spread of Islam spans almost 1,400 years. The early Muslim conquests that occurred following the death of Muhammad in 632 CE led to the creation of the...
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The spread of Islam was slow. The limited evidence that is currently known suggests that the spread of Islam accelerated in the 15th century. One of the...
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introduction of Islam to Southeast and East Asia. The religion was then further spread by Sufi orders and finally consolidated by the expansion of the territories...
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India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of the Muslim population. Islam spread in Indian communities along the Arab coastal trade routes...
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across different parts of Bengal to spread Islam. Jalal is now a household name among Muslims in Bangladesh. The establishment of a single united Bengal...
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him as leader of the Muslim community during the Rāshidūn Caliphate. The early Muslim conquests were responsible for the spread of Islam. By the 8th century...
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political threat of the Abbasid Caliphate gone, these soon reverted to Sunni Islam - specifically, the Maliki branch, whose popularity had spread widely in the...
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large numbers, encouraging the spread of Islam. However, when the Portuguese arrived during the 16th century, many of these Arab traders' descendants...
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established the Islamic Empire. The Umayyad Caliphate continued the spread of Islam. The Islamic Golden Age was soon inaugurated by the middle of the 8th century...
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Conversion to Islam is accepting Islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion. The person who converts to Islam is often referred...
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Islam began entering Iran a few years after it was founded by Muhammad in the 7th century. The Arab conquest of Iran, which culminated in the fall of...
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The history of North Africa has been divided into its prehistory, its classical period, the arrival and spread of Islam, the colonial period, and finally...
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the spread of Islam from the 9th to 14th centuries, and they proselytized across trade routes between North Africa and the sub-Saharan kingdom of Mali...
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Islam (/ˈɪzlɑːm, ˈɪzlæm/ IZ-la(h)m; Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام, romanized: al-Islām, IPA: [alʔɪsˈlaːm], lit. 'submission [to the will of God]') is an Abrahamic...
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Fajr prayer (redirect from Morning Prayer (Islam))
(daily Islamic prayer) offered in the early morning. Consisting of two rak'a, it is performed between the break of dawn and sunrise. It is one of two prayers...
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Trans-Saharan trade (redirect from Islamic trading routes)
The spread of Islam to sub-Saharan African was linked to trans-Saharan trade. Islam spread via trade routes, and Africans converting to Islam increased...
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The Islamization of Iran was the spread of Islam in formerly Sassanid Iran as a result of the Muslim conquest of the empire in 633–654. It was a long process...
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administration and military brought Islam to Albania. In the first few centuries of Ottoman rule, the spread of Islam in Albania was slow and mainly intensified...
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important presence of a syncretic form of Islam known as kebatinan. Islam in Indonesia is considered to have gradually spread through merchant activities by Arab...
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practitioners of Zahirism and non-denominational Muslims. Islam is the nation's state religion. Blasphemy against Islam is a punishable offense. Islam was first...
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Southeast Asia (redirect from Culture of Southeast Asia)
of trade among West Asia, India and Southeast Asia helped the spread of the religion as Muslim traders from Southern Yemen (Hadramout) brought Islam to...
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Sufism (redirect from Sufi Islam)
played an important role in spreading Islam through their missionary and educational activities. Despite a relative decline of Sufi orders in the modern...
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Criticism of Islam, including of Islamic beliefs, practices, and doctrines, can take many forms, including academic critiques, political criticism, religious...
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following is a list of people who converted to Islam from a different religion or no religion. This article addresses only past professions of faith by the individuals...
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Java (redirect from Island of Java)
coast. Many of the best known events in Indonesian history took place on Java. It was the centre of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, the Islamic sultanates...
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Islam is the state religion in Bahrain. Due to an influx of immigrants and guest workers from non-Muslim countries, such as India, the Philippines and...
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2020. Studies in the 21st century suggest that, in terms of percentage and worldwide spread, Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in the world, mostly...
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affected the spread of Islam. In addition, the embracing of Islam by large portions of coastal tribes in the nineteenth century aided in its spread. Besides...
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plot against Islam—often refer to the enemies of Islam (as in al-Tawbah verses 9:1–15).: 9:1–15 According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Quran states...
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prophet Muhammad, from the 7th century onwards, Islam spread rapidly from the Arabian Peninsula to then rest of the world through either trade, missionaries...
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