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United Arab Emirates
Index
Most of the citizens of the UAE are
Sunni (see Glossary)
Muslims who adhere to the Maliki legal tradition
(see Sunni Islam
, ch. 1). Some Sunnis of the Wahhabi sect (followers
of a
strict interpretation of the Hanbali legal school) live in
the Al
Buraymi Oasis, and some who follow the Shafii legal school
live
along the Al Batinah coast. The foreign population
includes
Sunni
and Shia (see Glossary)
Muslims, Hindus, and Christians.
Although varying from amirate to amirate, the degree of
religious freedom afforded non-Muslims is greater in the
UAE than
in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. For example, non-Muslims are
permitted
to worship but not to proselytize. There are several large
Christian churches and schools in the UAE, primarily in
Dubayy
and Abu Dhabi.
Data as of January 1993
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