Islam was spread in Southeast Asia by the hopes of spreading the Muslim reglion and culture to the chinesse people. At the same time they were looking for different spices to add to there foods and with the industrial revolution taking place Southeast Asia seemed like the perfect place to settle. The environment was warm climate and the people were friendly. Also the customs weren't demanding on the new comers so they were able to settle without any problems. Before not to long the Islam community spread and it became what it is today.
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It was spread through the Muslim traders who are good models for good morals. demonstrators of the authenticity and truthfulness of Islam, and truthful and trustful.
The Muslim merchants from Arab, Persia, Gujarat, China often traveled and even settled in many Indonesian cities. They came for trade while introducing their new faith of Islam. Apparently, they were welcomed by the locals, because the locals already were believing in one God. Before Islam was established amongst Indonesian communities, Muslim traders had been present for several centuries. Two overlapping processes by which the Islamisation of Indonesia occurred: Indonesians either came into contact with Islam and converted, and/or foreign Muslim Asians (Indians, Chinese, Arabs, etc.) settled in Indonesia and mixed with local communities. Islam is thought to have been present in South East Asia from early in the Islamic era.
Islam started in Arabia, which is part of Asia. It did not have to spread anywhere to get to Asia.
shia: prophet Mohammad wrote several letters to the kings of that time and invited them to Islam. adding to the greatness of the massage of Islam that is like a light in the darkness. the merchants had role in this regard too.
"Turkish speaking Muslims from Central Asia"
or, as the original answer states:
"Muslim merchants
how did Asia get Islam"
By the preachers and traders who came to India. The Sufis played the key role in spreading Islam in India.
India, Africa and Southeast asia
Sufi mystics
Islam spread to the island of southeast Asia through traders and merchants. Many of the city states in Malaysia and west Indonesia had a strong maritime trading orientation and as a result, accommodated many Muslim merchants from Arabia, India, and the East African coast. As a result, the ideas of Islam became incorporated in those areas, supplanting the previous Buddhism. In the rest of Southeast Asia, such as Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, and Vietnam, the orientation was much more inland and river-based trade, meaning that Islam did not have the same inroads and access.
Muslim merchants set up trading posts throughout southeast Asia and taught Islam to people there.
Islam
Islamic and Hindu culture fused under the Delhi sultanate. Arabs brought Islam into Iran and Afghanistan. Islam was firmly established in the island areas of Southeast Asia. The Ghaznavid Empire launched raids into India.
The Middle Ages were already under way when Islam began to spread in Arabia. It spread to Persia and Palestine. Then it spread into India, across North Africa, into other parts of Africa, to Asia Minor, to Central Asia, Southeast Asia, to Spain, Sicily, Southern Italy, the Balkans, the Philippines, and Indonesia. There is a link below.
The Minangukabau
Some of the regions where Islam spread include the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Middle East, Persia (modern-day Iran), Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of Southeast Asia.
Throughout southeast Asia.
Islam originally began in the Arabian Peninsula, then by trading and traveling and the big Islamic empires spread all over southeast Asia, Africa, some parts or Europe and etc..
Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism, Animism, and Ancestor Worship are all practiced in Southeast Asia.