Islam is the dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh and Afghanistan). Pakistan, which later split into Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1971, emerging as the primary Islamic country in the region. Pew Research Center – Global Religious Landscape 2010 – religious composition by country Archived 5 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Through travel to Arab countries – for the Hajj-pilgrimage or religious study – Muslims in Southeast Asia have also undertaken the translation of Islamic texts into local languages. The division of countries during colonialism divided some ethnic and religious groups, leading to several minority Muslim populations to live at the periphery of countries. Southeast Asia has rich and poor countries and this differences are reflected when wealthy people from Singapore and Brunei staying in comfortable hotels near the main mosque while Cambodians reported staying on the floor of a single room shared by 45 people in a dormitory two miles away. According to this theory the universe came into being at a single point some 10 to 20 billion years ago. The first two months seemed fine as a fitting break from 30 years of working, but by the third month, depression crept in when rejections from job applications started to pile up.

Richard M. Eaton has described the significance of this in the context of West Punjab and East Bengal, the two main areas to develop Muslim majorities. Scientists, philosophers and educators have developed techniques and in recent times used sophisticated equipment to break into new grounds to answer questions in areas that seemed mysterious. Love will always be the answer. All of this he has done in accordance with a prophecy divined through precognition that will establish an enforced peace preventing humanity from destroying itself through aggressive behavior. Islam is the second-largest religion in South Asia, with more than 650 million Muslims living there, forming about one-third of the region’s population. The auction house originally estimated its value to be between $1 million and $1.5 million. As the Hajj became more popular throughout Southeast Asia, Arabic and the Arabian brand of Islam were integrated further into the lives of Muslims in Southeast Asia. The actual homeland of this Iris is probably the Arabian Peninsula; it was disseminated during the wave of Islam expansion over Africa and South West Europe, carried along to be planted on graves of former Muslim warriors. The Muslim population in India is 14.12%, which still makes it the largest Muslim population outside the Muslim-majority countries.

The 1947 partition was eventually made possible because of the concentration of Muslim majorities in northwest and northeast India. There is a history in some countries of persecution of Muslims, including the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar or the long struggle of the Muslim Moro. According to Historians Henry Miers Elliot and John Dowson in their book The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, the first ship bearing Muslim travelers was seen on the Indian coast as early as 630 CE. Historicaly, the Barwada Mosque in Ghogha, Gujarat built before 623 CE, Cheraman Juma Mosque (629 CE) in Methala, Kerala and Palaiya Jumma Palli (630 CE) in Kilakarai, Tamil Nadu are three of the first mosques in South Asia. The first Indian mosque is thought to have been built in 629 CE, purportedly at the behest of an unknown Chera dynasty ruler, during the lifetime of Muhammad (c. It was, however, the subsequent expansion of the Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent over the next millennia that established Islam in the region. Islamic influence first came to be felt in the Indian subcontinent during the early 7th century with the advent of Arab traders.

According to Qissat Shakarwati Farmad, the Masjids at Kodungallur, Kollam, Madayi, Barkur, Mangalore, Kasaragod, Kannur, Dharmadam, Panthalayini, and Chaliyam, were built during the era of Malik Dinar, and they are among the oldest Masjids (mosques) in the Indian Subcontinent. 571-632) in Kodungallur, in district of Thrissur, Kerala by Malik Bin Deenar. Native legends say that a group of Sahaba, under Malik Ibn Deenar, arrived on the Malabar Coast and preached Islam. According to Derryl N. Maclean, a link between Sindh and early partisans of Ali or proto-Shi’ites can be traced to Hakim ibn Jabalah al-Abdi, who traveled across Sind to Makran in the year 649AD and presented a report on the area to the Caliph. In as much as they are in my geographical area. Jefferson was equally dismissive of Calvinism and predestination, or the belief that all men and women are fated from birth to be saved or damned. Cornell professor Eric Tagliacozzo interviewed Muslim Southeast Asians Hajj pilgrims, he reported that most respondents said there was no racism and ethnocentrism in Mecca but some reported that Southeast Asian women reported feeling “physically smaller” and “pushed around” by people from all over the world including Tanzanians, Chechens, Afghans and Nigerians while circumambulating the Kaabah.