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    Islam is the major religion in the Gambia, representing 97% of the 2 million population, with the first Muslim communities in the country arriving in...
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    The Gambia, officially the Republic of the Gambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the smallest country in continental Africa;...
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    The Gambia portal Religion portal Demographics of Gambia Islam in Gambia Christianity in Gambia Serer religion Serer creation myth Religion in Senegal...
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  • Islam, Youth, and Modernity in The Gambia: The Tablighi Jama'at is an ethnographic account examining the Tablighi Jama'at movement within The Gambia. Authored...
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    St Mary's Cathedral. Christianity portal Religion in the Gambia Islam in the Gambia "Gambia, The", The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, 2023-07-25...
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  • Prostitution in the Gambia is widespread but illegal. Most of the estimated 3,100 prostitutes in the Gambia are from Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea...
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    history in the Gambia, the community has been facing resistance and religious intolerance from certain Muslim clerics and Islamic bodies in the country...
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    Banjul (redirect from Banjul, The Gambia)
    /bænˈdʒuːl/, US: /ˈbɑːndʒuːl/), officially the City of Banjul, is the capital of The Gambia. It is the centre of the eponymous administrative division which...
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  • Nunciature to Gambia Religion in Gambia Christianity in Gambia Islam in Gambia Guide of the Catholic missions in 2005, by the Congregation for the evangelizatione...
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    Amadou Bamba (category Islam in the Gambia)
    (around 1853 A.D.) in the village of Mbacké (Mbàkke Bawol in Wolof) in Baol. He was born into a family with an ancient Islamic tradition, which had...
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  • opposition group. After the removal of Jammeh in 2017, his successor Adama Barrow said the Gambia would no longer be an Islamic republic. Application of...
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  • Muslim Congress Party (category Islam in the Gambia)
    The Muslim Congress Party was a political party in the Gambia. The party was founded during the pre-independence period to represent the Muslim population...
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  • The Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC or SIC) is the leading Muslim organization in the West African nation of The Gambia, based in Serekunda. The...
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    Religion in the Gambia Christianity in the Gambia Islam in the Gambia Ahmadiyya in the Gambia Serer religion World Heritage Sites in the Gambia Gambian literature...
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  • The Gambia Radio & Television Service is the national broadcaster of the West African state of the Gambia. Gambia Radio & Television Service currently...
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    The Gambia River (formerly known as the River Gambra, French: Fleuve Gambie, Portuguese: Rio Gâmbia) is a major river in West Africa, running 1,120 kilometres...
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    Jangjangbureh is a town, founded in 1823, on Janjanbureh Island, also known as MacCarthy Island, in the Gambia River in eastern Gambia. Until 1995, it was known...
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  • "For The Gambia Our Homeland" is the national anthem of the Gambia. It is based on the music of a traditional Mandinka song, to which original Mandinka...
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    Islam is the third largest religion in the United States (1%), behind Christianity (63%) and Judaism (2%), and equaling the shares of Buddhism and Hinduism...
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    Ibrahima Fall (category Islam in the Gambia)
    Mbàkke, founder of the Mouride Brotherhood movement in West Africa. Well known in the Mouride Brotherhood, Ibrahima Fall established the influential Baye...
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    identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census. India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. The majority of India's Muslims are...
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    Mouride (category Islam in the Gambia)
    prominent in Senegal and The Gambia with headquarters in the city of Touba, which is a holy city for the order. Adherents are called Mourides, from the Arabic...
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    Wolof people (category Ethnic groups in the Gambia)
    The Wolof people (UK: /ˈwoʊlɒf/) are a West African ethnic group found in northwestern Senegal, the Gambia, and southwestern coastal Mauritania. In Senegal...
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  • The International Open University (IOU) is a private distance education university headquartered in Kanifing, The Gambia. It was founded by Bilal Philips...
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    Islam is the second-largest religion in the United Kingdom, with results from the 2011 Census giving the population as 4.4% of the total UK population...
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  • the Seattle metropolitan area, Minnesota, the Bronx, New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Most Gambians living in the United States practice Islam or...
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  • commercial banks in the Gambia Access Bank Gambia Arab Gambia Islamic Bank Banque Sahélo-Saharienne pour l'Investissement et le Commerce Ecobank Gambia First Bank...
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    adherence to Islam is a shared factor that affects their lives to a varying degree and gives them a common identity that may serve to bridge the wide cultural...
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    Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity. Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from...
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    The Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar), commonly referred to as the Rohingya...
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