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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%99%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE" title="শ্রীলঙ্কায় ইসলাম – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="শ্রীলঙ্কায় ইসলাম" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%80%D0%B8-%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Шри-Ланкала ислам – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Шри-Ланкала ислам" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a 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href="/wiki/File:SL_Colombo_asv2020-01_img22_Jami_Ul-Alfar_Mosque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/SL_Colombo_asv2020-01_img22_Jami_Ul-Alfar_Mosque.jpg/180px-SL_Colombo_asv2020-01_img22_Jami_Ul-Alfar_Mosque.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/SL_Colombo_asv2020-01_img22_Jami_Ul-Alfar_Mosque.jpg/270px-SL_Colombo_asv2020-01_img22_Jami_Ul-Alfar_Mosque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/SL_Colombo_asv2020-01_img22_Jami_Ul-Alfar_Mosque.jpg/360px-SL_Colombo_asv2020-01_img22_Jami_Ul-Alfar_Mosque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5055" data-file-height="5055" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Jami_Ul-Alfar_Mosque" title="Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque">Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pettah,_Sri_Lanka" title="Pettah, Sri Lanka">Pettah</a> area is one of the oldest mosques in <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a><sup id="cite_ref-lankapradeepa.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lankapradeepa.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Religion in Sri Lanka">third largest religion</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>, with about 9.7 percent of the total population following the religion.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> About 1.9 million Sri Lankans adhere to Islam as per the Sri Lanka census of 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-eth2012_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eth2012-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The majority of Muslims in Sri Lanka are concentrated in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern Province</a> of the island. Other areas containing significant Muslim minorities include the <a href="/wiki/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Western Province, Sri Lanka">Western</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">Northwestern</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Central Province, Sri Lanka">North Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Central Province, Sri Lanka">Central</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sabaragamuwa_Province" title="Sabaragamuwa Province">Sabaragamuwa</a> provinces. Muslims form a large segment of the urban population of Sri Lanka and are mostly concentrated in major cities and large towns in Sri Lanka, like <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most Sri Lankan Muslims primarily speak <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>, though it is not uncommon for Sri Lankan Muslims to be fluent in <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinhalese language">Sinhalese</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Malays" title="Sri Lankan Malays">Sri Lankan Malays</a> speak the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Malay_language" title="Sri Lanka Malay language">Sri Lankan Malay</a> <a href="/wiki/Creole_language" title="Creole language">creole language</a> in addition to Sinhalese and Tamil. </p><p>Islam in Sri Lanka traces its origin back to the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle Eastern</a> merchants in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a>. By the 16th century, Middle Eastern traders' were the main traders of <a href="/wiki/Spice" title="Spice">spice</a> in Sri Lanka, with networks extending to the Middle East. The descendants of these merchants are commonly believed to be the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors" title="Sri Lankan Moors">Sri Lankan Moors</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the arrival of Arab traders in the 7th century A.D., <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> began to flourish in Sri Lanka. The first people to profess the Islamic faith were Arab merchants and their native wives, whom they married after having them converted to Islam. By the 8th century A.D., <a href="/wiki/Arab_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab people">Arab</a> traders had taken control of much of the trade on the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a>, including that of Sri Lanka. Many of them settled down on the island in large numbers, encouraging the spread of Islam. However, when the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_people" title="Portuguese people">Portuguese</a> arrived during the 16th century, many of these Arab traders' descendants – now called the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors" title="Sri Lankan Moors">Sri Lankan Moors</a> – were the main traders in spice, with networks extending to the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Ceylon" title="Portuguese Ceylon">Portuguese colonists</a> attacked, persecuted, and destroyed the Sri Lankan Moor settlements, warehouses, and trading networks. Many defeated Moors sought refuge from persecution by escaping to the interior of Sri Lanka. The population of Sri Lankan Moors declined significantly during the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Ceylon" title="Portuguese Ceylon">Portuguese colonial rule</a> due to the <a href="/wiki/Pogrom" title="Pogrom">pogroms</a> against the Moors. The Sinhalese ruler King <a href="/wiki/Senarat_of_Kandy" title="Senarat of Kandy">Senarat of Kandy</a> gave refuge to some of the Muslims in the central highlands and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern Province, Sri Lanka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lankasrinews.com_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lankasrinews.com-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 18th and 19th centuries, <a href="/wiki/Javanese_people" title="Javanese people">Javanese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysian</a> Muslims brought over by the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Dutch</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> rulers contributed to the growing Muslim population in Sri Lanka. Their descendants, now the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Malays" title="Sri Lankan Malays">Sri Lankan Malays</a>, adopted several <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moor" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Moor">Sri Lankan Moor</a> Islamic traditions while also contributing their unique cultural Islamic practices to other Muslim groups on the Island. </p><p>The arrival of Muslims from India during the 19th and 20th centuries has also contributed to the growth of Islam in Sri Lanka. Most notably, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistani</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South Indian</a> Muslims have introduced <a href="/wiki/Shafi%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi'i">Shafi'i</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> school of thought into Sri Lanka.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Most Muslims on the island adhere to the traditional practices of <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Muslims generally follow Sufi traditions. The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Fassi_family&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al-Fassi family (page does not exist)">Fassiya</a> ash <a href="/wiki/Shadhili" title="Shadhili">Shazuliya</a> tariqa, which has its headquarters in Ummu Zavaya in M.J.M. Laffir mawatha, Colombo, supported by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Fassi_family&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al-Fassi family (page does not exist)">Al-Fassi family</a> in the 1870s, is the most prevalent Sufi order among the Sri Lankan Muslims followed by Aroosiyathul qadiriya. The Deobandi Tablighi Jamaat, jamathe islame and thawheed jamath etc. also have centers in Colombo.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sunni scholar <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Abdul_Aleem_Siddiqi" title="Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi">Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi</a> built Hanafi Masjid in Colombo for Sri Lankan Muslims.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In modern times, Muslims in Sri Lanka are handled by the Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs Department, which was established in the 1980s to prevent the continual isolation of the Muslim community from the rest of Sri Lanka. Muslims of Sri Lanka, mostly continue to derive from the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors" title="Sri Lankan Moors">Moor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Malays" title="Sri Lankan Malays">Malay</a> ethnic communities on the island with smaller numbers of converts from other ethnicities, such as the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Tamil people">Tamils</a>. </p><p>In recent years, Sri Lankan Muslims have become more affected by the growing influence of <a href="/wiki/Salafi_movement" title="Salafi movement">Salafism</a>; due to investment from <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, Sri Lankan Sufi Muslims have been wary of increasing <a href="/wiki/Wahhabism" title="Wahhabism">Wahhabism</a> among Sri Lankan Muslims.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The brutal <a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings" title="2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings">2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings</a> revealed that the radical <a href="/wiki/National_Thowheeth_Jama%27ath" title="National Thowheeth Jama'ath">National Thowheeth Jama'ath</a>, a Salafi influenced organization, was behind the bombings, leading to increasing censorship of the Salafi movement in Sri Lanka.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2020, the Sri Lankan government made COVID-19 cremations mandatory, saying that burying bodies could contaminate groundwater and spread the disease. Islam prohibits cremation and Muslims make up 10% of the population in Sri Lanka.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late February 2021, after intense objections from human rights groups, including Amnesty International and the United Nations, the Sri Lankan government decided to allow burials to take place for Muslims. They were to be done on <a href="/wiki/Iranaitivu" title="Iranaitivu">Iranathivu island</a>, a remote island in the Gulf of Mannar. It lies 300 km (186 miles) away from the capital, Colombo, and was chosen because of its low population density.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Islam_in_Sri_Lanka_2012.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Islam_in_Sri_Lanka_2012.svg/220px-Islam_in_Sri_Lanka_2012.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Islam_in_Sri_Lanka_2012.svg/330px-Islam_in_Sri_Lanka_2012.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Islam_in_Sri_Lanka_2012.svg/440px-Islam_in_Sri_Lanka_2012.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="714" data-file-height="760" /></a><figcaption>Islam in Sri Lanka 2012 Census</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Census</th> <th>Population</th> <th>Percentage </th></tr> <tr> <td>1881</td> <td>197,800</td> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238854847">.mw-parser-output .percentage-bar{position:relative;border:1px solid #aaa;background-color:#fff;width:100px;max-width:100%;height:1.5em}.mw-parser-output .percentage-bar-fill{position:absolute;background-color:#dbdbdb;height:1.5em;width:50%}.mw-parser-output .percentage-bar-text{position:absolute;width:100%;height:1.5em;text-align:center;color:#000}</style><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 7%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">7.17%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1891</td> <td>212,000</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 7%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">7.05%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1901</td> <td>246,100</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.90%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1911</td> <td>283,600</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.91%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1921</td> <td>302,500</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.72%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1931 Estimate</td> <td>354,200</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.67%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1946</td> <td>436,600</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.56%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1953</td> <td>541,500</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.69%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1963</td> <td>724,000</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 6%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">6.84%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1971</td> <td>901,785</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 7%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">7.11%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1981</td> <td>1,121,717</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 7%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">7.56%</div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012</td> <td>1,967,523</td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238854847"><div class="percentage-bar" style=""><div class="percentage-bar-fill" style="width: 9%;"></div><div class="percentage-bar-text" style="">9.66%</div></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>The districts of <a href="/wiki/Ampara_District" title="Ampara District">Ampara</a> (43%), <a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_District" title="Trincomalee District">Trincomalee</a> (42%) and <a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_District" title="Batticaloa District">Batticaloa</a> (26%) in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern Province</a> have the highest share of Muslims in Sri Lanka, followed by <a href="/wiki/Puttalam_District" title="Puttalam District">Puttalam</a> (20%), <a href="/wiki/Mannar_District" title="Mannar District">Mannar</a> (17%), <a href="/wiki/Kandy_District" title="Kandy District">Kandy</a> (14%) and <a href="/wiki/Colombo_District" title="Colombo District">Colombo</a> (12%). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sri_Lankan_Moors">Sri Lankan Moors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sri Lankan Moors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lanka_moors.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Lanka_moors.jpg/250px-Lanka_moors.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Lanka_moors.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="375" /></a><figcaption>Typical early 20th century Moor gentlemen</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors" title="Sri Lankan Moors">Sri Lankan Moors</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors" title="Sri Lankan Moors">Sri Lankan Moors</a> are mostly native speakers of the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil language</a> while a few of them speak Sinhala as primary language, and follow <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> as their religion. Sri Lankan Moors comprise 9.30% (2012 Census) of Sri Lanka's population, and constitute the largest ethnic group within the Muslim community in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Islam was spread to <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> by contacts with the merchant ships operated by the Moor traders between Serendib (Old Persian / Arabic name for Sri Lanka), and various ports in the <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a>. As per scholars, Sri Lankan Moors are descendant of the <a href="/wiki/Marakkar" title="Marakkar">Marakkar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mappila" class="mw-redirect" title="Mappila">Mappilas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Memon_people" title="Memon people">Memons</a> and Pathans of <a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are 749 Muslim schools in Sri Lanka, 205 madrasas which teach Islamic education, and an Islamic university in Beruwala (Jamiya Naleemiya). Al Iman Schools in Colombo was the first organization of Islamic schools of its kind, teaching an integrated Islamic curriculum since 2008. In the early 20th century there were few Muslim professionals in accounting, medicine, engineering, etc., but at present they are exceeding the national average. Due to the lack of opportunity in Sri Lanka, many Muslim professionals are emigrating to get jobs abroad, such as to the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. The Moors have had better social and economic mobility, thanks to the historic head start they had in getting education and government jobs under the British colonial rule.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcnews_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcnews-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="East_Coast_Moors">East Coast Moors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: East Coast Moors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the eastern provinces of the country Muslims are predominant. These Muslims were settled on land given by the Sinhalese King <a href="/wiki/Senarat_of_Kandy" title="Senarat of Kandy">Senarat of Kandy</a> after the Muslims were persecuted by the <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lankasrinews.com_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lankasrinews.com-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> East coast Sri Lankan Moors are primarily farmers, fishermen, and traders. According to the controversial census of 2007, the Moors are 5% (only Moors, not the entire Muslim population of the eastern province).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Their family lines are traced through women, as in kinship systems of the southwest Indian state of <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a>, like the <a href="/wiki/Nairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Nairs">Nairs</a> and some <a href="/wiki/Mappilas" class="mw-redirect" title="Mappilas">Mappilas</a>, but they govern themselves through <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Islamic law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_Coast_Moors">West Coast Moors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: West Coast Moors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many moors in the west of the island are traders, professionals or civil servants and are mainly concentrated in <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalutara" title="Kalutara">Kalutara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beruwala" title="Beruwala">Beruwala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dharga_Town" title="Dharga Town">Dharga Town</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puttalam" title="Puttalam">Puttalam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jaffna" title="Jaffna">Jaffna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kandy" title="Kandy">Kandy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matale" title="Matale">Matale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vavuniya" title="Vavuniya">Vavuniya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mannar,_Sri_Lanka" title="Mannar, Sri Lanka">Mannar</a>. Moors in the west coast trace their family lines through their father. Along with those in the Central Province, the surname of many Moors in <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalutara" title="Kalutara">Kalutara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Puttalam" title="Puttalam">Puttalam</a> is their father's first name, thus retaining similarity to the traditional <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> and middle eastern kinship system. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Malays">The Malays</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Malays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Malays" title="Sri Lankan Malays">Sri Lankan Malays</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sri_Lankan_Malay_Father_and_Son.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Sri_Lankan_Malay_Father_and_Son.jpg/200px-Sri_Lankan_Malay_Father_and_Son.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Sri_Lankan_Malay_Father_and_Son.jpg/300px-Sri_Lankan_Malay_Father_and_Son.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Sri_Lankan_Malay_Father_and_Son.jpg 2x" data-file-width="347" data-file-height="504" /></a><figcaption>Sri Lankan Malay Father and Son, 19th century</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SL_Galle_Fort_asv2020-01_img21.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SL_Galle_Fort_asv2020-01_img21.jpg/250px-SL_Galle_Fort_asv2020-01_img21.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SL_Galle_Fort_asv2020-01_img21.jpg/375px-SL_Galle_Fort_asv2020-01_img21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SL_Galle_Fort_asv2020-01_img21.jpg/500px-SL_Galle_Fort_asv2020-01_img21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6496" data-file-height="4060" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">Mosque</a> in <a href="/wiki/Galle" title="Galle">Galle</a>, Sri Lanka </figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Malays" title="Sri Lankan Malays">Malays of Sri Lanka</a> originated in <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a> and today consist of about 50,000 persons.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Their ancestors came to the country when both Sri Lanka and <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> were colonies of the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Dutch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the early Malay immigrants were indentured labours, posted by the Dutch colonial administration to Sri Lanka, who decided to settle on the island.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other immigrants were convicts or members of noble houses from Indonesia who were exiled to Sri Lanka and who never left.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The main source of a continuing Malay identity is their common <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Malay" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lanka Malay">Malay language</a> <i>(Bahasa Melayu)</i>, which includes numerous words absorbed from <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinhalese language">Sinhalese</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors" title="Sri Lankan Moors">Moorish</a> variant of the Tamil language.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1980s, the Malays made up about 5% of the Muslim population in Sri Lanka<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, like the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Moors" title="Sri Lankan Moors">Moors</a>, predominantly follow the <a href="/wiki/Shafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafi">Shafi</a> school of thought within <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Indian_Muslims_(Memons,_Bohras,_Khojas)"><span id="Indian_Muslims_.28Memons.2C_Bohras.2C_Khojas.29"></span>Indian Muslims (Memons, Bohras, Khojas)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Indian Muslims (Memons, Bohras, Khojas)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohra" title="Dawoodi Bohra">Dawoodi Bohra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Memons_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Memons in Sri Lanka">Memons in Sri Lanka</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pathans_of_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Pathans of Sri Lanka">Pathans of Sri Lanka</a></div> <p>The Indian Muslims are those who trace their origins to immigrants searching for business opportunities during the colonial period.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of these people came to the country as far back as Portuguese times; others arrived during the British period from various parts of India.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The majority of them came from <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a> states, and unlike the Sri Lankan Moors, are ethnically related to South Indians and number approximately 30,000.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The <a href="/wiki/Memon_people" title="Memon people">Memon</a>, originally from <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a> (in modern <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>), first arrived in 1870; in the 1980s they numbered only about 3,000.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They mostly follow the <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi</a> <a href="/wiki/Sunni" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunni">Sunni</a> school of Islam.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohras" class="mw-redirect" title="Dawoodi Bohras">Dawoodi Bohras</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Khoja" title="Khoja">Khoja</a> are <a href="/wiki/Shi%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Shi'a">Shi'a</a> Muslims who came from western India (<a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a> state) after 1880; in the 1980s they collectively numbered fewer than 2,000.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These groups tended to retain their own places of worship and the languages of their ancestral homelands.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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