HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
Question
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Islamic teachers attempted to eradicate the animist indigenous religions of Africa.
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Because both indigenous African religion and Islam were monotheistic, the two became inextricably intertwined.
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Islam was able to accommodate pagan practices and beliefs in the early stages of conversion
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Islam successfully overcame indigenous religious beliefs, and almost all Africans converted to Islam.
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Islam was less flexible than Christianity in accepting the styles and forms of native worship
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Detailed explanation-1: -Islam promoted trade between West Africa and the Mediterranean. The religion developed and widened the trans-Saharan Caravan trade. The trade enriched the West African and the Muslim traders. Muslims from North Africa came in their numbers and settled in the commercial centres.
Detailed explanation-2: -Islam facilitated long distance trade by offering useful sets of tools for merchants including contract law, credit, and information networks. Muslim merchant-scholars also played an important role in non-Muslim kingdoms as advisors and scribes in Ghana.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Christianity is now one of the most widely practiced religions in Africa along with Islam and is the largest religion in Sub-Saharan Africa.