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states,
There are many Hindus in Arab states many due to the
Samskaras migration of Indians to the oil-rich states around the Per-
sian Gulf.
Garbhadhana · Pumsavana · Simantonayana · Jatakarma ·
Hindu temples have been built in Bahrain, the United
Namakarana · Nishkramana · Annaprashana ·
Chudakarana · Karnavedha · Vidyarambha · Upanayana · Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Yemen and Oman.
Praishartha · Keshanta · Ritushuddhi · Samavartana · The estimated figures for the Hindu population in
Vivaha · Antyeshti several Arab countries is as follows: [1]
• Saudi Arabia 500,000
Varnashrama Dharma • United Arab Emirates 450,000
• Oman 300,000
Varna
Brahmin · Kshatriya • Kuwait 200,000
Vaishya · Shudra • Bahrain 100,000
Ashrama • Qatar 90,000
Brahmacharya · Grihastha • Yemen 6,000
Vanaprastha · Sanyasa
• Total: 2.7 million
Festivals The number of Hindus in other Arab countries, including
the countries of the Levant and North Africa, is thought
Navaratri
Vijayadashami (Dasara) to be negligible, though Libya has an Indian community
Deepavali · Shivaratri · Holi of about 10,000 [2] individuals, many of whom are likely
Kumbha Mela · Ratha Yatra · Vishu · Bihu · Baisakhi · to be Hindu. It is not known whether any Hindu temples
Puthandu exist in these countries.
Ganesh Chaturthi · Onam (See Hinduism by country for the sources of these fig-
Rama Navami · Janmashtami
Raksha Bandhan ures, which may need to be adjusted.)
Philosophers
Historical background
Ancient
Gautama · Jaimini · Kanada · Kapila · Markandeya · Historically, links between Arabia and the western coast
Patañjali · Valmiki · Vyasa of India have been strong and persistent. Arab sailors
Medieval were using the southwest monsoon winds to trade with
Adi Shankara · Basava · Dnyaneshwar · Chaitanya ·
western Indian ports before the first century CE. An Arab
Gangesha Upadhyaya · Gaudapada · Jayanta Bhatta ·
Kabir · Kumarila Bhatta · Madhusudana · Madhva · army conquered Sindh in 711. Arab traders settled in Ker-
Namdeva · Nimbarka · Prabhakara · Raghunatha ala in the 8th century, becoming the ancestors of the
Siromani · Ramanuja · Srimanta Sankardeva · Vedanta Mappilas. In the opposite direction, medieval Gujaratis
Desika · Tukaram · Tulsidas · Vachaspati Mishra · Vallabha and other Indians traded extensively with Arab and So-
Modern
mali ports, including Ormuz, Socotra, Mogadishu, Merca,
Aurobindo · Coomaraswamy · Dayananda Saraswati ·
Gandhi · Krishnananda · Narayana Guru · Prabhupada · Barawa, Hobyo and Aden. Arab merchants were the dom-
Ramakrishna · Ramana Maharshi · Radhakrishnan · inant carriers of Indian Ocean trade until the Portuguese
Sivananda · Vivekananda · Yogananda forcibly supplanted them at the end of the 15th century.
Indo-Arabian links were renewed under the British Em-
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pire, when many Indians serving in the army or civil ser-
Hindu denominations vice were stationed in Arab lands such as Sudan. The cur-
Hinduism by country
rent wave of Indian immigration to the Arab states of the
Mythology • Hindu calendar
Hindu law • Hindu iconography Persian Gulf dates roughly to the 1960s.same as.
Hindu nationalism • Hindutva
Hindu pilgrimage sites
Persecution • Criticism Hinduism in Oman
Glossary Oman has a immigrant Hindu minority. The number of
Hindus has declined in the 20th century although it is
now stable. Hinduism first came to Muscat in 1507 from
Sindh. The original Hindus spoke Kutchi language. By
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early 19th century there were at least 4,000 Hindus in
Oman, all of the intermediate merchant caste. By 1900,
Sources
there numbers had plummeted to 300. In 1895 the Hindu • Consulate General of India in Dubai
colony in Muscat came under attack by the Ibadhis. By
the time of independence, only a few dozen Hindus re-
mained in Oman. The historical Hindu Quarters of al-
References
Waljat and al-Banyan are no longer occupied by Hindus. • A Former Hermit Kingdom, Oman Emerges From its
Hindu temples once located in Ma’bad al Banyan and Shell
Bayt al Pir, no longer exist; the only active Hindu temples • Oman - International Religious Freedom Report 2004
today are the Muthi Shwar temple located in Al-Hawshin • The Sultanate in Brief - Culture and Heritage
Muscat, the Shiva temple located in Muttrah, and the Kr- • International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Oman
ishna temple located in Darsait. The only Hindu cremato-
rium is located in Sohar, northwest of Muscat. The most
prominent immigrant Hindus (Kutchi), are Khimji Ram-
Notes
das, Dhanji Morarji, Ratansi Purushottam and Purushot- [1] J.E. Peterson, Oman’s diverse society: Northern
tam Toprani.[1] Oman, Middle East Journal, Vol. 58, Nr. 1, Winter
2004
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