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Islam Beka Albiyev
Islam-Beka Albiyev (Ислам-Бека Альбиев), Russian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1988 in Grozny; 2008 Beijing Olympic champion at 60 kg, youngest Greco-Roman Olympic gold medalist, 2009 world and European champion.
Islam by country
Islam by country: the distribution of the world's roughly 2.0 billion Muslims (26% of humanity, 2020) across nations, led by Indonesia, Pakistan and India, with Pew Research Center estimates, growth trends and projections.
Islam Channel
Islam Channel: London-based English-language Islamic TV channel broadcasting since 2004, operated by Islam Channel Limited (incorporated 2003); sister channels Urdu (2015) and Bangla (2022); repeatedly fined by Ofcom, including £20,000 in 2020 for antisemitic hate speech.
Islam Dulatov (Ислам Дулатов)
Islam Dulatov (Ислам Дулатов), "The Ripper", Chechnya-born German welterweight UFC fighter and former Versace model; 12-1 record, 11 first-round finishes, UFC 318 debut KO of Adam Fugitt, 2025-2026.
Islam III Giray
Islam III Giray (1604–1654) was Khan of the Crimean Khanate from 1644 to 1654 and eldest son of Khan Selamet Giray I, allied with Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossacks against Poland before switching sides.
Islam in Africa
Islam in Africa: the continent's Muslim tradition, arriving in the 7th century via North African conquest and spreading through trans-Saharan and Swahili coast trade, with Sahel empires, Sufi brotherhoods, and about 369 million sub-Saharan Muslims.
Islam in Albania
Islam in Albania refers to the country's largest religion, brought during Ottoman rule and followed by roughly half the population as Sunnis or Bektashi, whose world headquarters sits in Tirana.
Islam in Assam
Islam in Assam covers the state's Muslim communities, 34.22% of population in 2011, split between indigenous Assamese Muslims (Syed, Goriya, Moriya, Deshi, Julha) tracing to the 1206 Bakhtiyar Khalji expedition and Bengali-speaking Miya Muslims from colonial-era migration.
Islam in Australia
Islam in Australia: Muslim Australians numbered 813,392 (3.2%) at the 2021 Census, fourth-largest affiliation. History spans Macassan traders, Afghan cameleers, post-war immigration, and multiculturalism.
Islam in Bangladesh
Islam in Bangladesh is the religion of about 91 percent of the country's people, nearly all Sunni, making it home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population.
Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or Bosnian Islam, is the Islamic tradition of the Bosniaks, established after the 1463 Ottoman conquest and institutionalized as the independent Islamic Community in 1882; it is frequently cited in the European Islam debate.
Islam in Brunei
Islam in Brunei is the official religion, Shafi'i Sunni Islam headed by the Sultan, present since the thirteenth century and practiced by about 66 percent of the population.
Islam in Canada
Islam in Canada: the Muslim religious-affiliation population, 1,775,715 people or 4.9% in the 2021 census, second-largest religion after Christianity, up from 2.0% in 2001; first mosque 1938 in Alberta; concentrated in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta.
Islam in China
Islam in China, practiced by roughly 18 to 25 million Muslims, arrived in the seventh century through Arab and Persian merchants, with the Hui and Uyghur the largest groups.
Islam in Europe
Islam in Europe: about 46 million Muslims, 6% of Europe's population in 2020, spanning indigenous Balkan communities and postwar Western European migrants. Growth is migration-driven; France and Germany have the largest populations; discrimination is rising.
Islam in France
Islam in France, also known as Muslims in France, is the country's second-largest religion, with about 10% of adults identifying as Muslim under a strict legal separation of church and state.
Islam in Germany
Islam in Germany, practiced by 5.3 to 5.6 million Muslims as of 2019, is the country's second-largest religion after Christianity, rooted in Turkish labor migration.
Islam in India
Islam in India, whose followers are called Indian Muslims, is the religion of roughly 200 million people, India's largest religious minority, present for over 1,300 years.
Islam in Indonesia
Islam in Indonesia, also known as Indonesian Islam, is the religious life of the world's largest Muslim-majority country, with roughly 87 percent of Indonesians, about 242 million people, identifying as Muslim.
Islam in Iran
Islam in Iran, also known as Iranian Islam, is dominated by Twelver Shiism, which the 1979 constitution declares the official religion, with a Sunni minority of 5 to 10 percent.
Islam in Israel
Islam in Israel is the religion of about 1.8 million Muslims, 18% of residents in 2024, mostly Arab citizens concentrated in the North and Jerusalem.
Islam in Japan
Islam in Japan, also known as Muslims in Japan, is the practice of Islam by a minority of about 420,000 people, roughly 0.3 percent of the population, in 2024.
Islam in Kerala
Islam in Kerala centers on the Mappilas, Malayali Muslims of over eight million formed from 7th-century Arab trade, blending Arab-Islamic and South Indian traditions in Arabi-Malayalam, Shafi Sunni practice, education, and Malabar-centered politics.
Islam in Malaysia
Islam in Malaysia is the religion of the Federation under Article 3 of the Constitution, practiced by 63.5 percent of Malaysians in the 2020 census.
Islam in Nigeria
Islam in Nigeria is the religion of Nigeria's Muslim community, estimated at 56 percent of the population in 2020, overwhelmingly Sunni and centered in the north.
Islam in Pakistan
Islam in Pakistan is the faith of about 96 percent of the population, a Sunni majority with a significant Shia minority, and the constitutionally declared state religion.
Islam in Palestine
Islam in Palestine: Sunni Islam is the religion of about 99% of Palestinians, the official religion under the Basic Law with sharia as the main source of legislation, administered through waqf institutions and Islamic courts since the 634 CE Muslim conquest.
Islam in Russia
Islam in Russia: a traditional religion with an estimated 17-20 million adherents, over 90 percent Sunni, concentrated in the Volga, Urals, and North Caucasus, organized into state-coordinated muftiates and shaped by Hanafi and Shafi'i traditions, Sufi brotherhoods, migration, and state control.
Islam in Saudi Arabia
Islam in Saudi Arabia is the state's official religion, with the Quran and Sunna declared the country's constitution and a Najdi reform tradition allied with the ruling family since 1744.
Islam in Spain
Islam in Spain is the religious life of the country's Muslim minority, roughly 2.4 to 2.5 million people, about 5% of the population, mostly first-generation immigrants.