Islam in Chad

[1] By the time Arab migrants began arriving from the east in the fourteenth century in sizeable numbers, the creed was already well established.

Similarly, in the mid-nineteenth century, the Sanusiyya brotherhood was founded in Libya, which benefited from economic and political influence in the Lake Chad Basin around 1900.

[4] An Islamic revival movement, feared by some French, led by Sanusi fanatics, Chadian adherents, limited to the Awlad Sulayman Arabs and the Toubou of eastern Tibesti, have never been numerous.

[2]: 72  Scholars travel abroad to places such as Khartoum and Cairo, where Chadians attend Al Azhar.

Some Chadian Muslims follow the Ramadan fast stricter than typical, with some refusing to swallow their saliva during the day.