf|title=BANGLADESH 2015 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pewforum.org/interactives/muslim-population-graphic/#/Bangladesh|title=The Future of the Global Muslim Population|date=2011-01-15|work=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project|access-date=2017-05-24|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524215707/http://www.pewforum.org/interactives/muslim-population-graphic/#/Bangladesh|archive-date=24 May 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

 | region5 = {{nowrap|{{flag|Nigeria}}}}
 | pop5 = 99,100,000
 | ref5 = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/nigeria/|title=The World Factbook|access-date=31 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

 | region6 = {{flag|Egypt}}
 | pop6 = 95,000,000
 | ref6 = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/egypt/|title=The World Factbook|access-date=31 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

 | region7 = {{flag|Iran}}
 | pop7 = 82,900,000
 | ref7 = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/iran/|title=The World Factbook|access-date=31 December 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

 | region8 = {{flag|Turkey}}
 | pop8 = 82,800,000
 | ref8 = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/turkey/|title=The World Factbook|access-date=31 December 2017|df=dmy-all|archive-date=10 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110073821/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/turkey/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

| region9 = {{flag|China}}
 | pop9 = 60,000,000—80,000,000
 | ref9 = <ref>{{Cite book|last=Gorder|first=A. Christian van|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JIziDwAAQBAJ&q=80+million+muslims+in+china&pg=PT115|title=Islam, Peace and Social Justice: A Christian Perspective|date=2014-05-29|publisher=ISD LLC|isbn=978-0-227-90200-4|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2010/148863.htm|title=China (Includes Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau)|website=U.S. Department of State|access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref>

| region10 = {{flag|Algeria}}
 | pop10 = 42,000,000
 | ref10 = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4cf2d0a85c.html|title=Refworld - 2010 Report on International Religious Freedom - China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau)|author=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|website=Refworld|access-date=14 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017100901/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4cf2d0a85c.html|archive-date=17 October 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
 | languages = [[Arabic language|Arabic]] (also [[Sacred language|liturgical]]), [[Urdu]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Malay language|Malay]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Javanese language|Javanese]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Hausa language|Hausa]], [[Mandarin Chinese]] & other [[Sinitic languages]] and languages of the [[Muslim world]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Khan, Muhammad Mojlum|author-link=Muhammad Mojlum Khan|title=The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal|publisher=Kube Publishing|year=2013|location=[[England]]|page=2|quote="Bengali-speaking Muslims... one of the largest linguistic groups... second only to the Arabs"}}</ref>{{sfn|Talbot|Singh|2009|loc=p. 27, footnote 3}}<ref>{{cite report|url=http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/47/04706745/0470674547-196.pdf |title=Chapter 1: Global Religious Populations, 1910–2010 |last1=Grim |first1=Brian J. |last2=Johnson |first2=Todd M. |date=2013 |publisher=Wiley |access-date=10 March 2017 |page=22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020100448/http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/47/04706745/0470674547-196.pdf |archive-date=20 October 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/ethnologue200|title=What are the top 200 most spoken languages?|date=2018-10-03|website=Ethnologue|language=en|access-date=2019-12-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Al-Jallad|first=Ahmad|title=Polygenesis in the Arabic Dialects|date=30 May 2011|url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-arabic-language-and-linguistics/polygenesis-in-the-arabic-dialects-EALL_SIM_000030?s.num=1&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopedia-of-arabic-language-and-linguistics&s.q=neo-arabic|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815234348/http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-arabic-language-and-linguistics/polygenesis-in-the-arabic-dialects-EALL_SIM_000030?s.num=1&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopedia-of-arabic-language-and-linguistics&s.q=neo-arabic|archive-date=15 August 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="auto6">{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4cf2d0a85c.html |title=Refworld – 2010 Report on International Religious Freedom – China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau) |last=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |website=Refworld |access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref><ref>Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), ''[[SIL Ethnologue]]''</ref>
| scriptures = [[Quran]]<ref name="Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Nasr|first=Seyyed Hossein|author-link=Seyyed Hossein Nasr|title=Qurʼān|year=2007|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|access-date=4 November 2007|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-68890/Quran|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016200056/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-68890/Quran|archive-date=16 October 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
| religions = 80–90% [[Sunni Islam]]<br>12–17% [[Shia Islam]]<br>~1% [[Ibadi Islam]] <br>~1% Other Muslim traditions, e.g. Mutazilites Islam<ref name=affiliation>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2012/08/09/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-1-religious-affiliation/#identity|title=Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation|date=9 August 2012|website=The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]'s Religion & Public Life Project|access-date=4 September 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226113158/http://www.pewforum.org/2012/08/09/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-1-religious-affiliation/#identity|archive-date=26 December 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>}}

A '''Muslim''' is a [[Human|person]] who believes in [[Islam]], an [[Abrahamic religions|Abrahamic]] [[Monotheism|monotheistic]] [[religion]]. Islam is a [[monotheism|monotheistic]] religion from [[Abrahamic religions|Abrahamic]] beginnings. Muslims believe the [[Qur'an]] is a book of the words that the God of Abraham (or [[Allah]]) gave to the [[Muhammad|Prophet Muhammad]]. Alongside the Qur'an, Muslims also believe in previous revelations of God, such as the ''Tawrat'' ([[Torah]]), the ''Zabur'' ([[Psalms]]), the ''Injeel'' ([[Gospel]]), the ''Scrolls of Abraham'', and the ''Scrolls of Moses''. Muslims believe human beings will be judged for how they lived on the Day of Judgement by Allah. Muslim men are usually circumcised.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/malecircumcision.shtml|title=BBC - Religions - Islam: Circumcision of boys}}</ref>

== Muslims around the World ==
Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Qur'an forming the basis of Islamic religious belief. Muslim conquests following Muhammad's death led to the creation of the Arab caliphates, occupying a vast geographical area. The Islamic conquests culminated in the Arab Empire being established across three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe). Today, there are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, which is about 1 person in every 4 people. The Muslim population continues to grow.

== Related pages ==
* [[Islam]]
* [[Islamic state]]
* [[Non-denominational Muslims]]
* [[Arabs]]
* [[Caliphate]]
* [[Umayyad Caliphate]]

== References ==
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==Other websites==
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*[http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/legal-rulings/53-ritual-prayer-its-meaning-and-manner.html Ritual Prayer: Its Meaning and Manner] – The Islamic Supreme Council of America.
*[http://teachmiddleeast.lib.uchicago.edu/historical-perspectives/rulership-and-justice/islamic-period/essay/essay-02.html Muhammad and the First Muslim Ummah] – University of Chicago
* [http://www.islamophobiatoday.com/ ''Islamophobia Today'' Newspaper] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922184915/http://www.islamophobiatoday.com/ |date=2021-09-22 }} – An Islamophobia news clearing house
* [https://www.academia.edu/24419416/UNDERSTANDING_and_COUNTERING_ISLAMOPHOBIA Sammy Aziz Rahmatti, ''Understanding and Countering Islamophobia'']
*[[Wiktionary:Wikisaurus:Muslim|WikiSaurus:Muslim]]
* {{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/religion/articles/2008/04/07/understanding-islam |title=Understanding Islam |website=Susan Headden |date=7 April 2008 |access-date=25 August 2010}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html |title=Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents |publisher=Adherents.com |access-date=3 July 2007}}

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