HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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The Atlantic Ocean
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The Indian Ocean
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The Persian Gulf
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The savanna or sahel
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The Sahara
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Detailed explanation-1: -To reach West Africa, the religion of Islam joined the caravans of Amazigh traders. The Amazigh people were merchants who were a large part of the trans-Saharan trade. These caravans would cross the Sahara Desert to trade with the large, rich sub-Saharan empires, and they brought the religion with them.
Detailed explanation-2: -These interactions resulted in further expansion of Islam to the people living in important coastal cities in the Indian Subcontinent, China, or in the more distant South-eastern islands of modern Indonesia or Philippines.
Detailed explanation-3: -The common cultural element that bound the commercial cities of the east African coast together was use of the Bantu-based language, Swahili. Both the Kingdom of Kongo and Great Zimbabwe were examples of states based on Bantu rather than Islamic origins.
Detailed explanation-4: -Islam spread through military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries. Arab Muslim forces conquered vast territories and built imperial structures over time.