[83] The mayor of Moscow claims that four mosques are sufficient for the population. " Russia's Turning Muslim, Says Mufti " is the startling headline in the Times of London today. Many of the religious leaders were poorly trained and seemed more interested in politics than religion. [27] Muslim Turkics and Buddhist Kalmyks served as Cossacks. . Afterward, the Ottoman Empire offered to harbor the Circassians who did not wish to accept the rule of a Christian monarch, and many emigrated to Anatolia (the heart of the Ottoman Empire) and ended up in modern Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, and Kosovo. [72] Various distinct ethnic groups also inhabit the North Caucasus. [14] The first people to become Muslims within current Russian territory, the Dagestani people (region of Derbent), converted after the Arab conquest of the region in the 8th century. The Russian Criminal Code's article 'on the incitement of hatred or attacks on the dignity of a person, based on race, nationality, language or faith' can result in punishment in the form of . Moscow has the largest Muslim community in Europe. It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 per square mile). Since Soviet times, the Russian government has divided Russia into a number of Muslim Spiritual Directorates. [102], Russia has an adult literacy rate of 100%. Followers of our Prophet Muhammad came to Russia 22 years after he left earthly life.. The number of mosques in Russia increased from around 500 in the Soviet era to around 5,000 around 2000. Later that year, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan withdrew recognition from the muftiate for European Russia and Siberia and created their own muftiate. While the Muslim population will grow faster than the non-Muslim population over the next 20 years, the population's rate of growth will be . The changing demographics mean that dozens of new mosques will need to be built in Russias largest cities, Gainutdin, the Govorit Moskva radio station when asked if the, Russia Will Be One-Third Muslim in 15 Years, Chief Mufti Predicts. The current population of the Russian Federation is 146,093,083 as of Tuesday, January 17, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data. Most Shias live in Derbent, southern Dagestan. And the first Adhan, call to worship, in Russia, was made on the lands of Dagestan, the mufti said. Among them are two magazines in Russian, Ekho Kavkaza and Islamskiy vestnik , and the Russian-language newspaper Islamskiye novosti , which is published in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Many of the indigenous Russian Muslims are Tatars and Bashkirs of the Volga region and Chechens and Ingush in the Caucasus. The number of Muslims is increasing, in part because their birthrate is higher. Although history of Islam religion in India dates back to 12th century, the nation is currently home to over 10% of the world's Muslim population. In April 1998, the group publicly declared that its long-term aim was the creation of a union of Chechnya and Dagestan under Islamic rule and the expulsion of Russians from the entire Caucasian Region. , 2000. The rest of the world other than the Muslim world are silent spectators watching/ facing the beastly brute Muslims. Various estimates place the current Muslim population in Russia at between 14 million and, people, or between 10 to 14 percent of Russia's total, According to experts, Russias [Muslim] population will increase to 30 percent in a decade and a half,. km (6,323,482 sq. However, the Chechen government's grip on Chechnya was weak, especially outside the ruined capital Grozny. Also radical and extremist streams of Islam started taking root, initially in western (upland) Dagestan. Other areas with notable Muslim minorities include Moscow, Saint Petersburg, the republics of Adygea, North Ossetia-Alania and Astrakhan, Moscow, Orenburg and Ulyanovsk oblasts. [11] Subsequently, the nation has an ageing population, with the median age of the country being 40.3 years. [111] There are ten highly prestigious federal universities across the country. Russian Army will be a majority Muslim Army by 2020. The Hindu population growth rate is expected to fall even further. [59], The principal cause of death in Russia are cardiovascular diseases. Many other Caucasian Muslims ended up in neighboring Iran - sizeable numbers of Shia Lezgins, Azerbaijanis, Muslim Georgians, Kabardins, and Laks. It used to be the Jews, now they have all gone to Israel. [8], The history of Islam and Russia encompasses periods of conflict between the Muslim minority and the Orthodox majority, as well as periods of collaboration and mutual support. [115] Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city entirely within Europe, the most populous urban area in Europe,[114] the most populous metropolitan area in Europe,[115] and also the largest city by land area on the European continent. [35][36], There are an estimated four million undocumented immigrants from the ex-Soviet states in Russia. Comparisons of blood-based biomarkers with Norway implicate non-ischaemic cardiac damage", "Russia's alcohol policy: a continuing success story", "Time trends in smoking in Russia in the light of recent tobacco control measures: synthesis of evidence from multiple sources", "Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) Russian Federation", "Preventing suicide: Russian Federation adapts WHO self-harm monitoring tool", "Russia's population undergoes largest ever peacetime decline", International Journal of Political Economy, "Russia's Jews fear resurgent anti-Semitism amid Ukraine war", "Russia and Ukraine Fight, But Their People Seek Reconciliation", "Background Briefing: Why is Russia's North Caucasus region unstable? [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *]. Most of them work in the construction, cleaning and in the household industries. In 2006, countries with a Muslim majority had an average population growth rate of 1.8% per year (when weighted by percentage Muslim and population size). Wahhabis have been accused of stirring up trouble in Dagestan and being behind bloody clashes between rival Muslim groups there. [110] The oldest and largest universities in Russia are Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University. The faith was introduced by merchants visiting the Swahili coast, as it became connected to a larger maritime trade network dominated by Muslims.This would lead to local conversions and assimilations of . Analysis of excess deaths from official government demographic statistics, based on births and deaths and excluding migration, showed that Russia had its biggest ever annual population drop in peacetime, with the population declining by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021, which demographer Alexei Raksha interpreted as being primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those that remained loyal to Russia were settled into the lowlands, on the left bank of the Kuban' River. ", "Russia's population undergoes largest ever peacetime decline, analysis shows", "Fertility rate, total (births per woman) - Russian Federation", "Mapped: Which country has the most immigrants? The areas controlled by separatist groups grew larger and the country became increasingly lawless. RUSSIA AND EURASIA Today "it is openly said that Russiais not only an Orthodox, but also a Muslim country. In fertility rates, 2.1 and above is a stable population and has been marked blue, 2 and below leads to an aging population and the result is that the population decreases. The Islamic Cultural Center of Russia, which includes a madrassa (religious school), opened in Moscow in 1991. [57][58][59][60], Islam has been expanding under Putin's rule. According to US Department of State in 2017, Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population. There are also an additional 3 million to 4 million migrants from former Soviet states. The mayor of Moscow said that Moscow cannot do without worker migrants. [85][86] According to the Russian Census of 2002, 142.6million across the country spoke Russian, 5.3million spoke Tatar, and 1.8million spoke Ukrainian. Population Research and Policy Review, 2000, 19: 397419. The period from the Russian conquest of Kazan in 1552 by Ivan the Terrible to the ascension of Catherine the Great in 1762 featured systematic Russian repression of Muslims through policies of exclusion and discrimination - as well as the destruction of Muslim culture by the elimination of outward manifestations of Islam such as mosques. There are also about 20,000 to 32,000 Druze living mostly in the north of Jordan, even though most Druze no longer consider themselves Muslim. [106] Regional authorities regulate education within their jurisdictions within the prevailing framework of federal laws. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islam experienced revival in southern Russia and the Northern Caucasus. Later most of the European and Caucasian Turkic peoples also became followers of Islam. A census in 2002 counted 14.5 million while Russian Muslim leaders claim there are 23 million. In colonial and post-colonial times, dawah has been dramatically affected by the strength of the Muslims and various political and sectarian issues lingering in almost every . About 10% or more than two million are Shia Muslims. They are objects of discrimination and abuse and are often the targets of round-ups of "illegal" residents without residence permits. Sources: Our World In Data and Gapminder Foundation.[22]. [22] These elevated fertility rates did not lead to population growth due to the casualties of the Russian Revolution, the two world wars and political killings. Their follow-up study in 2011 found that the number of mosques had grown to 2,106, and the 2020 version found 2,769 mosques . 144,683,688. [112], Moscow, the capital and largest city of Russia, Saint Petersburg, the cultural capital and the second-largest city. The 2000 estimates appear to have undercounted Muslims in Cyprus, France, Guatemala, Hungary, Slovakia and Vietnam, while overcounting the number in Laos, Lesotho and Taiwan. Harassment and attacks of people from the Caucasus increased after terrorist attacks involving Chechens. Sudan (39,585,777) Even though the nations on the list above have the most Muslims, several smaller countries have a greater concentration of Muslims than the larger ones. Shireen Tahmasseb Hunter, Jeffrey L. Thomas, Alexander Melikishvili. [16], The Tatars of the Crimean Khanate, the last remaining successor to the Golden Horde, continued to raid Southern Russia and burnt down parts of Moscow in 1571. [60] Obesity is a prevalent health issue in Russia; 61.1% of Russian adults were overweight or obese in 2016. Kazan has a large Muslim population (probably the second after Moscow urban group of the Muslims and the biggest indigenous group in Russia) and is home to the Russian Islamic University in Kazan, Tatarstan. The Muslim community in Russia continues to grow, having reached 25 million, according to the grand mufti of Russia, Sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin. Many mosques (for some estimates,[50] more than 83% in Tatarstan) were closed. A study conducted in 2000 by the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership identified 1,209 mosques in the U.S. that year. The Russian Opposition and most of the Russian population opposes worker migration. [64], In 1991, Chechnya declared independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. [17] Until the late 18th century, the Crimean Tatars maintained a massive slave-trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, exporting about 2 million slaves from Russia and Ukraine over the period 15001700.[18]. In 2022, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) found that 68% of Russians identified Orthodox Christians, 1% were Protestants, 6% were Muslims, 4% belonged to other religions, 20% had no religion in particular and 1% were unsure about their belief. Thus, combatting Islamophobia is sacrosanct. [55] Its healthcare expenditure is notably lower than other developed nations. By 2020, Muslims are expected to account for one-fifth of the population. Minority groups", " ", "Moscow mayor: No more mosques in my city", "7500 Mosques Have Been Erected In Russia Since Putin Became President", "Moscow's Muslims find no room in the mosque", "Litvinenko converted to Islam father says", "On The Road | British investigators land in Moscow", Reasons and Consequences: Banning Hadiths and Seerah in Russia, onislam.net, History of Hajj in Russia from 18th to 21st century, Islam in Russia (History & Facts), onislam.net, Chris Kutschera - "The Rebirth of Islam in Tatarstan", Russia has a Muslim dilemma Ethnic Russians hostile to Muslims, Islam, Russian Orthodox Church Relations and the State in Post-communist Russia. A large proportion of them died in transit from disease. There are believed to be around 20 million Muslims in Russia. Central mosque of Karachaevsk, Karachaevo-Cherkessia. Hence in communal riots the police, which is 98% . [34] New citizenship rules introduced in April 2014 allowing eligible citizens from former Soviet republics to obtain Russian citizenship, have gained strong interest among Russian-speaking residents of those countries (i.e. [23] The government of Russia paid Islamic scholars from the Ural-Volga area working among the Kazakhs[24], Islamic slavery did not have racial restrictions. added that spirituality was still the need of the population in light of the increasing cost of living and the Ukraine-Russia conflict. ", "Putin Points Muslim Rage at Cold War Foes", "Chechnya declares public holiday to support huge anti-Charlie Hebdo rally", "Because of Syria, Moscow Focusing on Sunni-Shiite Divide Within Russia", "Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi - IslamDag.info", "Checkmate fighter puts Russia ahead of the game", " - " " ", http://www.allrussia.ru/pressreview/default.asp?id=37870&rub_id=19&VYear=2000&VMonth=4&VDay=18, "European Public Opinion Three Decades After the Fall of Communism 6. Asia's population increased from 1.4 billion in 1950 to 4.7 billion in. [11], Muslims form a majority of the population of the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in the Volga Federal District and predominate among the nationalities in the North Caucasian Federal District located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea: the Circassians, Balkars, Chechens, Ingush, Kabardin, Karachay, and numerous Dagestani peoples. 1%), Baptists, Pentecostals, Lutherans and other Protestant churches (together totalling about 0.5% of the population) and Old Believers. Germany and the United Kingdom also have large muslim populations with 4.95 million and 4.13. Sufi rituals, practiced to give the Chechens spiritual strength to resist foreign oppression, became legendary among Russian troops fighting the Chechens during tsarist times. More than 90% of Muslims in Russia adhere to the Sunni Islam. Thus in UP, while the Muslim population is about 18%, the UP police has only about 2% Muslims. The number of mosques dropped from 34,000 in the former Soviet Union before 1917 to 400 afterwards, Under Stalin, Muslim leaded were deported and sent to labor camps. Money from the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, has financed the building of mosques and helped Russian Muslims to become better organized. "[63], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Northern Caucasus experienced an Islamic (as well as a national) renaissance. For the first time since the 7th century AD, England is no longer majority-Christian. In Islam, each country has its own spiritual institutionalisation.. In 2021, while economies were on the road to recovery, the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, which began in the first quarter of 2022, put the world economy in jeopardy once again. [37][38] Napoleon's forces faced off against Kalmyks on horseback. In the 2021 census, there were 3.9 million Muslims (6.5%): an increase of 44% in just ten years. Sat, 6 Aug 2005. updated Tue, 23 Dec 2008. 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