Bengali Muslims

E84460

Bengali people Muslim community ethnoreligious community

Bengali Muslims are an ethnoreligious community of Bengali-speaking Muslims who form the dominant population group in Bangladesh and a significant minority in the Indian state of West Bengal and surrounding regions.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Bengali people → Muslim community → ethnoreligious community →
associatedCountry	Bangladesh → India →
associatedCuisine	Bengali Muslim cuisine →
associatedFestivals	Eid al-Adha → Eid al-Fitr → Milad-un-Nabi → Muharram →
associatedRegion	Eastern South Asia → South Asia →
contributedTo	Bengali cuisine → Bengali literature → Bengali music → Islamic scholarship in South Asia →
demographicFeature	largest ethnic group in Bangladesh → one of the world’s largest Muslim ethnic communities →
dominantPopulationGroupOf	Bangladesh →
ethnicity	Bengali →
followsLegalSchool	Hanafi Sunni Islam →
historicalCenter	Chittagong → Dhaka → Gaur → Murshidabad → Pandua →
historicalInfluence	Mughal Empire → Persianate culture → Sufism → Turko-Afghan rule in Bengal →
historicalLanguageOfReligion	Arabic → Persian → Urdu →
majorDenomination	Sunni Islam →
majorityPopulationIn	Bangladesh →
minorDenomination	Ahmadiyya → Shia Islam →
nativeTo	Bengal region → Ganges-Brahmaputra delta →
populationMajorityReligionIn	Bangladesh →
primaryLanguage	Bengali →
religion	Islam →
significantMinorityIn	Assam → India → Tripura NERFINISHED → West Bengal NERFINISHED →
usesScript	Arabic script (for religious texts) → Bengali script →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lutfunnisa Begum →	ethnicGroup
People's Republic of Bangladesh →	populationMajority