Sub+Saharan+Africa

﻿ Sub Saharan Africa Spread of Islam began with trade and the creation of trading posts along the Swahili Coast. It began with immigrants living on the island of Madagascar that introduced new foods, bananas, and coconuts to the African coast. With that new food, it began to be highly popular with the people that help the spread of small coastal villages. With trade and interactions for the small coastal villages, it could have been what make Africa prosper at the time. As visitors and refugees visited the coast, Persians began to urbanized trading ports along the coast during the 13th century. Towns were ruled by a separate group of elite Muslims where they spread their faith and culture. Along the Land of Zenj, of the trading coast, Africans would trade ivory, gold, iron, slaves in exchange for precious silks and porcelain. Arabs were highly impressed with trade because it was a "beautiful and well-constructed" town. However the sucess of trade only lasted for about 2 centuries. Muslim culture didn't blend as much, and where as Muslim faith only converted through class and jobs. Rulers and merchants would tend to me Muslim, were the rest of the population was still believing to what their previous religion was. However the language became based on Arabic script and transferring knowledge was by oral mouth. In Africa, people did create mosques and palaces to worship to Islamic faith. Great Mosque of Djenne was the area not worship but as a palace created in West Africa made of mud. It first began building in the 13th century. The mosque went into reconstruction in 1906. The place an important area to learn the ways of the Islamic culture during the Middle Ages. With the building of the Mosque it shows how important the Islamic culture became to them. It was easy to built thus making the faith easier to spread and learn. media type="custom" key="7389451" align="center" Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali, Africa ^

> The wordle above describes the Sub Sahara Africa. The bigger words such as culture, trade, began, and Muslim play a big role for the spread of Islam into this area. Trade like another brung the Islamic culture into Sub Sahara Africa where the Arabic began. The muslims would worship their God in places like a mosque.

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