Islam is the second largest religion in Malawi behind Christianity. Nearly all of Malawi's Muslims adhere to Sunni Islam. [1] Though difficult to assess, [2] according to the CIA Factbook, in 2018 about 13.8% of the country's population was Muslim. [3] Muslim organisations in the country claim a figure of 15-20%. [4]

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In Malawi, there are over 1 million Muslims; being the second largest religion in the Country after Christianity. According Wikipedia, Many of the Malawi’s Muslims adhere to Sunni Islam . Recently, Muslim groups have engaged in missionary work in Malawi. Much of this is performed by the African Muslim Agency, based in Angola.

Malawi is a majority Christian country, with a significant Muslim minority. Government surveys indicate that 87% of the country is Christian, with a minority 11.6% Muslim population. [2] According to the World Religion Database, Protestants made up the largest group of …

THE ORIGINS AND THE PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF ISLAM IN MALAWI The origins of Islam in Malawi can be traced to four sources, a knowledge of which helps to explain the present distribution of Muslims in the country. Two of these sources spring from attempts by Swahili Arabs from the East African coast to establish petty sultanates on the shores of ...

Islam is the second largest religion in Malawi behind Christianity. Nearly all of Malawi's Muslims adhere to Sunni Islam. Though difficult to assess, according ...

Malawi are Muslims and in each of the main urban centres, Blantyre-Limbe, Zomba and Lilongwe, there are major mosques. Asian Muslims have also made a major contribution to the establishment of Islam in Malawi, providing Islamic instruction and providing money and materials for the building of mosques for Malawian Muslims.

In fact, the first freely elected President of Malawi, Bakili Muluzi, is Muslim. Traditional religions and a belief in spirits are interwoven into Malawian culture, with even the most devout Christians having some lingering traditional superstitions.

Malawi’s Muslim communities trace their earliest beginnings to influences from the coast of East Africa. From pre-Islamic time part of the Indian Ocean trade circuit, the intermingling there of Arab and African has given rise to the Swahili language, culture and civilisation with Islam as the religion of its people. Over the centuries the Swahili

understand when, how and why Islam arrived in Malawi and for what reasons it established itself so successfully among Ayao in the Mangochi area particularly and a small portion of Achewa in Nkhotakota.