Back الدين في موريتانيا Arabic Religión en Mauritania Spanish Religion en Mauritanie French Religioni in Mauritania Italian Религија во Мавританија Macedonian Agama di Mauritania Malay Религия в Мавритании Russian Feja në Mauritani Albanian
The people of Mauritania are overwhelmingly adherents of Sunni Islam, of the Maliki school of jurisprudence.
Mauritania is a country in Africa, bordering Algeria, Mali, Senegal, and the Western Sahara (currently controlled by Morocco).[1] According to the CIA 100% of Mauritanian citizens are Muslim,[2] although there is a small community of Christians, essentially of foreign nationality.[3]
In 2004, the two largest Sufi Muslim tariqas in Mauritania were Tijaniyyah and Qadiriyya.[4] There was no record of Sufis in the country in 2022.[5]
On 7 April 2025, a mob protested against the existence of Mauritanian Christians in Sélibaby. They also desecrated the grave of a Mauritanian convert from Islam to Christianity, and exhumed his body.[6]
- Sunni Islam (100%)
- ^ Thomas M. Leonard (2006). Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1003–1004. ISBN 978-0-415-97662-6. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Mauritania". CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ Britannica, Retrieved 2023-04-25
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- ^ Middle East Concern website, retrieved 2025-04-011
- ^ World Religions Database at the ARDA website, retrieved on 2023-08-08
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