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Islam is the largest and the state religion of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.[1][2] According to the 2022 census, Bangladesh had a population of about 150 million Muslims, or 91.04%[3] of its total population of 165 million.[4] Muslims of Bangladesh are predominant native Bengali Muslims. The majority of Bangladeshis are Sunni, and follow the Hanafi school of fiqh. Bangladesh is a de facto secular country.[5][6]
The Bengal region was a supreme power of the medieval Islamic East.[7] In the late 7th century, Muslims from Arabia established commercial as well as religious connection within the Bengal region before the conquest, mainly through the coastal regions as traders and primarily via the ports of Chittagong.[8] In the early 13th century, Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji conquered Western and part of Northern Bengal and established the first Muslim kingdom in Bengal.[9] During the 13th century, Sufi missionaries, mystics and saints began to preach Islam in villages.[10] The Islamic Bengal Sultanate was founded by Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah who united Bengal on an ethno-linguistic platform. Bengal reached in her golden age during Bengal Sultanate's prosperous ruling period. Subsequently, Bengal viceroy Muhammad Azam Shah assumed the imperial throne. Mughal Bengal became increasingly independent under the Nawabs of Bengal in the 18th century.[11][12][13]
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- ^ Epigraphy and Islamic Culture: Inscriptions of the Early Muslim Rulers of Bengal. Routledge. 19 November 2015. p. 30. ISBN 9781317587460.
- ^ Raj Kumar (2003). Essays on Ancient India. Discovery Publishing House. p. 199. ISBN 978-81-7141-682-0.
- ^ Majumdar, R. C. (1973). History of Mediaeval Bengal. Calcutta: G. Bharadwaj & Co. pp. 1–2. OCLC 1031074.
Tradition gives him credit for the conquest of Bengal but as a matter of fact he could not subjugate the greater part of Bengal ... All that Bakhtyār can justly take credit for is that by his conquest of Western and a part of Northern Bengal he laid the foundation of the Muslim State in Bengal. The historians of the 13th century never attributed the conquest of the whole of Bengal to Bakhtyār.
- ^ "Bangladesh - Islam in Bangladesh". countrystudies.us. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ Travers, T. R. (July 2004). "'The Real Value of the Lands': The Nawabs, the British and the Land Tax in Eighteenth-Century Bengal". Modern Asian Studies. 38 (3): 517–558. doi:10.1017/S0026749X03001148. ISSN 1469-8099.
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