South+East+Asia

__ ** South East Asia ** __

How did Islam spread?: · __Generally peaceful conversion__ ·Muslim first spreading to India later influenced in this spread and filtered of Islamic culture to Southeast Asia
 * Sufis mystics started to spread Islam to Java and many other island in southeast Asia like Celebes, spice lands, Philippines with missionaries.
 * Islamic spread by trade of luxury items to the southeast Asian trading ports. Trade Links paving the way for mass conversion. Muslims ships also carried Sufis for conversion.
 * In 13th century, several small ports center in Southeast Asia converted to Islam and there on spread to other parts
 * In the 15th century, the Malacca Sultanate was first a Hindu kingdom that later converted into a Islamic kingdom (seen in figure 2)

Growth of Trade within the Islamic world: __With the growth of trade the more spread in Islam __
 * From the fall of **Shrivijaya** flung trading empire the Islamic faith grow.
 * Cities with stronger trading power, the first to be converted like, **Malacca** and **Demak**.
 * Slow progress to central Java
 * Trading clustered conversion

Urbanization and Islam:
 * Provided a __common basis for Muslim law__ to regulate business deals and enhancement of personal ties in these regions
 * __Increased of civilized life__: cities and university and accomplishment in vibrant religious and philosophical life and pioneered patterns of organizations and thinking that affects development of human societies.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Architecture throughout the Islamic world:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__Islam influenced the construction of religious architecture__. The building of mosques and schools centers

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examples of Syncretism and Islam: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· __Islamic (Sufis) teachings and rituals were combined with elements of animist, Hindu, and Buddhist religion__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sufis allowing Southeast Asian inhabitants could retain slam beliefs and practices contrary to Islamic doctrine.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pre-Islamic customary law regulated social interactions with importance and Islamic law confined specific sorts of agreement and exchanges.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Women retained a stronger position in family and society regional markets dominated by female buyers and sellers and Lineage and inheritance traced to female.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pre-Muslim religious beliefs and rituals incorporated with Muslim ceremonies.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cultural staples were refined and more centered in popularity and elite beliefs and practices than before the Muslim era

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reactions to Islam: __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Depending on the people Islam had mixed reviews but was mostly liked __
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People of the the Shrivijaya, disliked the spread of Islam since they were devoted Buddhist.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Islam was well liked, People saw Islam to have magical powers.