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In 2024 according to the Islamic Commission of Spain, there are 2.5 million Muslims in Spain, which is about 5.32 percent of the population of 47 million Spaniards. The number of converts, as per the commission, has increased to an estimated 10 times in the past three decades.
May 24, 2024 · At the end of 2023, there were approximately 2.41 million Muslims in Spain, most of them of Spanish and Moroccan nationality, with upwards of eight hundred thousand believers in both...
Jul 21, 2017 · Today, Spain is a largely Catholic nation, and not a place widely associated with Islam. Just 2.1% of Spain’s 46 million population are Muslim according to 2010 Pew Research Center figures...
Mar 6, 2018 · In that last decade of Muslim rule in Spain from 1482-92, sultan Boabdil – a raw youth of 20 who had barely left the confines of the Alhambra palace and had no experience of the world...
Nov 3, 2022 · - Spain: In the country’s churches and streets, the remnants of eight centuries of Islamic rule are hiding in plain sight. - Singapore: Cuisine is one of the few ways to define Peranakan culture,...
Aug 30, 2022 · Arab influence in Spain dates to the early 700s, not long after the founding of Islam, when Muslims from North Africa crossed the Strait of Gibraltar (from the Arabic for “Tariq’s rock”). The...
Aug 15, 2007 · The converts are not a large group - between 20,000 and 50,000 of the estimated 1.5 million Muslims in Spain - and they no longer form a single community. In the 1970s, as Franco was dying, Scottish convert Ian Dallas - renaming himself Sheikh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi - introduced Islam to contemporary Spain.
