Islam in Comoros
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Islam and its institutions help to integrate Comoros society and provide an identification with a world beyond the islands' shores. Most of the muslim people are Arab/Swahili or Persian, but there are also Indian muslims in the Comoros
As a mostly Sunni Muslim country, the people follow religious observances conscientiously and strictly adhere to religious orthodoxy. During the period of colonization, the French did not attempt to supplant Islamic customs and practices and were careful to respect the precedents of Islamic law as interpreted by the Shafi'i school (one of the four major legal schools in Sunni Islam, named after Muhammad ibn Idris ash Shafii, it stresses reasoning by analogy). Hundreds of mosques dot the islands.
Practically all children attend Qur'anic school for two or three years, starting around age five; there they learn the rudiments of the Islamic faith and some classical Arabic. When rural children attend these schools, they sometimes move away from home and help the teacher work his land.
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