SAQ - Islam and Cultural Encounter From the text:: Perhaps the most significant sign of a flourishing Islamic civilization was the
continued spread of the religions both within and beyond the boundaries of a vanishing Arab
Empire, although that process differed considerably from place to place. The examples of
India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain illustrate the various ways that Islam penetrated these
societies as well as the raterh different outcomes of these epic cultural encounters.
1. Identify and explain a similar characteristic in the penetration of Islam shared by two
of the societies listed above.