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Sunni Islam is a major religion in Palestine, being the religion of the majority of the Palestinian population. Muslims comprise 85% of the population of the West Bank, when including Israeli settlers, [1] and 99% of the population of the Gaza Strip. [2] .
While Palestinian culture is today primarily Arab and Islamic, many Palestinians identify themselves with earlier civilizations that inhabited the land of Palestine, including Natufians and Canaanites.
And increasingly, many are using it to learn about Islam after witnessing the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, giving rise to a movement around exploration of the religion.
Dr. Shabir Ally addresses a viewer's question about why Allah appears indifferent to the suffering of Palestinians. He explains that Allah is fully aware of all situations and allows hardships as part of a complex plan that can sometime be beyond human understanding.
The substantial majority of Palestinians in Palestine (98 percent) are Muslim. In addition, there is a small Christian community. Palestinian Muslims are Sunni Muslims, adherents to the main branch within Islam.
Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque is the third-holiest site in Islam, drawing tens of thousands of pilgrims from across Palestine and the wider Muslim world each year. The mosque also serves as a...
Less than a decade after the death of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in 632, his followers governed Palestinian Christians, and as a result Arabic rather than Greek has been the first language of most...
