Currently the number of Muslims in Portugal is estimated to reach 30,000 people from various ethnic originating from several countries, especially the former Portuguese colonies. The Muslims in Portugal are divided into several groups, among them the barbarian Muslims of Mozambique, Africa, the Muslims from Macao, from the island of Goa in India, from the eastern part of Indonesia, from the descendants of the Indian Muslims whose ancestors worked in the country - former Portuguese colonies such as Mozambique and others, Muslims from Kenya, former Portuguese colonies, Muslims who came from Arab countries, such as Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and others, and the native Muslims of Portugal who recently converted to Islam, but They are very few.
In 1968 it was officially established for the first time a Portuguese Islamic institution in Lisbon with the name al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyyah lilisybunah. This institution hired an apatermen which they became as secretariat of the institution as well as a place to perform prayer worship. But after the number of Muslims who came from the colonies to Portugal increasingly increasing and the number of demands, then in 1977 the state ............ finally gave a plot of land for the Muslims to build mosques and Islamic center in Lisbon And in 1985 has Standing regulatory body from several embassies of Islamic countries to Portugal under the control of the Moroccan embassy. Now in Portugal there have been two mosques and 17 mushalls mostly located in Lisbon and four mushalla in the central Portuguese city of Coimbra, the northern part of Condado, Evoradi in the south and in Porto the oldest city in Portugal.
In Lisbon there is a school of Dar al-Ulum al-Islamiyyah, and in some mosques and mushalls there have been halaqah tahfid al-Quran al-Karim and several classes to study Arabic and Islamic sciences.
Currently the number of students and students who studied at the school Dar al-Ulum al-Islamiyyah which was founded in 1995 approximately 70 students / I with 7 teachers. This school is on the same level as junior and senior high school. In addition, the Portuguese Muslims published a number of Portuguese and Arabic-language journals such as "Islam" magazines published by al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyyah lilisybunah, al-Qalam magazine, and published "al-Nur" magazines By al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyyah in La ranjiru. Using the Portuguese language and published every two months.
What is worth mentioning here is that the Muslims once conquered Portugal under the command of Moses ibn Nasir and continued by his son, Abdul Aziz, then in turn the Muslims conquered the area which is now the country of Portugal and at the end of the 1st century the area hijri Now a country of Portugal has been subject to the rule of the Muslims and they call this region by the name of Portugal.
But after being able to conquer Portugal, the Muslims migrated to the cold mountain regions of the North and then they descended the mountain to the south, a warm region of fertile land and beautiful nature. Thus, the northern region left by the Muslims became the first area inhabited by the Christians and used as their base to attack the Muslims.
In 541/1147, there was a war between the Muslims and the Christians until the city of Lisbon fell into the hands of Alfonso Hendrik, who proclaimed himself king of Portugal. And finally in 647/1429 the fall also south of Portugal and its center, the city of Serpa
Arabic as a colloquial language
A historian mentions that at that time all non-Muslim Portuguese citizens, both in the town and in the village, spoke in Arabic, as al-Idrisi mentioned about the city of Selpa that the villagers and residents of the city spoke in Arabic.
The Islamic figure from Portugal
Even a large number of Portuguese citizens were superior to the Arabs and Muslims in general in various disciplines and literature, their names listed in bibliographic books and sirah, among which the famous Ibn Bisam al-Syintuwainy (w ), Abu al-Walid al-Baji, the poet Ibn 'Ammar, Abu al-Qasim Ahmad bin Qassy, a man who once gave Selpa city power to Abdul Mu'min al-Tauhidi and a famous historian named Abu Bakr Bin Muhammad bin Idris al-Farabi al-Alusi author of al-Durrah al-Maknunah fi Akhbar Lasybunah.
Among the famous cities that once prevailed in the Muslim period were the city of Lisbon and the city of Selpa in southern Portugal (ay).
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