spread of Islam spans almost 1,400 years. The early Muslim conquests that occurred following the death of Muhammad in 632 CE led to the creation of the...

The spread of Islam was slow. The limited evidence that is currently known suggests that the spread of Islam accelerated in the 15th century. One of the...

introduction of Islam to Southeast and East Asia. The religion was then further spread by Sufi orders and finally consolidated by the expansion of the territories...

India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of the Muslim population. Islam spread in Indian communities along the Arab coastal trade routes...

him as leader of the Muslim community during the Rāshidūn Caliphate. The early Muslim conquests were responsible for the spread of Islam. By the 8th century...

across different parts of Bengal to spread Islam. Jalal is now a household name among Muslims in Bangladesh. The establishment of a single united Bengal...

large numbers, encouraging the spread of Islam. However, when the Portuguese arrived during the 16th century, many of these Arab traders' descendants...

political threat of the Abbasid Caliphate gone, these soon reverted to Sunni Islam - specifically, the Maliki branch, whose popularity had spread widely in the...

established the Islamic Empire. The Umayyad Caliphate continued the spread of Islam. The Islamic Golden Age was soon inaugurated by the middle of the 8th century...

Conversion to Islam is accepting Islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion. The person who converts to Islam is often referred...