South+East+Asia

= Spread of Islam to South East Asia  =



Islam started to spread to the Island of South East asia through trade. Most merchants being from the Middle East where the main religion is Islam it was easy for trading ports to be over taken by Muslim traders and merchants.



The fall of the empire Shrivijava which is located between Malacca and Malaya and northeast of Sumarta is when Is Islam was able to dominate the trading ports and spread thier religion more freely. The Islamic religion was spread peacefully along southeast Asia, the norther coast of Sumatra was the first region to be converted.

Though when Muslims tried to start convert and take controll of the trade routes of Malacca which was considered the most powerfull trading city after the fall of the Shrivijava empire. Soon Islam spread along the islands of Malaya, east of sumarta, the trading center of Demak and soon then powerful trading states that was north of Java. Soon Muslims found struggles with the Buddhist and Hindu empires that were less open to the Islamic religion, though that was only in the interior lands because it was not untill long when the rest of the Islands where converted.

Islam was spread to Southeast Asia from India and mostly by Sufis, which explains why the Hindu and Buddhist rituals and beliefs were accepted and tolerated in the territories where Islam mainly dominated. Though Islamic laws were enforced and confide to agreements of the areas that were taken over so social interactions could remain normal and most people of the territory were able to keep their beliefs and practices. You can often see the effects and culture the Islamic religion has taken from the areas they have conquered and even where the religion has left its influence. Especially during the pre-Muslim area where a lot of beliefs that were developed are now incorporated into many Muslim ceremonies. In the worlde above you can seen that trading islam religion and spread are some of the bigest words a long with Malaya and Malacca. This is because Malaya and Malacca where very important areas for trade, they were islands were trade flourished along the trading ports of the Islands on Souteast Asia. This trading helped spread Islam throughout southeast Asia because of Muslim merchants not only trading goods but thier culture as well which relihion was a very big part of it. Soon the merchants would show the ideal characterstics of the Islamic religion and help spread it along the lands the traveled.