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is the third largest religion in

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, with about 9.7 percent of the total population following the religion. About 1.9 million Sri Lankans adhere to Islam as per the Sri Lanka census of 2012. The majority of Muslims in Sri Lanka are concentrated in the Eastern Province of the island. Other areas containing significant Muslim minorities include the

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, Northwestern, North Central, Central and

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provinces. Muslims form a large segment of the urban population of Sri Lanka and are mostly concentrated in major cities and large towns in Sri Lanka, like

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. Most Sri Lankan Muslims primarily speak

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, though it is not uncommon for Sri Lankan Muslims to be fluent in Sinhalese. The

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speak the Sri Lankan Malay

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in addition to Sinhalese and Tamil. Islam in Sri Lanka traces its origin back to the arrival of

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ern merchants in the

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. By the 16th century, Middle Eastern traders' were the main traders of

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in Sri Lanka, with networks extending to the Middle East. The descendants of these merchants are commonly believed to be the

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History

With the arrival of Arab traders in the 7th century A.D.,

began to flourish in Sri Lanka. The first people to profess the Islamic faith were Arab merchants and their native wives, whom they married after having them converted to Islam. By the 8th century A.D.,

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traders had taken control of much of the trade on the

, including that of Sri Lanka. Many of them settled down on the island in large numbers, encouraging the spread of Islam. However, when the Portuguese arrived during the 16th century, many of these Arab traders' descendants – now called the

– were the main traders in spice, with networks extending to the

. The Portuguese colonists attacked, persecuted, and destroyed the Sri Lankan Moor settlements, warehouses, and trading networks. Many defeated Moors sought refuge from persecution by escaping to the interior of Sri Lanka. The population of Sri Lankan Moors declined significantly during the Portuguese colonial rule due to the

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s against the Moors. The Sinhalese ruler King

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gave refuge to some of the Muslims in the central highlands and

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. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Javanese and

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n Muslims brought over by the

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and

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rulers contributed to the growing Muslim population in Sri Lanka. Their descendants, now the

, adopted several

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Islamic traditions while also contributing their unique cultural Islamic practices to other Muslim groups on the Island. The arrival of Muslims from India during the 19th and 20th centuries has also contributed to the growth of Islam in Sri Lanka. Most notably,

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i and

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n Muslims have introduced

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and the

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school of thought into Sri Lanka. Most Muslims on the island adhere to the traditional practices of

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. Muslims generally follow Sufi traditions. The Fassiya ash Shazuliya tariqa, which has its headquarters in Ummu Zavaya in M.J.M. Laffir mawatha, Colombo, supported by the Al-Fassi family in the 1870s, is the most prevalent Sufi order among the Sri Lankan Muslims followed by Aroosiyathul qadiriya. The Deobandi Tablighi Jamaat, jamathe islame and thawheed jamath etc. also have centers in Colombo. Sunni scholar Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi built Hanafi Masjid in Colombo for Sri Lankan Muslims. In modern times, Muslims in Sri Lanka are handled by the Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs Department, which was established in the 1980s to prevent the continual isolation of the Muslim community from the rest of Sri Lanka. Muslims of Sri Lanka, mostly continue to derive from the Moor and Malay ethnic communities on the island with smaller numbers of converts from other ethnicities, such as the

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. In recent years, Sri Lankan Muslims have become more affected by the growing influence of

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; due to investment from

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, Sri Lankan Sufi Muslims have been wary of increasing

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among Sri Lankan Muslims. The brutal

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revealed that the radical National Thowheeth Jama'ath, a Salafi influenced organization, was behind the bombings, leading to increasing censorship of the Salafi movement in Sri Lanka. In April 2020, the Sri Lankan government made COVID-19 cremations mandatory, saying that burying bodies could contaminate groundwater and spread the disease. Islam prohibits cremation and Muslims make up 10% of the population in Sri Lanka. In late February 2021, after intense objections from human rights groups, including Amnesty International and the United Nations, the Sri Lankan government decided to allow burials to take place for Muslims. They were to be done on Iranathivu island, a remote island in the Gulf of Mannar. It lies 300 km (186 miles) away from the capital, Colombo, and was chosen because of its low population density.

Population

The districts of

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(43%),

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(42%) and

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(26%) in Eastern Province have the highest share of Muslims in Sri Lanka, followed by

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(20%),

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(17%),

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(14%) and

(12%).

Sri Lankan Moors

The

are mostly native speakers of the

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while a few of them speak Sinhala as primary language, and follow

as their religion. Sri Lankan Moors comprise 9.30% (2012 Census) of Sri Lanka's population, and constitute the largest ethnic group within the Muslim community in the country. Islam was spread to

by contacts with the merchant ships operated by the Moor traders between Serendib (Old Persian / Arabic name for Sri Lanka), and various ports in the

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and

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. As per scholars, Sri Lankan Moors are descendant of the Marakkar,

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and Pathans of

Education

There are 749 Muslim schools in Sri Lanka, 205 madrasas which teach Islamic education, and an Islamic university in Beruwala (Jamiya Naleemiya). Al Iman Schools in Colombo was the first organization of Islamic schools of its kind, teaching an integrated Islamic curriculum since 2008. In the early 20th century there were few Muslim professionals in accounting, medicine, engineering, etc., but at present they are exceeding the national average. Due to the lack of opportunity in Sri Lanka, many Muslim professionals are emigrating to get jobs abroad, such as to the

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, and

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. The Moors have had better social and economic mobility, thanks to the historic head start they had in getting education and government jobs under the British colonial rule.

East Coast Moors

In the eastern provinces of the country Muslims are predominant. These Muslims were settled on land given by the Sinhalese King

after the Muslims were persecuted by the Portuguese. East coast Sri Lankan Moors are primarily farmers, fishermen, and traders. According to the controversial census of 2007, the Moors are 5% (only Moors, not the entire Muslim population of the eastern province). Their family lines are traced through women, as in kinship systems of the southwest Indian state of

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, like the

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and some

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, but they govern themselves through

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West Coast Moors

Many moors in the west of the island are traders, professionals or civil servants and are mainly concentrated in

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Beruwala Beruwala ( Sinhala:බේරුවල Tamil: பேருவளை) is a large town in Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council. The town covers a total area of approximately and is located on the south-west ...

Dharga Town Dharga Town (; ) is a town located in Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is governed by the Beruwala Urban Council under the Government of Sri Lanka, and is close to Aluthgama and the tourist town Bentota. Dharga Town received ...

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Matale Matale ( Sinhala: මාතලේ, , , ) is a major city in Central Province, Sri Lanka. It is the administrative capital and largest urbanised city of Matale District. Matale is also the second largest urbanised and populated city in Central P ...

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and

. Moors in the west coast trace their family lines through their father. Along with those in the Central Province, the surname of many Moors in

and

is their father's first name, thus retaining similarity to the traditional

and middle eastern kinship system.

The Malays

The Malays of Sri Lanka originated in

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and today consist of about 50,000 persons. Their ancestors came to the country when both Sri Lanka and

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were colonies of the

. Most of the early Malay immigrants were indentured labours, posted by the Dutch colonial administration to Sri Lanka, who decided to settle on the island. Other immigrants were convicts or members of noble houses from Indonesia who were exiled to Sri Lanka and who never left. The main source of a continuing Malay identity is their common

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''(Bahasa Melayu)'', which includes numerous words absorbed from Sinhalese and the

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variant of the Tamil language. In the 1980s, the Malays made up about 5% of the Muslim population in Sri Lanka and, like the

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, predominantly follow the

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school of thought within

Indian Muslims (Memons, Bohras, Khojas)

The Indian Muslims are those who trace their origins to immigrants searching for business opportunities during the colonial period. Some of these people came to the country as far back as Portuguese times; others arrived during the British period from various parts of India. The majority of them came from

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and

states, and unlike the Sri Lankan Moors, are ethnically related to South Indians and number approximately 30,000. The

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, originally from

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(in modern

), first arrived in 1870; in the 1980s they numbered only about 3,000. They mostly follow the

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school of Islam. The

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and the

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are

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Muslims who came from western India (

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state) after 1880; in the 1980s they collectively numbered fewer than 2,000. These groups tended to retain their own places of worship and the languages of their ancestral homelands.

Notes

References

* Victor C. de Munck. Experiencing History Small: An analysis of political, economic and social change in a Sri Lankan village
History & Mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies
Edited by

Peter Turchin Peter Valentinovich Turchin (; born 22 May 1957) is a Russian-American complexity scientist, specializing in an area of study he and his colleagues developed called cliodynamics—mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics o ...

Leonid Grinin Leonid Efimovich Grinin (; born in 1958) is a Russian philosopher of history, sociologist, political anthropologist, economist, and futurologist. Born in Kamyshin (the Volgograd Region), Grinin attended Volgograd State Pedagogical University, w ...

Andrey Korotayev Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropology, anthropologist, economic history, economic historian, comparative politics, comparative political scientist, demography, demographer and sociology, sociologist ...

, and Victor C. de Munck, pp. 154–169. Moscow: KomKniga, 2006. * Pieris, Kamalika. The Muslims and Sri Lank
The Muslims in Sri Lanka
Mission Islam, 2006. {{Religion in Sri Lanka

History

Population

Sri Lankan Moors

Education

East Coast Moors

West Coast Moors

The Malays

Indian Muslims (Memons, Bohras, Khojas)

See also

Notes

References

References