Religion In Chad
Islam is the most widely professed religion in Chad, with a significant minority adhering to Christianity. Smaller populations of non-religious people as well as adherents of other faiths are also present. Among Chadian Muslims, 95% professed to be Sunni Muslims, 1% Shia, 4% Ahmadi are largely concentrated in northern and eastern Chad, and animists and Christians live primarily in southern Chad and Guéra."Chad",''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Islam was brought in the course of the Muslim conquest of the Sudan region, in the case of Chad complete in the 11th century with the conversion of the Kanem-Bornu Empire. Christianity arrived in Chad with the French, by the end of the 19th century.S. Collelo, ''Chad'' The constitution provides for a secular state and guarantees religious freedom. Demographics Muslims make up between 52-58% of the population; Christians, are roughly even between Catholics and Protestants, constitute about 34-45% of the population. There are small po ...
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Islam
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ''Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the Muhammad in Islam, main and final Islamic prophet.Peters, F. E. 2009. "Allāh." In , edited by J. L. Esposito. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . (See alsoquick reference) "[T]he Muslims' understanding of Allāh is based...on the Qurʿān's public witness. Allāh is Unique, the Creator, Sovereign, and Judge of mankind. It is Allāh who directs the universe through his direct action on nature and who has guided human history through his prophets, Abraham, with whom he made his covenant, Moses/Moosa, Jesus/Eesa, and Muḥammad, through all of whom he founded his chosen communities, the 'Peoples of the Book.'" It is the Major religious groups, world's second-largest religion behind Christianity, w ...
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