One of the main reasons is the disinterests of most Sahelian leaders. Sahelian leaders, rulers of which comprised nations like Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Nigeria, Guinea, etc. They did not develop a belief of spreading Islamic religion to the people there. Instead, they kept it as their own.
Difficult terrains and the prevalence of diseases such as malaria in certain regions made travel and communication for Muslim preachers challenging. The natural barriers significantly slowed down the spread of Islam beyond the Sahel and into regions like Central and Southern Africa.
Islam primarily spread by conquest, trade and missionary work. With respect to China none of these factors was sufficient to gain a major following for Islam in China. Those areas of central Asia where there are significant Muslim populations were there already and conquered by China.
Was Islam spread through West Africa mostly due to trade?
To reach West Africa, the religion of Islam joined the caravans of Amazigh traders. The Amazigh people were merchants who were a large part of the trans-Saharan trade. These caravans would cross the Sahara Desert to trade with the large, rich sub-Saharan empires, and they brought the religion with them.
By the 9th century, Muslim Sultanates started being established in the Horn of Africa, and by the 12th century, the Kilwa Sultanate had spread as far south as Mozambique. Islam only crossed deeper into Malawi and Congo in the second half of the 19th century under the Zanzibar Sultanate.
Who was most responsible for spreading Islam to Africa?
The spread of Islam in Africa began in the 7th to 9th century, brought to North Africa initially under the Umayyad Dynasty. Extensive trade networks throughout North and West Africa created a medium through which Islam spread peacefully, initially through the merchant class.
There are many reasons why Islam spread so quickly. First Mecca was connected to many global trade routes. Another important reason was their military conquered lots of territory. A third factor was the Muslims fair treatment of conquered peoples.
Between the eighth and ninth centuries, Arab traders and travelers, then African clerics, began to spread the religion along the eastern coast of Africa and to the western and central Sudan (literally, “Land of Black people”), stimulating the development of urban communities.
Islam spread through Africa on the backs of merchant trade routes and militaristic expansion. It began, however, in the small town of Mecca in what is now Saudi Arabia. The Prophet Muhammad began spreading the teachings of Islam in 610 CE.
The Qur'an does not mention China or the Chinese itself, and there is no Chinese reference to Arabs (arch. Dashi 大食) in China prior to the Battle of Talas.
Ultimately because Islam (like many other religions) spread by conquest, and when it started losing battles & campaigns in Europe instead of winning them, it stopped spreading there. Will Muslims conquer Europe? NO. Never, beacause we, european christians will never let it to happen.
Unlike most Chinese-speakers in the rest of the world, who now refer to Islam phonetically as Yisilan jiao in Mandarin, those in Malaysia and Singapore still use the old Chinese word Hui jiao, literally “the religion of the Hui people”. It is the same with the Chinese word for Muslims.
Forms of polytheism was widespread in most of ancient African and other regions of the world, before the introduction of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. An exception was the short-lived monotheistic religion created by Pharaoh Akhenaten, who made it mandatory to pray to his personal god Aten (see Atenism).
Why didn't Islam spread into India the same way it did in Africa or the Middle East? Partly because of the difference in culture between Islam and Hinduism. )The demographic balance made a difference. Unlike India, far more Turkic-speaking peoples settled in Anatolia.
Main Takeaways: The most solidly Muslim countries in Africa are located in and around the Maghreb, the Sahara Desert, and the continent's eastern horn. The most solidly Muslim countries in Africa are: 1) Morocco, 2) Somalia, 3) Tunisia, 4) Mauritania, and 5) Sudan.
Today, it is the second most popular religion in the world, with over 1 billion followers. The history of its expansion began back in the 7th century, when the religion was still young. It spread very quickly, especially into Africa, traveling through two primary means: trade and warfare.
Christianity came first to the continent of Africa in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. Oral tradition says the first Muslims appeared while the prophet Mohammed was still alive (he died in 632). Thus both religions have been on the continent of Africa for over 1,300 years.
Largely because its teachings became an ideology through which the Berbers justified both their rebellion against the caliphs and their support of rulers who rejected caliphal authority (see below), Islam gained wide appeal and spread rapidly among these fiercely independent peoples.
Adherents hold that Hinduism—one of the principal faiths in the modern world, with about one billion followers—is the world's oldest religion, with complete scriptural texts dating back 3,000 years.
The Sunni and Shiite split dates back to the Prophet Muhammad's death in 632 A.D., when differing opinions on who should succeed him sparked violent disputes. The majority of the community believed in a democratic election in order to install a new leader.
What is the fastest growing religion in the world?
Modern growth. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. In 1990, 1.1 billion people were Muslims, while in 2010, 1.6 billion people were Muslims.
Therefore, one would say that Islam arrived in South-East Asia in a peaceful way through trade and interactions between Muslim merchants and the locals. Similarly to Buddhism, Islam blended with existing cultural and religious influences of the Southeast Asian regions.
The best reply to the misconception that Islam was spread by the sword is given by the noted historian De Lacy O'Leary in the book “Islam at the cross road” (Page 8): “History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon ...
Arab traders first introduced Islam to the Swahili coast in the ninth century. Appreciating its religious value, the Swahili people also recognized that adopting their neighbor's religion would help their trading relationships as well, granting them new access to trade networks.
