Islam in Uganda

The presence of Islam in Uganda was first recorded in 1844 when an Arab trader preached to Suuna II, the ruler of the Kingdom of Buganda in central Uganda. Islam was also spread throughout Uganda by Muslim colonial administrators who originally worked in northern Uganda when it was controlled by the Khedivate of Egypt but were later employed by British colonial administrator Frederick Lugard when Egyptian control collapsed in the south.{{Sfn|Kasozi|1985|p=36}} Despite persecution by the British, Islam flourished in the colonial period and was said to be fastest growing religion in Uganda by a colonial officer in the 1950s. Mosques were built in almost every established city in Uganda and the Uganda Muslim Education Association, founded by prince Badru Kakungulu with help by Asian Muslims, built hundreds of primary schools through introducing western educational curriculum into madrasah schools across the country.{{Sfn|Kasozi|1985|p=36-37}}

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The 2002 national census recorded that Muslims represented 12.1 percent of the population.{{cite web |title=2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census - Main Report |url=http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/pdf%20documents/2002%20Census%20Final%20Reportdoc.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012091154/http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/pdf%20documents/2002%20Census%20Final%20Reportdoc.pdf |archive-date=12 October 2017 |access-date=19 January 2017 |publisher=Uganda Bureau of Statistics |format=PDF}}{{rp|11}}

Yumbe District is the only district with a Muslim-majority (76%). Muslims form a significant minority in the districts of Mayuge (36%) and Iganga (34%).

• Religion in Uganda
• Islam in Africa
• Islam by country

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• {{cite journal |last1=Kasozi |first1=Abdu B.K. |title=The Uganda Muslim supreme council: an experiment in Muslim administrative centralisation and institutionalisation, 1972–82 |journal=Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs Journal |date=January 1985 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=34–52 |doi=10.1080/13602008508715923}}

• {{Cite book |last=Kasule |first=Joseph |title=Islam in Uganda: The Muslim Minority, Nationalism & Political Power |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |year=2022 |isbn=9781847012432}}

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• [http://islamicweb.com/begin/population.htm Muslim population estimates on islamicweb.com]
• [http://www.islamicpopulation.com/africa_islam.html Muslim population estimates on Islamicpopulation.com]

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