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Throughout history, man has endeavored to expand his beliefs across civilization quite often employing violent means to further his ideas. Islam blazed quite a trail into sub-Saharan western Africa, and it was peaceful. Abu Ubaydallah al-Bakri related vivid descriptions of eleventh-century Ghanian society. Hailing form what was then the Muslim land of al-Andalus-present day Spain- al-Bakri never witnessed the events in his tales firsthand, but those intrepid stories form 1067/1068 flawlessly depict the early history of western Sudan (pg. 387). This saga was expanded two centuries later by Abu Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, when in 1325 Ibn Battuta began reporting on his personal religion trek into the region of Mali. Unlike al-Bakri who never saw the expansion of Islam into Africa, ibn Battuta left his religious upper class home in Tangier, Morocco, to personally witness the expansion of his religion. Very noteworthy is the consistency between the lifestyles and customs of the......

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