Punjabi Muslims

Punjabi Muslims
پنجابی مُسَّلماں
Regions with significant populations
Pakistan	111,303,000 (see below)
India	535,489
United Kingdom	500,000
United States	263,699
Languages
	Ethnic language; Punjabi (various dialects); Sacred language; Classical Arabic; Other languages; Urdu; English;
Religion
	Islam; (Sunni majority, Shia minority)
Related ethnic groups
	Punjabis and other Pakistani Muslims;

Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مُسَّلماں; romanized: Pañjābī Musal'mã) are ethnic Punjabis who are adherents of Islam; they constitute the largest religious subdivision within the Punjabi people with a population of more than 112 million.^[4]^[5] Punjabis are the third-largest predominantly Islam-adhering Muslim ethnicity in the world, globally,^[6] after Arabs^[7] and Bengalis.^[8]

The majority of Punjabi Muslims are adherents of Sunni Islam, while a minority adhere to Shia Islam. Most of them are primarily geographically native to the Pakistani province of Punjab, but a large group of them have ancestry across the Punjab region as a whole.^[4] Punjabi Muslims speak or identify with the Punjabi language (under a Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi) as their mother tongue.

^ "Indian Census 2011". Census Department, Government of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
^ Nadia Mushtaq Abbasi. "The Pakistani Diaspora in Europe and Its Impact on Democracy Building in Pakistan" (PDF). International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ "American Pakistan Foundation Ready To Engage Pakistani Diaspora". Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2020. (US Embassy, Islamabad Report)
^ ^a ^b Gandhi, Rajmohan (2013). Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. New Delhi, India; Urbana, Illinois: Aleph Book Company. p. 1. ISBN 978-93-83064-41-0.
^ "Pakistan Census 2017" (PDF). PBS.
^ Gandhi, Rajmohan (2013). Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. New Delhi, India; Urbana, Illinois: Aleph Book Company. p. 2. ISBN 978-93-83064-41-0.
^ Margaret Kleffner Nydell Understanding Arabs: A Guide For Modern Times, Intercultural Press, 2005, ISBN 1-931930-25-2, page xxiii, 14
^ roughly 152 million Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh and 36.4 million Bengali Muslims in the Republic of India (CIA Factbook 2014 estimates, numbers subject to rapid population growth); about 10 million Bangladeshis in the Middle East, 1 million Bengalis in Pakistan, 5 million British Bangladeshi.

[religion2-1] "Indian Census 2011". Census Department, Government of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.

[idea.int-2] Nadia Mushtaq Abbasi. "The Pakistani Diaspora in Europe and Its Impact on Democracy Building in Pakistan" (PDF). International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2020.

[3] "American Pakistan Foundation Ready To Engage Pakistani Diaspora". Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2020. (US Embassy, Islamabad Report)

[Gandhi_2013_1-4] Gandhi, Rajmohan (2013). Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. New Delhi, India; Urbana, Illinois: Aleph Book Company. p. 1. ISBN 978-93-83064-41-0.

[5] "Pakistan Census 2017" (PDF). PBS.

[6] Gandhi, Rajmohan (2013). Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. New Delhi, India; Urbana, Illinois: Aleph Book Company. p. 2. ISBN 978-93-83064-41-0.

[7] Margaret Kleffner Nydell Understanding Arabs: A Guide For Modern Times, Intercultural Press, 2005, ISBN 1-931930-25-2, page xxiii, 14

[8] roughly 152 million Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh and 36.4 million Bengali Muslims in the Republic of India (CIA Factbook 2014 estimates, numbers subject to rapid population growth); about 10 million Bangladeshis in the Middle East, 1 million Bengalis in Pakistan, 5 million British Bangladeshi.

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