- Islam in Togo
Muslims inTogo represent between 13.7 and 55% of the national population.Islam came to Togo about the same time as it did much ofWest Africa .History
Islam was first introduced into West Africa south of the
Sahara , across the salt and gold trade routes. Islamicized Berber andTuareg merchants traveled the trans-Saharan trade routes. As time passed, Muslim clerics and scholars — teaching their beliefs and setting up places of worship along the routes — accompanied traders on their journeys. The Hausa and the Fulani, a traditionally nomadic group, traveled all over West Africa, taking their Muslim beliefs to places such as present-dayGuinea ,Sierra Leone , andLiberia .Demographics
Estimates on the number of Muslims in Togo tend to vary considerably depending on the source. For example, according to Wikipedia's
Islam in Africa page, Togo is approximately 13.7% Muslim, while the [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/to.html#People CIA Factbook] the figure is 20%. According to islamic web muslims are 55% of the population around 2,513,792 out of 4,570,530 this was estimated by the year 1998.External links
* [http://islamicweb.com/begin/population.htm Islamic web listing of Muslims by country]
* [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/to.html#People CIA factbook entry for Togo]
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