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ISLAM INTO INDIA • Turks became the third carrier of the faith. The Arabs and Persians led the initial
transmission.
• Advantage of Turkish peoples as carriers of ideas?
• Initial conquest of India filled with social and cultural intolerance—Babur excerpt.
MALAWI IN INDIA • Pattern of conversion to Islam
• Status in India—challenges to Hinduism?
• Demographics
• Contrasting Islam and Hinduism
SYNCRETIC BLEND• Islam and Hinduism began to merge in India into something called “Sikhism”.
• Sikhism is based on the teachings of the blind Guru Nanak
• “There is no Hindu, and no Muslim, All are Children of God.”
• "Realization of Truth is higher than all else. Higher still is truthful living“
• Monotheistic and Revealed Faith
• “faithful warriors”
• “Sahib”
ISLAM INTO ANATOLIA• Large Christian population
• Heavy Greek influence
• Gradually eroded the once mighty Byzantine influence
• Constantinople fell after nearly 500 years of siege by the Ottoman Empire in 1453
• By 1500 90% of the region was Muslim
• Results very different from India…why?
DIFFERENCES WITH INDIA • Smaller more homogenous population than India
• Destruction of indigenous religious power in the area—Christianity
• Byzantine Orthodoxy and “Caesaropapism”.
• Caste versus non-Caste state
• Respect for Christianity and Jewish faith—tolerance.
• Role of sufi missionaries
• Benevolent roles of Islam
ISLAM INTO WEST AFRICA• Islam accompanied diverse traders—not one unified group as was the case in other
situations
• Developed without the same “orthodoxy”
• Key point was acceptance of commerce
• Political organization was welcoming to local rulers
• African Islam began to develop—unwillingness of Arab and Persians to settle the area
• Ibn Battuta
THE AL-ANDALUS• Conquered by Arab and Berber forces
• It didn’t overwhelm Christianity as it did in aging Byzantine state
• Magnificence of Cordoba “The Jewel of the World”
• “Mozarabs”
• Toleration eroded after the 10 th century
• Spain became a place known for religious intolerance (Inquisition)
• Abu Amir al-Mansur that rare historical example of intolerance—this ripped apart the Al-Andalus
• “The era of harmonious interaction between Muslim and Christians in Spain came to an end replaced by intolerance, prejudice, and mutual suspicion.”
• “Reconquista” became the goal of Europe