An attempt has been made to provide an in-depth study of 1.2 billion Muslims of the world—who and where they are and how they live. It seeks to discover what they have in common, what distinguishes them from each other and what they feel about themselves. Here, we have identified 750 Muslims tribes, castes and communities. Of these, 246 Muslim groups are Indian—90 are in the northern, 73 in the western, 35 in the eastern, 20 in the central, 20 in the southern and 8 in the north-eastern regions of the country. Besides them, there are some groups who have undergone changes of their identity altogether. The entries of this Encyclopaedia show that Muslims have much in common, they share an universal trans-ethnic religion-Islam, the second largest religion after Christianity. They worship the same God, recognize more or less the same religious laws, but observe many of the same rituals and share distinguishable culture traits derived from their Islamic heritage.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A.M. Khan
A.M. Khan is an eminent social scientist. He has specialised himself in South-East Asian studies and produced several research papers published in journals of national and international repute. He is a Professor in Rajshahi University, Bangladesh.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR N K Singh
Dr. Naresh Kumar Singh received his Bachelor degree in Veterinary Sciences in 1998 and his undergraduate study was funded through the merit scholarship from Ministry of Defence, India. He accomplished his postgraduation on animal pain management in 2000 with ICAR-JRF from I.V.R.I., Izatnagar, India. Subsequently, he pursued his Ph.D. from I.V.R.I. (2001-2005) with I.C.A.R.-SRF, India. During Ph.D. his research focus was on cartilage repair with cultured chondrocytes/mesenchymal stem cells along various growth factors and his work was recongnised by national (ISVS-India) and International (ICRS, USA) Societies. Dr. Singh worked on stem cells transdifferentiation and proteomics during his postdoctoral research (PDF) at NLRI, Suwon (2005-2007) and his work was recognized and received excellent presentation award in the year 2006 at XIIth International Animal Science Congress (AAAP) held at Bexco, Busan , Republic of Korea. Dr Singh received Best Researcher Award for the year 2006-2007 from NLRI, South Korea. He has worked as Assistant Professor in the Division of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, SKUAST-J, Jammu, India for more than eight years (2001-2010). Dr. Singh has also been working in collaboration with various researchers around the globe on challenging issues pertaining to animal health. He has published four books, contributed three chapters, edited one book (in press) and published more than thirty five research papers in the national and international peer reviewed journals. Dr. Singh, is member of editorial boards of few international and national journals of repute. Dr. Singh is presently working as faculty in the Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Animal Life Sciences, KNU, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.
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