Talk:Muslims

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Muslims article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help. Assume good faith Be polite and avoid personal attacks Be welcoming to newcomers Seek dispute resolution if needed Article policies Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: Index, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8Auto-archiving period: 365 days

This page is not a forum for general discussion about Muslims. Any such comments may be removed or refactored. Please limit discussion to improvement of this article. You may wish to ask factual questions about Muslims at the Reference desk.

This  level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Islam Top‑importance Islam portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Islam, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Islam-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. Religion High‑importance Religion portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Religion, a project to improve Wikipedia's articles on Religion-related subjects. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article was reviewed by The Independent on February 12, 2006. For more information about external reviews of Wikipedia articles and about this review in particular, see this page.

Archives

Index 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

This page has archives. Sections older than 365 days may be automatically archived by ClueBot III when more than 4 sections are present.

Reliability of Morocco World News and The Munsif Daily

As of 2020, it has 1.9 billion adherents, or 24.9% of the global population. According to data from the Pew Research Center, the global Muslim population was estimated to be around 1.8 billion in 2015, and it's projected to reach 2.2 billion by 2030. Some sources indicating that the number reached 2 billion but not reliables, unless someone shares reliable sources. Morocco World News The Munsif Daily, based their data and claims on "the Global Muslim Population website".

Global Muslim population website, is the website that these sources based their claims on it, and this website is not a reliable source.Durziil89 (talk) 05:44, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Infobox image

Recently, I changed the image in the infobox for this article, which was later reverted by @StasiaNote. I did this because the image shown in the infobox is the following painting:

Prayer in Cairo by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1865

The reason I decided to remove this painting as the depiction for Muslims is primarily because of the artist himself, Jean-Léon Gérôme. Gérôme is infamously known for his participation in Orientalism, even the lead image on that article shows a painting by Gérôme. His article also discusses his Orientalist legacy. By using this image (and only this depiction of Muslims is used in the entire article), Wikipedia risks associating itself with Orientalism, which would violate NPOV.

I certainly recommend replacing the Gérôme painting with a less controversial image. When I removed the painting, I replaced it with the following photograph. I thought it would be the most helpful as:

1. Every person depicted in the image is certainly a Muslim.
2. The location is an area important to the religion of Islam.
3. A diverse group of people are represented in the photo.
4. The people are participating an Islamic ritual.

A crowd of Muslim pilgrims at the Kaaba, Mecca, 2016

If, for whatever reason, this image is also controversial, then I suggest the usage of one of the images in the below gallery.

• 
  Muslim men praying in Indonesia
• 
  Muslim women in Iran during Qadr night.
• 
  Muslim prayer in Damascus
• 
  Eid al-fitr prayer in Zahedan
• 
  Jiangwan Mosque, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China

―Howard • 🌽³³ 19:14, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Unlisted populations

Why are none of the other countries listed like khazakistan etc? You can even see the percentages for the country itself on its wiki... 173.80.7.142 (talk) 01:30, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 July 2024

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Please list Hindustani language before Bengali language in infobox as it has more than double the total Muslim speakers l1 and l2 combined. Hindustani (includes both registers Urdu and Hindi) is spoken by Muslims of India (specially in North India and every major city of India) and Pakistan. Whereas Bengali is limited to Bengal region. 2404:3100:1453:85AF:1:0:D5A9:E9BD (talk) 07:54, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Left guide (talk) 11:18, 18 July 2024 (UTC)