Arab efforts to spread Islam in western Sudan

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
90-103

Abstract

The entry of the Islamic religion to Africa is one of the important events in its history, and what distinguished Muslims from other expatriates in the eyes of Africans was that Muslims were the bearers of a message based on his saying, "There is no merit for an Arab over a non-Arab but with piety and righteous deeds." Between Arab Africa and western black Africa, a barrier stands in the way of Arab Muslim activity in the fulfillment of their civilizing humanitarian mission. Africa knew Islam for the first time during the Prophets mission that preceded the migration, when the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him) advised Muslims to disperse on the earth after they had experienced harm, torture and murder from the Quraysh. When they asked him where to go, he advised them to go to Abyssinia because there is no king in it. Nobody wronged him, and the spread of Islam in West Africa was not linked to a single factor, but there were various factors, multiple roles and various sects to which the merit after God Almighty was to be attributed to the spread of Islam, and I will try to touch upon the most important axes that helped spread Islam in Sudan. And the role of the Mashraqa and Moroccans in that.

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Sultan Al Yuzbaki, T., & توفیق. (2025). Arab efforts to spread Islam in western Sudan. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 31(34), 90–103. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2001.166780