Punjabi Muslims

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Punjabi Muslims are an ethnoreligious community of Punjabi-speaking followers of Islam, primarily residing in Pakistan’s Punjab province and parts of northern India, with distinct cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Muslim community
Punjabi people
ethnoreligious group
conversionPeriod medieval period
countryOfCitizenship India
Pakistan
culturalTradition Punjabi folk dance
Punjabi folk music
Sufi devotional practices
Urs festivals at Sufi shrines
qawwali
diaspora Canada
Gulf states
linked to: Persian Gulf states

Middle East
United Kingdom
United States
ethnicity Punjabi
experienced mass migration during Partition of India
festivalsObserved Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Fitr
Mawlid
Muharram commemorations
follow Five Pillars of Islam
historicalReligionBeforeIslam Buddhism
Hinduism
Sikhism
language Hindko
Saraiki
Western Punjabi
linked to: Potohari Punjabi
majorConversionInfluence Delhi Sultanate
Mughal Empire
Sufi missionaries
majorHistoricalEvent Partition of India
majorityCountry Pakistan
majorityStatusIn Punjab, Pakistan
minorityStatusIn Punjab, India
linked to: Punjab
notableSufiOrder Chishti
linked to: Chishti Order

Naqshbandi
Qadiri
primaryLanguage Punjabi
primaryRegion Punjab, Pakistan
relatedGroup Hindko speakers
Muhajirs in Pakistan
linked to: Muhajir people

Punjabi Hindus
Punjabi Sikhs
linked to: Sikh people

Saraiki people
religion Islam
religiousDenomination Ahl-e-Hadith
Barelvi
linked to: Barelvi movement

Deobandi
Shia Islam
Sufi
Sunni Islam
religiousLaw Sharia
religiousText Quran
scriptUsed Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Perso-Arabic script
Shahmukhi script
significantPopulationIn Delhi, India
linked to: Delhi

Haryana, India
linked to: Haryana

Islamabad Capital Territory
linked to: Islamabad

Jammu and Kashmir
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
linked to: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Punjab, India
linked to: Punjab

Sindh, Pakistan
linked to: Sindh
traditionalCuisine Punjabi cuisine
traditionalOccupation agriculture
military service
trade

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Shahmukhi script usedBy Punjabi Muslims