I am reading about Islam in India. The wiki article states it was initially spread through trade, and Islam is now the second largest religion in India. But how? How does trade influence the spread of religion? Did these early traders talk about religion and the Indian traders like it better than theirs? Or did they get deals with Islamic traders?
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A lot of answers are saying that traders established what amounts to trade factorías in other countries, which is understandable. However, what I don’t understand is these are temporary immigrants. Why is it that these temporary immigrants were able to get Islam to become the 2nd most dominant religion in India? Why weren’t these temporary immigrants adopting their host country’s culture instead? Possibly making the Middle East more Hindu, as was Indonesia prior to the Muslim trading conversions.
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