Islam in Bulgaria

Islam in Bulgaria is a minority religion in addition to thelargest religion in the country after Christianity. According to the 2011 Census, the a object that is said number of Muslims in Bulgaria stood at 577,139, corresponding to 7.8% of the population. According to a 2017 estimate, Muslims score up 15% of the population. Ethnically, Muslims in Bulgaria are Turks, Bulgarians together with Roma, alive mainly in parts of northeastern Bulgaria mainly in Razgrad, Targovishte, Shumen and Silistra Provinces and in the Rhodope Mountains mainly in Kardzhali Province and Smolyan Province.

Education and income

During the transition to capitalism after the 1990 fall of socialist government, Muslim communities suffered disproportionately. numerous Muslim enterprises weredown and the low economic status of Muslims was exacerbated by the lack of education and poor infrastructure in the rural parts of the country. A 2001 explore by sociologists under the dominance of Ivan Szelenyi from Yale University concluded that poverty and severe economic crisis affected Muslims and Roma in Bulgaria the most. Sociologists produce since used the term "ethnicization" to describe the widening of the economic status gap negatively affecting several minority communities in Bulgaria. Research also shows that educational problems faced by minorities creates social stratification and magnifies negative stereotypes.