World continents Islamic countries _ month Yau Kwang

Modern world's largest Islamic international organization is "OIC" Organizationof the English is Islamic Conference, hereinafter referred to as OIC, 1969 in Morocco Rabat, the capital of the Islamic Summit Conference decided to establish, 1979, officially proclaimed. This organization now has full Member States 57, most Islamic countries in Africa, in the 53 African countries have 27 in the OIC Member States, the Islamic countries. Followed by the 14 West and Central Asia countries, seven Southeast Asian countries. There are two States in South America: Guyana and Suriname; Europe has only one official Member States Albania. South America, Guyana and Suriname, the Christian population accounted for 50%, while the Muslim only 20-30%, Muslim population were 7 million and 10 million, the local political, economic and cultural influence is very big, and the other for Hinduism and indigenous traditional religion. The world's Muslims most pure State is Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, 100% are Muslim, followed by Turkey and the Muslim population of 70 million, accounting for 99%. The most populous Muslim countries are Indonesia, 3 2 billion Muslim population of millions of 88 per cent of the total, and the rest of the population is Christian, Hindu or Buddhist. African Muslim countries are Nigeria, there are 7 million. Asia's largest Muslim population, the State-owned Pakistan national 1 million population, Muslims accounted for 97%; followed by Bangladesh, $ 4 million population, Muslims accounted for 83% of that in these two countries, only a minority of Christians and the followers of India. India times apply to join the Organization of the Islamic Association, on the grounds that India is a large Muslim population, more than $ 2 million, but India is the traditional Hindu-dominated country and culture, each application will be rejected. Is in the Islamic countries in Central Asia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union appeared, because the Soviet political eliminate all religion, atheism, subject to national law, no thought of Islamic legitimacy, the Islamic educational forced to go underground, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Central Asia, formerly of Muslim countries have faith and national culture of recovery, all joined the Islamic member organizations, such as the thoroughfares, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan assais, etc, and these are the absolute majority of the Muslim population of the country. Member countries in Africa, but the largest Muslim population, only 16 billion Muslims in the world of the quarter, mainly in North Africa, such as Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Somalia. In these countries, Muslim population accounted for the majority, and some African Member States, the population may not be the most, such as Nigerian Muslim population of the 50% of the total population, the rest is Christian and indigenous religion; many of the old colonial countries such as Togo, Mozambique, Cameroon, a Muslim is not a majority, but Islam is the largest religious group, more than 20%, because the locals believe in various indigenous primitive religion and part of the Christians. Egypt is Africa enters the Islamization of the country, at the earliest from year 639 years Muslims into, 641, the Arab General Amir · ostān · Ibn Muslim armies led by across the Gaza Strip and Egypt, began to penetrate the African Islamic history. 200 years later, the Muslims through various methods, such as trade, missionary and war, not only to Islam spread through North Africa, but also teach them to use standard Arabic, therefore all North Africa since the Islamic countries are part of the Arab world. Today, Islam has spread across Africa, all African countries with Muslim community, but are mainly concentrated in North Africa and West Africa. According to the study of Eastern and Western scholars, such as Malaysia University experts on Africa · Hamid, Hami, Ding, Ph.d., Africa is a pioneer of modern civilization of the Arabs, Africans taken to the advanced Islamic culture, changed their tribal political, economic, cultural, legal and way of life. He said: "from a historical perspective, Islam is not a mere religion Islam to the African continent has introduced an entire civilization in the system and system, and help them overcome the isolated villages and tribalism, communicate and trade. The influence of Islamic culture far exceed the portion of the conversion of Muslims and Islam throughout Africa to change, and enter the era of civilization. Islam in Africa is not a colonial and pillage, but economic, trade and culture. For example, in Mali, where it was once the Centre of Islamic culture and education, and training to African countries a large number of scholars and teachers. Most local Africans conversion to Islam, is influenced by the Islamic way of life, such as Arabic has touched is a unified Africa several indigenous languages of ethnic and cultural knowledge of a common language. " He said that Islam in Africa's most important contribution is to introduce a strict rule of law, and help them organize community, inspiring them to understand God's servants and people's ideas of equality, the achievements of the African people's revolt against Western colonialism and later of imperialist aggression to absoluteness. Maybe that Western countries hate in Africa, this is important in Islam.