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siam
philippines
Samudra aceh
Indian Ocean
Johore
Singapore
Palembang
Celebes Sea
celebes
Macassar
moluccas
Bangkok
Rattani
Kelantin Kedah
malay peninsula
Pahang
Malacca
champa Saigon
South China Sea
palawan
Brunei
borneo Tanjungoura
Java Sea
Denak Majapant
Contemporary Southeast Asia has one of the world’s largest Muslim populations. The region and its ethnically diverse local inhabitants were historically part of seaborne trading networks connecting China to the Indian Ocean and traders from Arabia, Persia and India to the China. Hinduism and Buddhism arrived
in the region through such trade routes, as did Islam. Islam became more prominent in the region a er the 13th century beginning in northern Sumatra. Despite contestations from Hindu-Buddhist dynasties in the region, Islam spread to Sumatra, Malaya, Borneo, Java, particularly at Demak (facing the Java Sea, shown here) from where Islam spread to the Celebes (Sulawesi) and Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
Bantam Batavia java
Tuban
Flores Sea
Panarukan
mataram
mindinao
Malacca Strait
sumatra
Karimata Strait
(opposite) Along with traders, Su s were integral to
the spread Islam in the region. As in other parts of the Muslim world, Su s o en accommodated local inhabitants’ pre- Islamic beliefs and culture, many of which were incorporated into or harmonized with Muslim practice. Shadow puppet plays (wayang), based on Hindu epics including the Ramayana and Mahabharata, remained popular even a er the adoption of Islam. This cultural tradition remains an integral part of the Southeast
Asia’s culture up until today.
australia
new guinea
southeast asia
(le ) Interior of the Sultan Mosque, Singapore, built in 1824 for Sultan Hussein Shah (d. 1835), the rst sultan of Singapore. The British East India Company made
a deal with Sutan Hussein to establish a trading post
at Singapore in 1819, which ultimately led to the Anglo- Dutch Treaty of 1824 in which the British and Dutch empires divided up Southeast Asia between them.