Malacca (Melaka)

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1. Story
2. A port on the strait that carries traffic between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, founded around 1400 and rapidly dominant in regional trade. Its ruling house adopted Islam in the fifteenth century, and Malacca then functioned as a distribution point for Islam across the archipelago through the ports that traded with it. The case is a well-documented example of top-down adoption: the ruler converts, the court follows, and the commercial advantage of sharing a legal and credit framework with Muslim merchants propagates the change outward. Historians disagree about how far conversion at the level of the general population followed, and how quickly.
3. Knowledge
4. Islam
5. Malacca (Melaka)
6. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
7. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
8. Connections
9. Islam
10. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
11. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
12. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
13. Albuquerque takes Malacca
14. SEA-ME-WE 5
15. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
16. Bukhara
17. Kashgar
18. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
19. Battle of Talas
20. Mecca (Makkah)
21. Jerusalem (Old City)
22. Malacca (Melaka)
23. The Hijra — the Muslim community's migration from Mecca to Medina
24. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
25. Construction phases of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani
26. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
27. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
28. Malacca (Melaka)
29. Albuquerque takes Malacca
30. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
31. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
32. The Treaty of Zaragoza settles the Moluccas by sale
33. Malacca (Melaka)
34. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
35. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
36. Armenia's traditional adoption of Christianity as state religion
37. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
38. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
39. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
40. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
41. Evidence
42. Islam spread in Southeast Asia between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries largely through port-city trade and elite adoption, mediated substantially by Sufi networks; the origins of the earliest Muslim merchants are disputed between Hadhrami tradition and material evidence pointing to Gujarat and Malabar, and the extent of top-down versus popular conversion remains debated.