The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam

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1. Story
2. Malacca's rulers adopted Islam in the fifteenth century, and the port then became a principal node for the religion's spread across the archipelago through its trading partners. The precise date and circumstances are given differently across chronicle and scholarly sources. It is the clearest Southeast Asian case of the top-down pattern — ruler, then court, then commercial network — though how far and how fast popular practice followed is debated.
3. Knowledge
4. Islam
5. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
6. Malacca (Melaka)
7. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
8. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
9. Connections
10. Malacca (Melaka)
11. Islam
12. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
13. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
14. Islam
15. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
16. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
17. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
18. Albuquerque takes Malacca
19. SEA-ME-WE 5
20. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
21. Bukhara
22. Kashgar
23. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
24. Battle of Talas
25. Mecca (Makkah)
26. Jerusalem (Old City)
27. Malacca (Melaka)
28. The Hijra — the Muslim community's migration from Mecca to Medina
29. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
30. Construction phases of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani
31. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
32. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
33. Islam
34. Silk Road religious corridor
35. Aksum
36. Kilwa Kisiwani
37. Hinduism
38. Zoroastrianism
39. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
40. Zoroastrian migrants reach Gujarat — the Parsi settlement
41. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
42. Construction phases of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani
43. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
44. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
45. Malacca (Melaka)
46. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
47. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
48. Armenia's traditional adoption of Christianity as state religion
49. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
50. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
51. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
52. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
53. Evidence
54. 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.