Thread by @Jawnmard1

It was also through Sufism that Islam spread in Indonesia, brought to the region by Muslim traders from Persia and the Hijaz (the desert region now known as Saudi Arabia that includes Mecca and Medina).
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From still extant tombstones and also Chinese documentation we witness the first waves of Islam arriving in northern Sumatra and Java as early as the late seventh century C.E.
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Indonesians, who seem to have a natural tendency toward mysticism, readily welcomed the Sufi understanding of Islam. The Hindu and Buddhist rulers of that era seemed tolerant to the Sufi teachings of love and asceticism that had penetrated
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the mystic-minded royal courts, while the Sufi teaching of equality of all human beings before Allah had absorbed the commoners who were placed low in the caste-system of the Hindu kingdoms.
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Camille Helminski
Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure

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