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The opening as it read in 2015

Hamza Mosque in Wakrah .¹ Qatar is a Muslim-majority country with Islam as the state religion. Wahhabi / Salafi version of Sunni Islam is the state sponsored brand of Islam in the country, making Qatar one of the two officially Wahhabi / Salafi states in the Muslim world , along with Saudi Arabia .² The local population, made up of Qataris, are all Muslims although there are high numbers of foreign workers in Qatar which varies the Muslim population.³ In the CIA World Factbook it says 77.5% are Muslims, with 8.5% Christians and others remain.⁴ Foreign workers are well noted in the country, mainly from South Asia and Americans which constitute most of the population of Qatar.⁵ Islam conquered the entire Arabian region in the 7th century in a string of widespread conflicts resulting in the Islamization of the native Arabian pagans . With the spread of Islam in Qatar, Muhammad sent his first military envoy, Al Ala Al-Hadrami, to Al-Mundhir Ibn Sawa Al-Tamimi, the ruler of Bahrain, which extended from the coast of Kuwait to the south of Qatar, including Al-Hasa and Bahrain, in the year 628, inviting him to accept Islam as he had invited other kingdoms and empires of his time such as Byzantium and Persia. Mundhir, responding to Muhammad, announced his acceptance of Islam, and all the inhabitants of Qatar became Muslim, heralding the beginning of the Islamic era in Qatar.⁶

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The opening as it stood in 2010

Qatar is a Muslim-majority country with Islam as the state religion. The population of Muslims in Qatar of Qataris are all Muslims but, there are high numbers of foreign workers in Qatar which varies the Muslim population. In the CIA World Factbook it says 77.5% are Muslims, with 8.5% Christians and others remain. . Foreign workers are well noted in the country, mainly from South Asia and Americans which constitute most of the population of Qatar.

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The opening as it stood in 2020 5 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

Qatar is a Muslim-majority country with Islam as the state religion. Salafi version of Islam is the state sponsored brand of Islam in the country, making Qatar one of the two Salafi states in the Muslim world , along with Saudi Arabia . The local population, made up of Qataris, are all Muslims although there are high numbers of foreign workers in Qatar which varies the Muslim population. According to the CIA World Factbook , as of 2010 an estimated 67.7% of the population is Muslim, while 13.8% is Christian, another 13.8% Hindu, and 3.1% Buddhist. Foreign workers are well noted in the country, mainly from South Asia which constitute most of the population of Qatar. At the end of 2013, there were a total of 1,848 mosques recorded in the country. Section: People and Society – Religions.

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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023

Religion in Qatar Hamza Mosque in Al Wakrah . Qatar is a Muslim-majority country with Islam as the state religion. Salafi version of Islam is the state sponsored brand of Sunni Islam in the country, making Qatar one of the two Salafi states in the Muslim world , along with Saudi Arabia . The local population, made up of Qataris, are all Muslims although there are high numbers of foreign workers in Qatar which varies the Muslim population. According to the CIA World Factbook , as of 2010 an estimated 67.7% of the population is Muslim, while 13.8% is Christian, another 13.8% Hindu, and 3.1% Buddhist. Foreign workers are well noted in the country, mainly from South Asia which constitute most of the population of Qatar. At the end of 2013, there were a total of 1,848 mosques recorded in the country. Section: People and Society – Religions.

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The opening as it stood in 2025 4 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

Qatar is a Muslim-majority country with Islam as the state religion. Salafi version of Islam is the state sponsored brand of Sunni Islam in the country, making Qatar one of the Salafi states in the Muslim world , along with Saudi Arabia . The local population is mainly Muslim although there are many foreigners live in the country. At the end of 2013, there were a total of 1,848 mosques operating in the country. By 2024, the number was over 2,000. Section: People and Society – Religions. "Qatar's architectural heritage: mosques and traditional houses" . euronews . 2024-02-07 .

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