Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

140 Religiousness and religious practice
pears to be accorded to prayer by a large proportion of Alevis.
42 per cent of Alevis state that they never pray. The approach to
prayer appears to have a polarising effect. This is clearly shown
by a comparison of the proportions of those who pray daily with
those who never pray. Among the Shiites in particular, it is noticeable
that the group of those who pray daily (31 per cent) is
almost as large as the group of persons who never pray (33 per
cent). A similar trend is to be observed among the members of
other Islamic denominations. Here, those who pray daily account
for a share of 30 per cent, while 22 per cent of interviewees
never pray.
Figure 29: Frequency of prayer of interviewed Muslims according to
denomination (in per cent)
Sunni
Shiite
Alevi
Other
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
11,4
21,7
33,1
15,5
42,3
2,8
16,0
7,3
14,0
11,6
5,7
6,3
2,9
17,1
10,0
10,5
11,4
1,2 7,6
never a few times a year once a month at most a few times a month
once a week several times a week daily
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 2,234
A look at the regions of origin, focusing exclusively on
Muslims, reveals a different picture. The polarising effect of the
approach to prayer, which was revealed by the previous calculations,
becomes less pronounced here. People from Southeast
2,9
9,6
8,6
4,1
41,5
9,9
30,8
30,3
14,2