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Islam in Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Islam is the majority religion in Azerbaijan, but the country is considered to be the most secular in the Muslim world. Various reports have estimated that 97.3% or 99.2% of the population identify as Muslim, with the majority (60-65%) being Shias, 45% for non-denominational Muslims and a significant minority (35-40%) being Sunnis. Traditionally, the differences between these two branches of Islam have not been sharply defined in Azerbaijan, as a major portion of the population are cultural Muslims.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 78-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Islam, Azerbaijan and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Islam in Azerbaijan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.