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Southeast asia studies Nov. 2011 - Jan. 2012

REVIEW: MAINLAND SEA

F O R L O D I H I G H S C H O O L

ISLAM OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

REVI EW: INSULAR SEA ISLAM’S ARRIVA L OF SEA

SEA REVIEW

Southeast asia studies Nov. 2011 - Jan. 2012

WHY WAS ISLAM ADOPTED?

F O R L O D I H I G H S C H O O L


WHERE WERE THE MU SLI MS FROM?

ADOPTION OF ISL AM

SPREAD OF ISLAM I N SEA

Southeast asia studies Nov. 2011 - Jan. 2012F O R L O D I H I G H S C H O O L


BRUNEI

CAMBODIA

LAOS

MALAYSIA

MALAYSIA

MYANMAR(BURMA)

PHILIPPINES

TAIWAN

CHINA

THAILAND

THAILAND

TIMOR-LESTE

VIETNAM

SINGAPORE

INDONESIABali

INDONESIA Sulawesi

INDONESIA Molucca

INDONESIASumatra

INDONESIA Kalimantan

INDONESIAJava

INDONESIAPapua

0˚ (Equator)

15˚N15˚N

30˚N

Islam

Christianity

Hinduism

Theravada Buddhism

Mahayana Buddhism

Traditional Religions

After Ninian Smart, Atlas of World Religions, 1999; and Charles Fisher, South-East Asia: A Social, Economic and Political Geography, 1964.

11. Southeast Asia: Dominant Religions, circa 2000

Questions

1. According to the presentation, from what areas of the world did Islam arrive in Southeast Asia?

2. Why did rulers of chiefs in Southeast Asia frequently adopt Islam?

3. What role did language play in the spread of Islam?

4. In what parts of Southeast Asia did Islam take to hold most successfully? Why?



TIMEL INE SH OWIN G C O NVE RSATION TO ISLAM

Using the appropriate maps, write the following locations on the timeline, indicating the time period of their conversion to Islam. Saudi Arabia is done for you.

1. Eurasia: Expansion of Islamn Syria, Oman, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, India

2. Southeast Asia: Conversion to Islamn Singapore, Java, Sumatra, Interior Malay Peninsula, Exterior Malay Peninsula, Papua

(Indonesia)

600 800 1000 1200 1500 1800

Use the map below to answer the following questions

1. Describe the kind of trade being carried on in Southeast Asia around 1500 in terms of distance and activity.

2. According to this map, what city seemed to be the trading center of Southeast Asia? What are the factors that may have contributed to this?

3. What types of products seem to have been traded throughout Southeast Asia?

4. How might trade be connected to the conversion to Islam?



Use this map to answer the following questions

1. Why do you think, given the information found on this map, that coastal travel and inter-island travel might have been so extensive?

2. According to the map, why might trade have been limited to the coastal areas?

3. How might the geographic features shown on this map have encourage or discouraged the spread of Islam?

Answer the questions

1. What are the most common language and language family spoken among the islands of Southeast Asia?

2. How did the Austronesian malay language help in the spread of Islam?

3. The Trade Links of Melaka, circa 1500 map can also be used to track the areas in which Malay would also have been spoken. Compare the maps. It should be noted that people in the interior would be less likely to know malay and less link to trade routes than people living on the coasts. How might this explain why Islam was stronger along the coasts, and why many interior groups in Indonesia remained animist (despite Christian missionaries moving into those areas and beginning to make Christian converts during the colonial period)?

Answer the questions

1. Where in Southeast Asia is Islam the predominant religion today?

2. Why do you think some areas lack significant Muslim populations while Muslim populations dominate other areas?

BRUNEI

CAMBODIA

AUSTRALIA

LAOS

MALAYSIA

MALAYSIA

MYANMAR(BURMA)

PHILIPPINES

TAIWAN

CHINA

THAILAND

THAILAND

TIMOR-LESTE

VIETNAM

SINGAPORE

INDONESIABali

INDONESIA Sulawesi

INDONESIA Molucca

INDONESIASumatra

INDONESIA Kalimantan

INDONESIAJava

INDONESIAPapua

15˚S15˚S

0˚ (Equator)

15˚N15˚N

30˚N

105˚E

120˚E

135˚E

Islam

Christianity

Hinduism

Theravada Buddhism

Mahayana Buddhism

Traditional Religions

After Ninian Smart, Atlas of World Religions, 1999; and Charles Fisher, South-East Asia: A Social, Economic and Political Geography, 1964.

11. Southeast Asia: Dominant Religions, circa 2000

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500

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