Islam in Nigeria
About 85,000,000 Nigerians are Muslims. That is about half of the people of Nigeria. Most of the other people are Christian.[1][2][3] Muslims in Nigeria are mostly Sunni in the Maliki school, which is also the Sharia law in the government. However, there is a important Shia minority, mostly in Sokoto State (see Shia in Nigeria). A smaller number of people follow the Ahmadiyya Islam, a reformatory sect that started in India in the 19th century. Pew Forum on religious diversity says that 12% are Shia Muslims while 3% are Ahmadi Muslims.[4]
Islam In Nigeria Media
A page of the Qur'an written in the Hausawi script of Hausaland
Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1875
A 19th-century Qur'an written in the Barnawi script of Bornu
The national mosque during Harmattan
A page from a 19th-century Qur'an written in the Fulani script
References
- ↑ Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
- ↑ CIA – The World Factbook – Nigeria. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ↑ Mapping out the Global Muslim Population. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ↑ The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity (August 9, 2012)Pew Forum on Religious & Public life. Retrieved August 14, 2012.