Isman in Bangladesh

• 발행기관: 한국이슬람학회
• 저자명: A K Md Fazlur Rahman
• 간행물 정보: 『한국이슬람학회논총』제4권 1호, 9~18쪽, 전체 10쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 종교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1994.06.30

영문 초록

Numerically Bangladesh is the second largest Muslim country of the world. It has a land area of 148, 393 square kilometers and a population approximately 112 million. The Muslims form over 86% of the total people. The Hindues over 12%, the Buddhists, over 0.6%, the Christians, over 0.4%. The people of all faiths profess and practice their respective religions with complete freedom, mutual harmony and good understanding. Except for the Buddhists(about 1.2 million) who mostly live in the Chittagong Hill Tract bordering India and Myanmar. The people of the other faiths are spread all the over country. Bangladesh makes a homogeneous nation with Bengali as its principal language. The tribal people of Chittagong Hill Tract and other areas have their own dialects but they are not used in writing. Islam made its entry into Bangladesh with the coming of the Arabs since the 8th century. Hinduism and Buddhism were the predominant religions in Bangladesh but they lost grounds to Islam within a surprisingly short time. It look 100-200 years for Islam to become the dominant religion in Bangladesh. The naturalness, simplicity, freedom, fraternity and democratic values of Islam attracted the people of this area to embrace Islam. A brief account of the history of the foundation of the Muslim society in Bangladesh, the Impact of the Muslim rule, the socio-cultural, politico-economic and educational life of the Muslims in Bangladesh, the state policy and the Government's role towards Islam is given in this apticle. The history of Islam and the Muslims in Bangladesh has four distinct 'phases namely. The period of the early Muslim contact, the Delhi Sultanate, the independent Muslim Sultanate and the Mughal rule. The first period extends from the 8th century to the 12th century. During this period the Arab sailors, merchants, geographers, historians, visited the coastal areas of Bangladesh in the course of their voyages to the East. Many of them turned as teachers and preachers of Islam among the local people. They got settled down and married with local women. The earliest reference to the peaceful Arab contact with the coastal area of Bangladesh occurs in 'Silsilat-al-Tawarikh' written by the Arab geographers like Ibne Khurdadbih, Musudi, Tabari, Idrisi, wrote about the wealth and power of the ruling Pala Kings and the prosperity of the country. The Arab sailors carried merchandise from Bangladesh to the ports of China in the East and to the countries of the west. Many families in Chittagong still claim descent from the Arab stock and maintain their family genealogical table. It is worth while to note that the most orthodox Muslim population are found in the areas of early Muslim contact in Bangladesh and they form the hard core of the Muslim society in Bangladesh now. The period of Delhi Sultanate extends from 1204 A.D. to 1338 A.D. The Musli, Sutanate of Delhi was established with the conquest of Delhi by Qutbuddin Aibek. The Turkish commander of Sultan Muizuddin Muhammad Al-Ghori, the ruler of Ghazni and Afghanistan. Aibek became the first Muslim Sultan of Delhi after the death of Sultan Muizuddin Muhammad Al-Ghori. One of his subordinate Turkish mitilary officers by the name of Ikhtyar uddin Muhammud Bakhtyar Khalji conquered Western Bengal and the northern parts of Bengal in 1204 with the help of his Turkish troops and followers. Bakhtyar and his other Turkish successors ruled the new conquered territories almost independently with little control from Delhi. They took 40 to 60 years to conquer other parts of West Bengal and Bangladesh and consolidate them. Some of the strong Delhi Sultans forced the recalcitrant Turkish Governors of Bengal to accept their overlordship. But with the disintegration of the Turkish empire, Bengal became completely independent of Delhi. The independent Sultanate of Bangladesh Iasted for 200 years. The first independent Sultanate of Bengal was established in the eastern Bengal in 1338 by one of the

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Abstract

1. Impact of the Muslim Rule

2. Socio-Cultural Politico - Economic and Educational life

3. State Policy

4. Role of the Government

5. Bibliography