Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان) are adherents of Islam who identify ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis. With a population of more than 109 million,[4][5] they are the largest ethnic group in Pakistan and the world's third-largest Islam-adhering ethnicity[6] after Arabs[7] and Bengalis.[8] The majority of Punjabi Muslims are adherents of Sunni Islam, while a minority adhere to Shia Islam. They are primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan, but many have ancestry from the Punjab region as a whole.
Forming the majority of the Punjabi ethnicity in the greater Punjab region[4] Punjabi Muslims speak or identify the Punjabi language (under a Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi) as their mother tongue.
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^roughly 152 million Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh and 36.4 million Bengali Muslims in the Republic of India (CIA Factbook 2014 estimates, numbers subject to rapid population growth); about 10 million Bangladeshis in the Middle East, 1 million Bengalis in Pakistan, 5 million British Bangladeshi.
PunjabiMuslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان) are adherents of Islam who identify ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis. With...
Sikhs or Hindus with a Muslim minority. Punjab is also the birthplace of Sikhism and the movement Ahmadiyya. PunjabiMuslims are found almost exclusively...
PunjabiMuslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally, or genealogically Punjabis. Primarily geographically...
subcontinent. Punjabi Hindus are the second-largest religious group of the Punjabi community, after the PunjabiMuslims. While Punjabi Hindus mostly inhabit...
religions. Historically, the Punjabi Sikhs and Punjabi Hindus have used the ancient Bikrami (Vikrami) calendar. PunjabiMuslims use the Arabic Hijri calendar...
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Punjabi culture grew out of the settlements along the five rivers (the name Punjab, is derived from two Persian words, Panj meaning "Five" and Âb meaning...
PunjabiMuslim tribes, castes and surnames, mainly those with origins in Punjab, Pakistan. Note that some of these may have a significant non-Muslim population...
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(namely, the late 19th century and early 20th century) Punjabi Sikhs, Punjabi Hindus and PunjabiMuslims formed two separate regiments. The regiments were...
Jat Muslim or Musalman Jat (Punjabi: جٹ مسلمان; Sindhi: مسلمان جاٽ), also spelled Jatt or Jutt (Punjabi pronunciation: [d͡ʒəʈːᵊ]), are an elastic and...
Muslim communities in South Asia apply a system of social stratification. The stratification that operates among Muslims arises from concerns other than...
ethnoreligious communities of the Punjab region with the others being Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus. Punjabi Christians are traditionally divided into various castes,...
majority of Pakistani Punjabis are Sunni Muslim by faith, but also include significant minority faiths, such as Shia Muslims, Ahmadi Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and...
of the Medieval India and the Islamic Golden age. He is revered by PunjabiMuslims, Hindus and Sikhs alike. Bābā Farīd was born in 1188 (573 AH) in Kothewal...
According to Dhavan, Punjabi began to adopt the script as a "side effect" of educational practices in Mughal-era Punjab, when PunjabiMuslims learned the Persian...
oneness of Waheguru (the creator of the universe). Today, some Sindhis and Punjabis adhere to elements of Sikhism despite being Hindus. They generally do not...
The Gakhar (Punjabi: گاکھر, romanized: Gakkhaŕ) is a historical PunjabiMuslim tribe with origins in the northern Punjab, Pakistan. The Gakhars now predominantly...
337 Punjabi Sikhs, 27 PunjabiMuslims and 12 Punjabi Hindus. By 1923, Vancouver became the primary cultural, social, and religious centre of Punjabi Canadians...
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and Wales. London has the greatest population of Muslims in the country. The vast majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom adhere to Sunni Islam, while...
Arain (also known as Raeen) are a large PunjabiMuslim agricultural community with a strong political identity and level of organisation. At the beginning...
their service, many of these Punjabis returned to the subcontinent. Amongst the men who remained, those who were Muslims married local women and integrated...
form the largest ethnic group among Muslims in the world, followed by Bengalis, and Punjabis. Over 75–90% of Muslims are Sunni. The second and third largest...
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