1. Spread of Islam

2. Sufi movement within Islam incorporated mysticism with a trend toward evangelism
Less emphasis on strict interpretation of traditional texts and laws
Emphasized emotional religious experience
Healer

3. Ulama Stressed restrictive conservatism with Islam
Especially with religious schools
Especially concerning scientific inquiry
Emphasized strict interpretation of laws and religious text

4. 1258 Baghdad invaded by Mongols Political center will change
Baghdad will take a back seat to
Cairo in the East
Istanbul to the North

5. Trade Master of vast trading network
Abbasid Muslim traders will reestablish trade routes after fall of the Roman and Han empires
With the collapse of the Abbasid dynasty- Egypt will become center of trade.

6. Desire to protect trading interests was the excuse of the initial move into India during the Umayyad dynasty

7. South Asia (India)
Will first move into India when pirates attack and threaten Arab trade.
At first only along coast
Brought little change
Religious toleration
Local officials retain titles
Status of Brahman caste respected
Arabs lived apart
Little attempt at first of conversion
Hindus and Muslim will have conflict
Hindus use to nomadic invaders who stay assimilate
Muslims first to bring in religion and did not want to change or assimilate

8. Difference between Islam invasion of India and others
First time India will have a large scale group of invaders whose civilization is as sophisticated as their own

9. Islam will be introduced to India through
Merchants
Sufi mystics
Carry message of Islam during a time when Buddhism had decline
Trend toward evangelism
Appeal to lower caste because of egalitarian

10. Delhi Sultanate Delphi Sultanate
Under Mahmud Ghazi will move into interior defeat the disorganized Hindus
Established their kingdom in Delphi under rule of a Sultan
Delphi Sultanate
Islam will spread throughout much of northern India for 200 years.
Many Hindus will hold on to their beliefs
Sultan offended and will do best to convert
Non Muslims had to pay a tax
Also Sultans capable of religiously motivate destruction

11. New Muslim rulers remained largely separated from Hindu subjects
Hindus worked in administrative but lived apart from their rulers
Social prejudice- found in caste system infiltrated Islam in India
Arabs considered “high caste”
Muslim rulers violated the Quran by claiming to be of divine descent

12. Islam will not be as accepted in India as it was in other areas.
Will treat Hindus and Buddhists as dhimmis- people of the book
India will not convert to Islam in large numbers.
Hindu will respond to Muslims by placing greater emphasis on devotional cults

13. In India, Muslims will Adopt the social stratification of Hindu castes
Attitudes toward women
Practices of Hindu rulers
Taste for India food and games

14. Differences between Hindus and Muslims
Gods
Polytheism
Monotheism
Social System
Caste system
All equal under God
Cow
Sacred animal
food
Beliefs
Universal & exclusive
Tolerant of other beliefs and even mixed with other beliefs
Overall
Socially more restrictive
Religiously more restrictive

15. Islam will stress egalitarianism of all believers
Hinduism embraced the caste social system

16. Despite difference between Hindus an Islamic cultures, amazing amount of progress under Sultans
Colleges
Irrigation systems improved
Mosques built with aid of Hindu architect & artists
Many will convert-
some genuine, some because it may life easier
More will convert to Islam in Northern India than in Southern India where a vast majority will continue Hindus customs

17. Indian Influences on Islamic Civilization
Indian Learning
Hindu mathematics- algebra /geometry
Use of numerals of Hindu scholars
Medicine to music
Physicians brought to Baghdad
Arabian Nights tales may be based on Indian stories
Game of chess

18. Timur the Lame Mongols will under Timur the Lane will invade India
Will destroyed just about everything in sight
Massacred thousands
Just as quickly swept out
The sultanate was destroyed but will eventually be restored
Islam had continued to grow in India next few centuries under Mogul Empire, even Hindu hung to their beliefs
Timur the Lame

19. Southeast Asia Islam spread from In Southeast Asia
commercial contacts and conversions than from military victories
Sufi mystics and traders carried Islam to port cities in southeast Asia. From which spreads to other regions
In Southeast Asia
New Faith did not gain widespread popularity in strong Buddhist and Hindu areas.
Did not make headway in areas away from the coast
Islands of Indian Ocean were receptive to new faith
Familiar with Islam from trading contacts
Buddhism and Hinduism will remain popular but Islam will establish a stronghold in Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines