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How Islam Spread Throughout the World
Abstract
Introduction
I: The spread of the message
Daʿwah
Trade
Migration
Intermarriage
Influencers
II: The acceptance of the message
The Islamic emphasis on justice
The Islamic emphasis on unity
The universality of Islam
Conclusion
Notes
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[6] They narrate that Abu Burda reported: “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sent Mu’adh and himself to Yemen and he said, ‘Make things easy and do not make things difficult. Give glad tidings and do not repel people. Cooperate with each other and do not become divided.’” (Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 2873, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1733; see Abu Amina Elias, “Hadith on Da’wah: Give glad tidings, make it easy, and remain united,”).
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[16] Mohibbul Hasan, Kashmir under the Sultans (Srinagar: Ali Mohammad and Sons, 1974), 39.
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[25] Ibid., 213.
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[41] Ibid.
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[54] Ibid., 16.
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[56] Lings, Muhammad, 81.
[57] Diouf, Servants of Allah, 70.
[58] Ibid.
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[63] Ibid., 148.
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[70] Maya Shatzmiller, “Marriage, Family, and the Faith: Women’s Conversion to Islam,” Journal of Family History 21, no. 3 (July 1996): 235.
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[75] Eric Dursteler, “Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel: Renegade Women in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” The Medieval History Journal 12, no. 2 (2009): 375.
[76] Ibid., 372.
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[89] Hugh Kennedy, The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In (Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2007), 93.
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[95] This is based on the CIA Factbook’s estimate for 2014.
[96] Dawn-Marie Gibson, A History of the Nation of Islam: Race, Islam and the Quest for Freedom (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2012), 77.
[97] Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 288.
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[99] Ibid., 239.
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[116] Ibid.
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[122] Ibid., 850.
[123] Ismāʿīl Nawwāb, “A Matter of Love: Muhammad Asad and Islam,” Islamic Studies 39, no. 2 (2000): 230.
[124] Ibid., 171.
[125] Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley (New York: Ballantine Books, 1973), 396.
[126] One person who was drawn to Mali based on reports he had heard was the famous traveler Ibn Battūtah, who visited in 1352; see David Waines, The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer (London: I.B. Taurus, 2010), 172.
[127] John Hunwick, Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Saʿdī’s Taʾrīkh al-Sūdān Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents (Leiden: Brill, 2003), lvi.
[128] Brent Singleton, “That Ye May Know Each Other”: Late Victorian Interactions between British and West African Muslims,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 29, no. 3 (2009): 374.
[129] Ibid., 376.
[130] “Sierra Leone Mohammedan in Liverpool,” Sierra Leone Weekly News, February 3, 1894, p. 5.
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[133] Richard M. Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 315.
[134] See, for example, Gabriele Marranci, “Multiculturalism, Islam and the Clash of Civilizations Theory: Rethinking Islamophobia,” Culture and Religion 5, no. 1 (2004).
[135] For a discussion on the merits and shortcomings of Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony, see T. J. Jackson Lears, “The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities,” The American Historical Review 90, no. 3 (1985): 567-593.
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[138] Becker, “Commoners in the process of Islamization,” 233.
[139] Michael Lambek, “Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority: Power and Practice on the Islamic Periphery,” American Ethnologist 17, no. 1 (February 1990): 34.
[140] Ishayahu Landa, “New Light on Early Mongol Islamisation: The Case of Arghun Aqa’s Family,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 28, no. 1 (2018): 77.
[141] Yoni Brack, “A Mongol Princess Making Hajj: The Biography of El Qutlugh Daughter of Abagha Ilkhan (r. 1265-82),” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 21, no. 3 (2011): 333.
[142] Ibid., 358-9.
[143] Ibid., 334.
[144] The exact date of Cobbold’s conversation of the Pope is not recorded, though it must have occurred before the publication of her book, Pilgrimage to Mecca, in 1934, since she mentioned it therein.
[145] Marcia Hermansen, “Roads to Mecca: Conversion Narratives of European and Euro-American Muslims,” The Muslim World 89, no. 1 (January 1999): 60.
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