Islam in Tunisia

Tunis Zitouna Great Mosque

Islam is the official state religion in Tunisia. According to the United States CIA, 99.1% of its adherents are Sunni Muslims.[1][2] The constitution of Tunisia states that the country's “religion is Islam”, the government is the “guardian of religion”, and requires that the president be Muslim.[1] The predominant madhhab in the country is the Maliki school.[3] The Tunisian island of Djerba is home to a population of Ibadi Muslims.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b "TUNISIA – INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT" (PDF). International Religious Freedom Report for 2014 United States Department of State. 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  2. ^ United States State Department's 2004 Religious Freedom Report
  3. ^ Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, ed. (August 2002). Islamic Family Law in A Changing World: A Global Resource Book. Zed. p. 182. ISBN 9781842770931. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  4. ^ Halverson, Jeffry R.; Greenberg, Nathaniel (2017-10-05). Islamists of the Maghreb. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-60510-6.
  5. ^ Meijer, Roel; Sater, James N.; Babar, Zahra R. (2020-11-23). Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-60880-3.

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