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IOTL, while the bulk of South East Asia managed to convert to Islam, it seems that the trend was confined to the maritime, and pretty much exclusively Austronesian portion of the region. The wave of Islamization pretty much never run through Indochina for once. With the exception of the Chams, which are Austronesians, the whole Indo-Chinese region managed to remain generally Hindu-Buddhist. The reason behind it can be deduced rather easily though. Unlike the whole Malay archipelago, it wasn't directly exposed to the major global trade veins. And arguably we can also count its proximity to China as a crucial contributing factor behind the absence of Islamization of the region, considering the previous success of Indian cultural osmosis sipping into the region when China was much less of a factor there....
Regardless, I'm still curious about the region's prospect to undergo Islamization much like how Malay archipelago did. Is there any way to make it happen despite of the factors assumed behind its absence IOTL as mentioned in the previous paragraph ? Preferably without having the region linguistically absorbed into Austronesian sphere, since the mental picture of muslim Thais kinda looks nice