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.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bengali Muslims canonical 8

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bengali people ⓘ
Muslim community ⓘ
ethnoreligious community ⓘ
associatedCountry People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form: Bangladesh

India ⓘ
associatedCuisine Bengali Muslim cuisine ⓘ
associatedFestivals Eid al-Adha ⓘ
Eid al-Fitr ⓘ
Mawlid ⓘ
surface form: 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 People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form: Bangladesh
ethnicity Bengali ⓘ
followsLegalSchool Hanafi school ⓘ
surface form: Hanafi Sunni Islam
historicalCenter Chittagong ⓘ
Dhaka ⓘ
Gaur ⓘ
Murshidabad ⓘ
Pandua ⓘ
historicalInfluence Mughal Empire (in much of the territory) ⓘ
surface form: Mughal Empire

Persianate culture ⓘ
Sufism ⓘ
Turko-Afghan rule in Bengal ⓘ
historicalLanguageOfReligion Arabic ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
Urdu language ⓘ
surface form: Urdu
majorDenomination Sunni Islam ⓘ
majorityPopulationIn People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form: Bangladesh
minorDenomination Ahmadiyya ⓘ
Shia Islam ⓘ
nativeTo Bengal ⓘ
surface form: Bengal region

Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta ⓘ
surface form: Ganges-Brahmaputra delta
populationMajorityReligionIn People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form: Bangladesh
primaryLanguage Bengali ⓘ
religion Islam ⓘ
significantMinorityIn Assam ⓘ
India ⓘ
Tripura ⓘ
West Bengal ⓘ
usesScript Arabic script (for religious texts) ⓘ
Bengali script ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) → populationMajority → Bengali Muslims ⓘ
subject surface form: People's Republic of Bangladesh
Lutfunnisa Begum → ethnicGroup → Bengali Muslims ⓘ
Najm-ud-Daulah → ethnicGroup → Bengali Muslims ⓘ
Mubarak Ali Khan → ethnicGroup → Bengali Muslims ⓘ
Morigaon district → hasEthnicGroup → Bengali Muslims ⓘ
Noakhali riots → perpetratorCommunity → Bengali Muslims ⓘ
Mubarak ud-Daulah → ethnicGroup → Bengali Muslims ⓘ
Mansur Ali Khan → ethnicGroup → Bengali Muslims ⓘ