How did Indonesia become Muslim?

Which country has the largest Muslim population in the entire world?

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt or Nigeria

Well, none of them. The correct answer is Indonesia

Islam is the religion in Indonesia with most of its adherents with eighty-seven point two percent of the Indonesian population

Identifying themselves as Muslims and 2010 survey

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world with approximately

220 million Muslims, but they look at the map of the world and know that Islam began in Arabia in the seventh century

In terms of expanding to include more people, especially in continental North Africa and Southwest Asia a

The question just popped up. How did Islam reach this archipelago?

How did these distant islands become Muslim?

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The Islamic conquests after Muhammad's death led to the creation of the caliphate

These empires expanded rapidly and occupied enormous geographical areas

Occupying more and more lands, the conversion to Islam was promoted through missionary activities

Especially those imams. They told the religious teachings of the local people

Due to the rapid military expansion, the new religion expanded as well, and new territories were conquered

These early dynasties focused on spreading the new religion

But they also focused on the economics of research and trade

During the Islamic Golden Age more and more people became accustomed to this religion, including the crowned heads

Nobles but also merchants and merchants led to a rapid spread towards the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

The influence of Islam first appeared in the Indian subcontinent

During the early seventh century AD with the emergence of Arab merchants

Arab merchants used to visit the Malabar region

Which was a link between them and the ports of Southeast Asia for trade even before the establishment of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula

Arab merchants and merchants became bearers of the new religion and spread it wherever they went

However, the subsequent expansion of the Islamic invasion into the Indian subcontinent

Over the next millennia that cemented Islam in the region, Muslim missionaries played a major role in the spread of Islam in Asia

Some missionaries even assume roles as merchants

They were sent across Asia in all directions under various addresses often as merchants

Missionaries were directed to speak to would-be converts in their native language

Even before the establishment of Islam among the Indonesian societies

Muslim sailors and merchants often visited the shores of modern Indonesia

Most of these early sailors and merchants arrived from the newly established Abbasid caliphs

The ports of Basra and the ball removal were rich in spice

Exotic fruits and other commodities There is evidence that Arab Muslim merchants entered Indonesia as early as the eighth century

But it wasn't until 12 or 13

A century then Islam began spreading

Then it expanded further due to the adoption of local rulers and elites

The missionaries came from many regions and regions, and some came from India and later from the south

Peninsula It is believed that around the 13th century the religion began to appear on the northern coast of Sumatra

After this Islam, it spread by Sufi orders, and finally it was consolidated by expanding lands

Rulers and their societies transformed

Not knowing a specific date when conversion began and there is no clear indication of when Islam first came to the region

We might think first around the eleventh or twelfth century

The first signs of an Islamic grave date back to 1080 - also when Marco Polo visited the area

1292 indicated that Perlak urban port was a Muslim

The first evidence of a Muslim race in the grave is dated

1297 of Sultan Malik Al-Saleh, the first Muslim ruler of the Sultanate of Selj

Chinese sources record the presence of a Muslim delegation to the emperor from the Kingdom of Samudra in General

1282

The spread of Islam generally followed the eastern trade routes

Through the Buddhist region in the first place and after half a century in malakas

We see the first dynasty to arise in the shape of the Malacca Sultanate at the far end of the archipelago

It was formed by converting one Shah into a Muslim and adopting the name Muhammad Iskandar Shah

The spread of Islam among the ruling class arose when Muslim merchants married local women

With some wealthy merchants they marry into the families of the ruling elite

The Indonesian people began as local rulers and kings adopting it

After that their flocks reflected their transformation

Expansion accelerated in the fifteenth century as the military power of the Malacca Sultanate in Malaya, Peninsula

And the other Islamic salt is

He controlled the region with the help of the Islamic coup rings

Wars and superior control over maritime trade and final markets

By the 14th century Islam had been established in Northeast Malaya

Brunei is southwest of the Philippines and between some quarts of eastern and central coastal Java

The fifteenth century saw the decline of the Hindu-Javan Majapahit Empire as Muslim merchants from Arabia and India

Samara and the Malay Peninsula as well as China began to dominate the regional trade that once controlled the Javanese Majapahit

Merchants

The Ming Dynasty of China provided regular support to Malacca

Zhang's Chinese expeditions are attributed to the establishment of a Chinese Muslim settlement in Palembang

North coast of Java

Malacca actively promoted conversion to Islam in the region during the activity of the Ming Fleet

Established Chinese Muslim Malay community in Northeast Coast, Java

Thus creating permanent opposition to the Javanese Hindus. The mission founded a Muslim Chinese

Arab and Malaysian communities in the northern ports of Java

The dominant Muslim kingdoms were more and more present in the archipelago

The historical Hindu population was anemests

Hindus and Buddhists and in time many of them accepted the new religion because the Muslim merchants and merchants

Islamic teachings spread during trade with the local population and their teachings encouraged proselytizing of the religion

Hindus and Buddhists generally do not and evangelize

Islam is a system of monotheistic beliefs, and it does not allow its followers to believe in another deity

Being a Muslim has created more favorable benefits and conditions for the local population

From being non-Muslim some people need safety and certainty

So they choose to declare themselves Muslims

Because Islam appeared in Southeast Asia through trade with the people of southern Arabia and Sufism

The transition took place more peacefully than in the Middle East or North Africa where there are conflicts

Indonesia was the slower process, but was created differently by elite merchants and nobles

The existence of property made it easy for religion to spread among the common people

The presence of Christianity in the monarchy made it easy for the religion to spread to European kingdoms

Meanwhile on the island of Java, the Empire of the Hindu Jeep Majah was collapsing

Some of these new kingdoms were supported by Ming China through assimilation

Trade related property transfers and the invasion of Islam has supplanted

Hinduism and Buddhism as the dominant religion in Java and Sumatra by the end of the 16th century

But many cultural and religious customs were mostly from the Hindu Buddhist era

Tolerance and even incorporation into the Islamic rituals

Aslam did not obliterate pre-existing culture

Incorporation and incorporation of local customs and non-Islamic elements into the rules

part

The strong presence of Sufism is a major enabler for reconciliation between Islam and other religions

When the Europeans came they brought Christianity to the Muslim majority

But not much converted, probably due to the fact that at that time already

The dialect is not put on religion as much as it was in the twelfth or thirteenth centuries, but that is another argument

Indonesia is a large country with over 250 million people of various cultures and ethnicities

Across thousands of islands from a religious point of view

Indonesia is not governed by a single law because more than 80 percent of the population is Muslim

Indonesia can be called one of the Islamic countries in the world

But Indonesia is not traditional Islamic

The constitution is not based specifically on their religion, and it also contains many values

The universal ones that are also available in Islam as well as in other religions

It laid in what is known as Bang Casela the five philosophical pillars of the country

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