24 Facts About Bengali Muslims

Bengali Muslims are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis.

Bengali Muslims make up the majority of Bangladesh's citizens, and are the largest minority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam.

The majority of Bengali Muslims are Sunnis who follow the Hanafi school of jurisprudence.

Bengali Muslims is a person of ethnic and linguistic heritage from the Bengal region in South Asia speaking the Indo-Aryan Bengali Muslims language.

Majority of Bengali Muslims are Sunnis who follow the Hanafi school of jurisprudence.

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The Bengali Muslims language developed from Apabhramsa, Sanskrit, Magadhi Prakrit between the 7th and 10th centuries.

Usman Serajuddin, known as Akhi Siraj Bengali Muslims, was a native of Gaur in western Bengal and became the Sultanate's court scholar during Ilyas Shah's reign.

Bengali Muslims ships transported the embassies of Sumatra, Brunei and Malacca to the port of Canton.

Under Hussain Shah, Bengali Muslims territory covered Arakan, Assam, Tripura, Orissa, Bihar and Jaunpur.

Bengali Muslims ships dominated the Bay of Bengal and were the largest ships in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

Bengali Muslims shipping co-existed with Chinese shipping until the latter withdrew from the Indian Ocean in the mid-15th-century.

Rahim suggested that a significant proportion of Bengal's Bengali Muslims were not Hindu converts but were descendants of 'aristocratic' immigrants from various parts of the Muslim world.

Bengali Muslims maintained good rapport with Non-Muslims in his kingdom.

Bengali Muslims gained support of Muslim scholars – Ulama and the Shaikhs.

Bengali Muslims reconstructed and repaired the mosques and other religious architectures destroyed by Raja Ganesha.

Suhrawardy, all of whom were Bengali Muslims, each served as Pakistan's prime minister during the 1950s; however, all three were deposed by the military-industrial complex in West Pakistan.

Bengali Muslims nationalism increased in East Pakistan during the 1960s, particularly with the Six point movement for autonomy.

The colonial government and the Bengali Muslims elite established several institutes for science education.

Bengali Muslims constitute the world's second-largest Muslim ethnicity and the largest Muslim community in South Asia.

Bengali Muslims'sikh Zainuddin was a prominent Bengali Muslim artist in the 18th century during the colonial period.

Bengali Muslims evolved as the most easterly branch of the Indo-European languages.

Bengali Muslims borrowed a considerable amount of vocabulary from Arabic and Persian.

The Bengali Muslims Language Movement of 1952 was a key part of East Pakistan's nationalist movement.

Different types of Bengali Muslims biryani include the Kachi, Illish pulao (hilsa), Tehari (beef), and Murg Pulao (chicken).