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Book: Muslim Identities

Chapter: 4. The Spread of Islam Beyond the Arabian Peninsula

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.43101

Blurb:

The chapter begins with the death of Muhammad and some of the early growing pains facing the young community. It gives details of the first four caliphs (al-rashidun), and then the subsequent creation of an Islamic empire that spread from Morocco in the West to India in the East. How did Islam spread? Who was responsible for this spread?

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