With a 2004 estimate of 1.48 billion followers, Islam is the religion of roughly 23 percent of the world’s population (based on CIA Fact Sheet 2004). Most Muslims live in the region that extends from North Africa to South East Asia, but Muslim minorities across Europe and the Americas are the second or third largest religious communities
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What is the ‘Land of Islam’? One of the main concepts that shape Muslim minorities’ worldview and lifestyle is the concept of ‘Muslim countries’, or in other expressions, the ‘Islamic World’ or the ‘Land of Islam’. This concept has a great impact on the ‘contextualisation’ of Muslims in the west in general and in the UK in specific.
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Book Title: Islamic Thought: An Approach to Reform – Author: Taha Jabir Al-Alwani – Translator: Nancy Riberts – Publisher: The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) – Year of Publication: 2006
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