Questions regarding the provenance of Islam in SEA.
1. Islam spread into Southeast Asia as Muslim traders
moved along established maritime trade routes.
2. The Indian trading presence in Southeast
Asian by South Indian Muslims the Shafi'I school
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam
means people of the tradition of Muhammad
1.3. The Chinese Trading contacts with Persia
and Central Asia led to the development of
Sino-Muslim communities in towns along the
southeast coast of China, notably Canton
There are several reasons for the accelerated
pace of Islamization from around 1500 CE.
• 1. The conquest of Melaka by the Portuguese
in 1511.
3. The conversion of the twin kingdoms
of Goa-Tallo (better known as Makassar) in
Sulawesi
4. the wider Islamic world (the Ottoman
Turks, who now controlled the holy centres
of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.)