Today, the Cham people are largely Muslim, with a minority following Hinduism, both formed the indigenous Muslim and Hindu population in both Cambodia and Vietnam. [12] . Despite their adherence to Islam, the Cham people still retain their ancestral practice of matriarchy in family and inheritance. [13]

Islam is the religion of a majority of the Cham and Malay minorities in Cambodia. According to activist Po Dharma, there were 150,000 to 200,000 Muslims in Cambodia as late as 1975, although this may have been an exaggeration.

2016年2月3日 · In the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, a small community of Cambodian Muslims live half their lives on the water. Children ride their bikes into the Cham Village in Phnom Penh Cambodia. Chams...

Most are Muslims and speak the Cham language, which belongs to the Austronesian family. Another distinct group of Cham is sometimes called Chvea. They speak mainly Khmer and may have originated from Java. Both groups belong to the Shafi branch of Sunni Islam. A third group is known as the Jahed.

2020年1月2日 · It explored Islam’s holy month and reflections from the perspective of what it’s like being Cham, Muslim and growing up in America. It is a piece that represents the unique experience of three youth and their connection to religion and culture.

The two groups include: Sunni, traditional Muslims, along the lines of Arab Muslims, who pray five times per day, and Fojihed Muslims, who follow an ancient Cham interpretation of the religion. "They only pray once a week. They speak Cham, and keep the old Cham traditions."

The Cham Muslims are better known as the Champa people, who came from Champa [on. the southeast coast of Vietnam]. According to the Koran, Islam was first [transmitted. to the people] by Mohammed and came from the Arab world. The Cambodian Cham Muslims were converted by Indian, Malaysian and Indonesian Muslims

The Cham Muslims of Cambodia, descendants of the once-powerful Champa kingdom, have transformed from a neglected minority into a significant player in Islamic internationalism.

The majority of the Muslim Cham community had no idea of their ethnic origin or preferences beyond that of their local religious affiliations and considered themselves simply Muslims. [1] [44] Though by the time of the population exchange, the Muslim Cham population had been nationalized and constituted a "de facto Albanian national minority ...

This article presents an overview of the religious and political development of Cambodia’s Cham Muslims, most of whom are Sunnis, from the days of French colonialism up to the present, and shows how this formerly neglected minority became a showcase of Islamic internationalism.