Islam in Zanzibar is the majority religion in the autonomous province of Tanzania Zanzibar . According to the CIA and the Russian Foreign Ministry, 99% of the inhabitants of Zanzibar profess Islam [1] [2] .
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History
Around the middle of the 1st millennium BC e. Persian merchants appeared on the coast of present Tanzania, and then Arab ones. They brought Islam to the territory of modern Tanzania. It was then that a new ethnic community emerged - Swahili . In 1107, the first mosque in the southern hemisphere, the Kizimkazi mosque [3], was built by the natives of Shiraz on the island of Unguja. During the sultanate, Zanzibar became the largest slave trade center in East Africa. In the 19th century, about 50 thousand slaves were sold annually through Zanzibar [4] . Islam was the state religion of the sultanate. Sheikh Abdullah Saleh Farsi was the first to translate the Quran into Swahili.
Current situation
The vast majority of Muslims in Zanzibar are Sunnis of the Shafi'i madhhab , the minority are Shiites - Ibadites, Ismailis, Shiites-twenties , there are also Ahmadites [5] .
Notes
- ↑ The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency (inaccessible link) . www.cia.gov. Date of treatment September 29, 2018. Archived December 12, 2016.
- ↑ Consular Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . www.kdmid.ru. Date of treatment October 3, 2018.
- ↑ Kizimkazi Mosque . ArchNet Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Date of treatment September 4, 2010. Archived on May 9, 2012.
- ↑ http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/10/01/html/ft_20011001.6.html National Geographic article
- ↑ Abdul Sheriff. The history & conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town . - Dept. of Archives, Museums & Antiquities in association with J. Currey, 1995 .-- 176 p. - ISBN 9780852557211 .
Literature
- Zanzibar // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- "Eco-Islam hits Zanzibar fishermen BBC News, February 17, 2005
- “ROLE OF ISLAM ON POLITICS IN ZANZIBAR” by Khatib A. Rajab