South+East+Asia

MI: Traders and Sufi mystics spread Islam to Java and much of the rest of Southeast Asia. Conversion was peaceful and the new believers united Islamic teaching and rituals with elements for the animist, Hindu, and Buddhist religions that had spread throughout the area in earlier centuries.
 * The Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia **
 * ports on the coast of the Malayan peninsula, east Sumatra, and north Java, goods from China were transferred from east Asian to Arab/Indian shops
 * Southeast Asian product important exports to China, India + Mediterranean regions
 * Trading links = expansion of Islam in southeast Asia
 * Collapse of the trading empire of Shrivijaya = chance for spread introduction of Islam
 * (Shrivijaya) rulers and officials = Buddhists= little chance to convert to Islam
 * Peaceful contacts and voluntary conversion (more important than) conquest and force in spreading the faith in southeast Asia
 * Sufis traveled in Muslim ships = parts of southeast Asia to conversion (Like India)
 * Religion spread through ports (Malacca to Malaya)
 * Struggled with Hindu-Buddhist kingdom = island converted to Islam
 * Islam carried to Celebes and eastern archipelago then to Mindanao in the southern Philippines
 * Islam to southeast Asia because of India (“by Sufis”)
 * Sufis varied widely in personality and approach (people believed they had magical powers
 * Sufis established mosque and school centers
 * Women had a position =winning family and in society compared to Middle East and India
 * Some small scale female dominated local and regional markets[[image:worddle.jpg width="640" height="618"]]