WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The spread of Islam in Africa began in the 7th to 9th century, brought to North Africa initially under the Umayyad Dynasty. Extensive trade networks throughout North and West Africa created a medium through which Islam spread peacefully, initially through the merchant class.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to Arab oral tradition, Islam first came to Africa with Muslim refugees fleeing persecution in the Arab peninsula. This was followed by a military invasion, some seven years after the death of the prophet Mohammed in 639, under the command of the Muslim Arab General, Amr ibn al-Asi.

Detailed explanation-3: -Islam spread through Africa on the backs of merchant trade routes and militaristic expansion. It began, however, in the small town of Mecca in what is now Saudi Arabia. The Prophet Muhammad began spreading the teachings of Islam in 610 CE.

Detailed explanation-4: -Following the conquest of North Africa by Muslim Arabs in the 7th century CE, Islam spread throughout West Africa via merchants, traders, scholars, and missionaries, that is largely through peaceful means whereby African rulers either tolerated the religion or converted to it themselves.

Detailed explanation-5: -By conquest and conversion, the new religion spread quickly westwards through the territories of the Byzantine empire. By the 640s, Muslim forces were advancing across North Africa, conquering Sicily in 652 and the Iberian Peninsula in 711.

Detailed explanation-6: -Soon after the death of the prophet Muhammad, there were military expeditions, called “futuhat, ‘’ or literally “openings, ‘’ into what is now Egypt and other parts of North Africa. In other parts of the world, Islam spread through trade and commerce.