Typically, Arab merchants spread goods from place to place. (That's what merchants do.) However, merchants also facilitate cultural diffusion which allows for religions to move between countries. It was through Arab merchants that Islam disseminated through West Africa, East Africa, and much of Indonesia.
Arab merchants
the role of the merchants was to travel and bring goods to their cities
it was gold
in caravans
They were an important and respected class of people.
Arab merchants
the role of the merchants was to travel and bring goods to their cities
it was gold
in caravans
Indian merchants spread Hinduism to the Pacific and South East Asia in the first millennium. When the merchants settled in these regions, they brought priests who were instrumental in the spread of Hinduism.
The biggest source for spreading Arabic in India were the Muslims who migrated from the Arab countries or Arab merchants who used to travel to India and who had established relationships with local Indians and there are many institutes in Pakistan nowadays which are propagating Arabic language as I had seen through merapakistan.com that there are many sites which explain the history of spread of Arabic in India.
what two empires continued to spread Islam after the Arab Empire collapsed?
Islam spread to all corners of the Arab World: North Africa, the Upper Middle East, and Arabia.
Islam spread to North Africa through conquest and trade with Arab merchants. The Arabic language was introduced and adopted as the language of administration and religion due to the influence of Arab rulers and scholars. Over time, Arabic became the dominant language in the region.
Camels
They were an important and respected class of people.
They were an important and respected class of people.