Islam in Qatar

Qatar is a Muslim-majority country with Islam as the state religion. The Salafi movement, in its Hanbali version of Islam, is dominant in Qatar, making it one of the two Hanbali majority states in the Muslim world, along with Saudi Arabia. However, there is a large Shafi'i population, with the country's most renowned Islamic scholar Ali al-Qaradaghi belonging to the Shafi'i school. Most South Asian Muslims in Qatar practice the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam.

The local population is mainly Muslim, but the massive population of migrant workers, far outnumbering the locals, comes from a variety of backgrounds. In 2010, 67.8% of the population was Muslim, 13.8% Christian, 13.8% Hindu and 3.1% Buddhist. At the end of 2013, there were a total of 1,848 mosques operating in the country. By 2024, the number was over 2,000.

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