History Of Islam In Malaysia

International islamic university malaysia jalan gombak 53110 kuala lumpur malaysia abstract.

History of islam in malaysia. 878 islam was embraced by people along the coast of peninsular malaysia including the port of kelang which was a well known trading centre. Around the year 1390 a prince from java parameswara was forced to flee his homeland. Nazeer ahmed phd sandwiched between the island of sumatra and the malay peninsula the strait of malacca is the artery for commerce between china japan india arabia and east africa. Islam was introduced by traders arriving from arabia china and the indian.

From the 13th through the 17th century sunni islam carried chiefly by arab and indian merchants spread widely through peninsular and insular southeast asia. Islam in malaysia is represented by the shafi i version of sunni theology and jurisprudence while defining malaysia constitutionally a secular state. Nazeer ahmed phd wrote in the encyclopedia of islamic history. The spread of islam to the malay world a term used to refer to the majority of malay muslim dominated nations such as indonesia malaysia brunei and the minority malay muslim population of vietnam.

Islam has maintained its presence in malaysia for over a millennium giving rise to highly pluralized and complex communities. In this richly textured portrait khairudin aljunied explores the overlapping waves of islamization and conversion in malaysia across ten centuries through the hindu buddhist period the age of muslim kingdoms the colonial interregnum and the contemporary era. Malaysia introduction of islam into contributed by prof. The new religion offered equal opportunity social advancement through spiritual devotion which ultimately challenged but did not entirely eliminate the power of the traditional elites.

The islam in malaysia was influenced by previous religions and was originally not orthodox. The islam in malaysia was influenced by previous religions and was originally not orthodox. Before the coming of islam the indigenous malays embraced an ancient religion with various forms of belief with some of the population belonging to the hindu buddha religion. Nazeer ahmed phd wrote in the encyclopedia of islamic history.

Around the year 1390 a prince from java parameswara was forced to flee his homeland. Malaysia is a country whose most professed religion is islam as of 2013 there were approximately 19 5 million muslim adherents or 61 3 of the population.