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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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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Jun 15, 2023 · Madrid, Spain – A crucial part of Madrid’s Islamic heritage goes on display for the first time towards the end of this month as a new museum opens its doors to the public in the Spanish...
