A Pew Research Center report, published August 9, 2012, presenting survey findings on Muslim religious identity across nearly forty countries, including the share of Muslims in each country who say they belong to a Sufi order. It finds Sufi order membership highest in Senegal, where 92 percent say they belong to a brotherhood, and generally higher across sub-Saharan Africa than in South or Southeast Asia, the Middle East or Central Asia, with no single country's figure standing in for a worldwide total since sectarian and order affiliation data of this kind have never been comprehensively collected everywhere Muslims live.
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Citation
PublisherPew Research Center
Publication Year2012
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2012/08/09/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-1-religious-affiliation/
Source TypeDemographic study
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Pew's own dedicated survey of Muslim religious affiliation and belief across nearly forty countries, published August 9, 2012, asking respondents directly whether they belong to a Sufi order (tariqa); the same standing already given to Pew's other Global Muslim Population reports on this axis (sources 54063, 54064, 54231). Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Africa directly: "generally higher across sub-Saharan Africa than in South or Southeast Asia, the Middle East or Central Asia, with no single country's figure standing in for a worldwide total since sectarian and..."
This source names Asia directly: "Africa than in South or Southeast Asia, the Middle East or Central Asia, with no single country's figure standing in for a worldwide total since sectarian and order affiliation data of this kind..."
This source names Central Asia directly: "or Southeast Asia, the Middle East or Central Asia, with no single country's figure standing in for a worldwide total since sectarian and order affiliation data of this kind have never been..."
This source names Pew Research Center directly: "A Pew Research Center report, published August 9, 2012, presenting survey findings on Muslim religious identity across nearly forty countries, including the share of Muslims in each country who say..."
This source names Southeast Asia directly: "sub-Saharan Africa than in South or Southeast Asia, the Middle East or Central Asia, with no single country's figure standing in for a worldwide total since sectarian and order affiliation data of..."
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