With a POD not before 1300, have South East Asia develop a form of Islam which is completely different from other Islamic sects like Shi'a, Sunni etc.
AHC: Alternate form of Islam in South East asia
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I'll add more to this post when I have a computer, but the form of Sunni Islam as practiced in Java was very syncretic. For example, the first sultan of Yogyakarta, who reigned in the later 18th century - three or four centuries after the common populace of Java nearly all became Muslim - is positively likened to Wisnu (Vishnu, in Indian pronunciation), a major Hindu god, by a chronicler. The veneration of the Godess of the Southern Ocean, Ratu Kidul, and an array of other 'spirits' (quasi-divine beings who were believed to have been created by the Islamic God along with humans and reside in their own universe), was a state-sponsored enterprise under Muslim rulers. Rulers 'married' Ratu Kidul to attain the support of the spirit universe, and during the Chinese War of the 1740s, king Pakubuwana II, driven from his court, appealed to Sunan Lawu, the spirit-king of a major mountain. And the highest-ranking 'ulama of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta during the early 1800s claimed that Sultan Agung, a 17th-century Javanese king, was a virtual prophet!
The gap between Javanese Islam as practiced prior to the mid-19th century and orthodox Islam may already be sufficiently vast to meet OP's question.
E: See M. C. Ricklef's Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamization from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries.
The gap between Javanese Islam as practiced prior to the mid-19th century and orthodox Islam may already be sufficiently vast to meet OP's question.
E: See M. C. Ricklef's Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamization from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries.
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India is South Asia, China is East Asia. Mainland Southeast Asia is also known as Indochina, so...
India is South Asia, China is East Asia. Mainland Southeast Asia is also known as Indochina, so...
And "Chindia" is a neologism to refer to the two most populous Asian economies. We could perhaps add the third geography as "Chindochindia".
It would not be enough to have the Ahmadiyya sect become dominant instead of Sunnism in maritime Southeast Asia?