Sharia is an Arabic word originally meaning "the path leading to the source of water. Is derived from the Quran and the life of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers.
Is a system of morals, religious observance, ethics, and politics that covers both religious and non-religious aspects of life. Many Muslim countries use Sharia law as a basis for their laws. Differs from Western legal systems in that the scope of Sharia law is much larger and the Islamic concept of law results from the expression of the divine will. Other Facts. According to a report by the Pew Research Center, there were 1. That number is projected to increase to 2.
Islam is the second-largest religion in the world , following Christianity. Research Topics. Try our email course on Muslims and Islam Learn about Muslims and Islam through four short lessons delivered to your inbox every other day. Share this link:. Why Muslims are the world's fastest-growing religious group. Many religions heavily concentrated in one or two countries. The countries with the 10 largest Christian populations and the 10 largest Muslim populations.
Topics Islam Muslims Around the World. Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Progressive Left? Alan Cooperman served as lead editor. Anne Shi and Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa made major contributions to data collection, storage and analysis. Bill Webster created the graphics and Stacy Rosenberg and Ben Wormald oversaw development of the interactive data presentations and the Global Religious Futures website.
Marcin Stonawski wrote the cutting-edge software used for these projections and led the collection and analysis of European data. Additionally, Guy Abel at the Vienna Institute of Demography helped construct the country-level migration flow data used in the projections. Over the past six years, a number of former Pew Research Center staff members also played critical roles in producing the population projections. Phillip Connor prepared the migration input data, wrote descriptions of migration results and methods, and helped write the chapters on each religious group and geographic region.
Noble Kuriakose was involved in nearly all stages of the project and helped draft the chapter on demographic factors and the Methodology. Former intern Joseph Naylor helped design maps, and David McClendon, another former intern, helped research global patterns of religious switching. Grim and visiting senior research fellow Mehtab Karim.
Communications support was provided by Katherine Ritchey and Russ Oates. While the data collection and projection methodology were guided by our consultants and advisers, the Pew Research Center is solely responsible for the interpretation and reporting of the data.
The remainder of this report details the projections from multiple angles. The first chapter looks at the demographic factors that shape the projections, including sections on fertility rates, life expectancy, age structure, religious switching and migration. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. If current trends continue, by … The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world. The global Buddhist population will be about the same size it was in , while the Hindu and Jewish populations will be larger than they are today.
India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia. In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in to two-thirds in , and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion.
Muslims will be more numerous in the U. Four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa. Beyond the Year This report describes how the global religious landscape would change if current demographic trends continue. Changing Religious Majorities Several countries are projected to have a different religious majority in than they did in This overall projection 9. A recent update from the United Nations has a somewhat higher estimate, 9.
The U. The Pew Research Center consulted several scholars on this historical question. Todd M. Bulliet, say it is possible that Muslims may have outnumbered Christians globally sometime between and C. All of the experts acknowledged that estimates of the size of religious groups in the Middle Ages are fraught with uncertainty. Because of the scarcity of census and survey data, Pew Research has not projected the size of individual religions within this category.
Estimates of the global size of these faiths generally come from other sources, such as the religious groups themselves.
By far the largest of these groups is Sikhs, who numbered about 25 million in , according to the World Religion Database. Estimates from other sources on the size of additional groups in this category can be found in the sidebar in Chapter 2. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving.
Islam at a glance Last updated A brief overview of Islam, a religion centred on God and revealed by the Prophet Muhammad. On this page Page options Print this page. Islam at a glance The word Islam means 'submission to the will of God'. Muslims believe that Islam was revealed over years ago in Mecca, Arabia.
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