Discuss the importance of Islamic conversion in Africa and Asia as a unifying factor. Did the method of conversion make a significant difference? How did conversion affect the population?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Students should be able to discuss how the spread of Islam helped create a commonwealth or community across areas as seemingly un-similar as Africa and Asia. Students should see that this commonality allowed for the spread of trade, travel, education, and technology, as well as (for example, in India) some degree of social hierarchy. They should be able to discuss the suppression of indigenous religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism in Asia and the enslavement of non-Islamic peoples, and contrast that to the relatively peaceful conversion process south of the Sahara. Finally, students should be able to use Battuta's observations to establish that the cohesion provided by similarity of religion did not equate to universality of culture, as Battuta noted some details of other cultures with disapproval or even shock.
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